Hmm... Shoes and other physical products are significantly different
from ideas and information. The question now is: which is music? In
the mid-20th-century, a bunch of people turned music into a physical
product and started the whole ball rolling to where we are now. But
before that, and especially pre-20th century, music and ideas were a
*heckuva* lot more free-flowing. The further back in time you go,
the more free-flowing they were, AFAIK.
MP3s, or more generally, computers, change music back into
information. Digitalization of music is eroding the image of music
as a physical thing that you own. I, for one, think I am in favor of
it. Check out this:
http://danny.oz.au/free-software/advocacy/against_IP.html
It was posted to this list a few days ago. Perhaps not perfect, but
an interesting read nonetheless. Made me think.
-adam
On 1 Aug 2000 11:19:12 -0000, idm-digest-help@hyperreal.org wrote:
quoted 20 lines Date: Mon, 31 Jul 2000 21:02:58 +0100
>Date: Mon, 31 Jul 2000 21:02:58 +0100
>From: Wendy K <wendy@ninjatune.net>
>
>yeah, and you wouldnt just loan some body your favourite pair of
>nikes, addidas, vans, whatevers when they came up & asked you
>would you? trainers? - what about jeans? why are levis charging
>$100 for jeans they made 50 years ago? (well someone from japan
>could probably answer that one...)
>
>At 6:47 pm +0100 31/7/00, Jeff Waye/Ninja Tune wrote:
>>been through it before, the manufactured cost of a record/CD is not the
>>only cost to a record company. Yeah major labels suck and the
>>dispursement of profit is ridicously, but that's not my fault and there's
>>so much info out their these days that I can't feel sorry for anyone
>>finding themselves in a bad deal. People regularly pay $100 for a pair of
>>shoes with no problems, what do you think the real cost of those is.
>>Boycott Nike for not giving their shoes away! Bloody mafia those shoe
>>companies I tell ya.
>>
>>Jeff
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