John Reading said:
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>> From: Jeff/Ninja Tune [mailto:jeff@ninjatune.net]
>> 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.
>>
>>
>
> Exactly...All the entitlement issues people seem to have also gets my
> goat, like it's their god-given right to acquire music for free.
> Really, really pisses me off.
I rarely download music, and when I do, it's only when I'm unsure about a
release I'm considering buying.
I wouldn't download anything if I could listen to something before i buy it.
One of the things that sold me on early idm purchases of mine ("Stay Down,"
"music has the right to children") were the 2 minute samples up on Warp's
site. Of course, not every label has the means to do such a thing, but I
think it's rather short sighted for anyone to assume people should just buy
an album of music for enjoyment without knowing if they enjoy it. Music is
the only medium I can think of where you're forced to buy something whose
only purpose is personal enjoyment without even the option of sampling a
small portion -- at least with movies, you can rent them from somewhere first
for cheap, or download trailers for free.
I've never been one to say that mp3's are the consumer's right to have, or
that downloading full albums and listening to them all the time to the
exclusion of owning the actual album is right, but they certainly can have a
purpose that labels can use to their advantage in their current form.
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