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From:
John Reading
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Wed, 12 Mar 2003 12:29:30 -0500
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RE: [idm] Indie Ethics
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quoted 10 lines -----Original Message-----> -----Original Message----- > From: pixilated [mailto:pixilated@Alum.Dartmouth.ORG] > > No. Records cost money because records cost you money to produce. It > costs you nothing if someone somehow replicates the music that is > produced when that record is played. The product you are selling when > you sell a record is a RECORD. The "music" isn't even on > there; it is in > the air and in your brain when you play it on a turntable. Otherwise > it's just grooves on vinyl.
sophistry.
quoted 5 lines What I am saying is that it seems strange> What I am saying is that it seems strange > that you could claim sole ownership of the vibrations in the > air that I > experience as music. >
Who claiming this? Entitlement issues with free mp3s has nothing to do with this. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: idm-unsubscribe@hyperreal.org For additional commands, e-mail: idm-help@hyperreal.org