we give them away for free to be broadcast for promotional purpose. Much
like we can put free MP3's into circulation at our discretion. It should be
noted that there is an income stream for radio play. There is some confusion
that somehow I'm implying that we should own and get paid for the fact that
our music gets broadcast and that people should pay if they hear Amon coming
from their neighbours window. I never implied that. I'm simply stating
there's a big difference between hearing a track on the radio or via other
means, and actually having a reproduction of said track sitting on a
hard-drive.
I have to re-state again that we at Ninja Tune don't take a particularly
hard stance once way or the other, it just irks me that people try and take
some moral high-ground on what at the end of the day really is piracy. I
shoplifted all sorts of shit when I was young and never felt really bad
about it, but I never tried to pass it off as a cultural revolution.
All I'm saying is that it should be up to the people that own and/or created
the work as to how they want it to circulate.
Jeff
quoted 27 lines From: EggyToast <eggy@eggtastic.com>> From: EggyToast <eggy@eggtastic.com>
> Date: Tue, 11 Mar 2003 19:03:10 -0500
> To: idm@hyperreal.org
> Subject: Re: [idm] Indie Ethics
>
> At 05:41 PM 3/11/2003 -0500, you wrote:
>
>
>> Look the way I see it, if someone spends money to create something and they
>> put it in the marketplace to profit from that creation then anything that
>> doesn't involve the exchange of money for it qualifies as a form of
>> stealing. If they wanted to give it away for free then it should be their
>> choice as to whether they want to do so, not arbitrarily decided by people
>> with access to the ability to do so.
>
> How does that work for promo CD's? Those are given away for free. Radio
> CD's? Free. They're expected to be played for hundreds (thousands if it's
> a popular group) of people at no cost to the people.
>
> derek
>
>
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