Reading over this, I am ashaimed at how robotic I
sound. Sorry in advance.....
Generally speaking, about everything I've bought over
the last three years I've downloaded first. I usually
do keep a backup copy of most of what I buy.
If you want a hard core "ethical" response: I feel
there is nothing ethically wrong with someone
downloading an album provided it doesn't influence the
support they would or would not have given to the
production of the work. I also tend to believe it is
wrong to assume, at face value, that anyone
downloading an album is stealing. To me,
uh....philosophically speaking, borrowing a friends CD
and downloading a digital representation of the music
contained on that CD can be of equal ethical weight
provided that (a) the borrower does not make a
duplicate of the work in place of paying for the work
before returning the album; (b) the downloader does
not keep the mp3s in place of paying for the work, and
(c) unless the work was purchased, the downloader must
delete the files within a reasonable period of time.
The common strain you'll notice with all of my
statements is that the decisions are all local to the
consumer, which is a major threat to the strictly
"business interested" - which you'll notice if you
explore the massive lawsuits the RIAA has produced,
which in my opinion are highly unethical as, (1) as
far as I'm aware based on what I've read about their
conduct, there is no mechanism in their process to
ensure they're not targeting what I've called group c,
not to mention that members of this group also might
own the work and as far as sharing with others; (2)
the guilt should not rest on the "sharer" as by the
nature of the exchange of peer to peer property there
is no way to possibly know if the downloader will
treat the intellectual property in good faith; and (3)
the amounts of money they are seeking are entirely off
base as, concerning intellectual property, the loss of
capitol is not directly related to the experience of
downloading as there is no way an outside party can
possibly know if the downloader was intending to buy
the product to begin with.
The most difficult thing are cases where only half the
the tracks are great and the other half aren't worth
it. I wouldn't buy the release as a whole, but I
would also not want to give the other music up. In
the past, I did act in an "unethical" fashion in that
I did keep the tracks I liked as there was no
alternative. On the upside, more and more options are
available to counter this. With bleep.com for
example, there is no reasonable way anyone couldn't
support them based on their attraction to only one or
two great tracks. You can buy the one or two great
tracks, or 8 of 15 or 14 of 15.
The bottom line, I don't believe that intellectual
property and capitalism fit together firmly. There is
a sort of fuzzy relationship, but the success of that
relationship over the course of major technological
advances was largely due to strict (and in the case of
the RIAA lawsuits - insanely heavy handed) laws to
offset the natural urge to explore what is available.
At the heart of it all I don't think any method which
requires excessive laws and regulations is healthy.
Is it practical? No. Is it "fair"? Not really. It
is reality? I think so. Will some more open
alternative work in fairness to everyone? I believe
eventually, yes. Certainly not in this climate
though.
Also, I tend to like vinyl, and as far as I know, you
can't p2p that.
Brandon
quoted 31 lines certainly it makes sense to share robin williams
> certainly it makes sense to share robin williams
> albums ;-) - but does it
> make sense to share to the max - for instance - low
> res albums, without
> having the slightest will to at least sort of donate
> what we have to a small
> artist like him? luckily i meet more and more people
> who are willing to
> support their own unkown artists. so it seems that
> there might be a time of
> conciously wanted balance comin gup. at least i hope
> so.
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> correct me and discuss me, please - i#d be very
> interested in list members'
> thoughts about this.
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> jayrope |?berlin
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> Best greets from Berlin!
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