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Would be interested to know what people think I did wrong or how I should have handled it differently.
B. An album downloaded is not an album stolen. (I think this is a point you made very well) but what is not mentioned enough is the fact that people who download more buy more and by marginalizing downloaders record companies are marginalizing their best customers.
I don't think this is a fact, in the sense that I don't think it's true. There are loads of people who download AND buy loads, and loads of people who download loads and buy fuck all.
and there's people who download fuck all and buy loads.
Yeah I should have mentioned those people, 50 Quid man et al. My point was that downloading doesn't stimulate sales.
If they really locked down the internet they could force payment for copyrighted materials again. I dunno if that'll ever happen but it is interesting that copyright holders in Ireland and several countries are going after the ISPs. It'll be very interesting to see what the effects of these rounds of litigation are. If stuff like Echelon got advanced enough it could monitor every bit sent over the net maybe.
i download buttloads of music and i can't remember the last time i paid for a hard copy of music (i think it might have been a 7" of shetland fiddle music about 2 years ago which i've never heard because i have no record player). CDs depress me and my record player is at home in dublin. i wouldn't bother buying a cd if i have the mp3s. it's great.
but, thinking about it in terms of music representing work, it's pretty unfair. for example i'd definitely pay even what seemed a slightly steep price for a record or gig of a DIY band i know and like because i know the money goes straight to them and more tours and more releases. the issue is clouded by the fact that so much of the earnings from sold music go to record labels etc...clearly the solution is to kill all record execs and mince their lawyers into release party sausages.
used to, got caught and lost the nerve thoughIn fairness, where the money goes and who gets it is none of your business.
I take it you pay for food? You know the farmer gets a minute percentage of the price you pay. Gonna start nicking all your food now?
used to, got caught and lost the nerve though
if it's none of my business, it's none of yours, so why get your balls in a tangle over who pays or doesn't?
i think you'll find where my money goes is entirely my business.
so where do we stand on secondhand music then? in pre-P2P times most of the music i bought was secondhand and i'd imagine a lot of you were the same. much cheaper, and no profit passed on to the artist. let's all flagellate ourselves in shame.
won't somebody think of the artists! the lost revenue! oh, the humanity!
If stuff like Echelon got advanced enough it could monitor every bit sent over the net maybe.
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