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Poll: Music Sharing or Stealing
TheGreatPoo:
I'm with flap but I'd like to add one thing:
Distributing music over P2P networks is NOT stealing. You can call it sharing but I like to call it free advertisement. It's a very powerful advertizing medium for artists to get their name out there without distribution costs, television airtime, radio airtime, or publication costs.
HibbeeBoy:
quote:Originally posted by TheGreatPoo: Mac Commando:
I'm with flap but I'd like to add one thing:
Distributing music over P2P networks is NOT stealing. You can call it sharing but I like to call it free advertisement. It's a very powerful advertizing medium for artists to get their name out there without distribution costs, television airtime, radio airtime, or publication costs.
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I'm sure some lame assed garage bands that are not signed to a record deal will agree with you. As a commodity, their music is not worth anything. It's the established acts (and their record companies) that are having the problem with the free distribution of the music. So, if you didn't buy the music and obtained it by "sharing", then you are effectively stealing the music.
Pissed_Macman:
Sharing.
The computer and the internet are changing the way people do business and those who do not adapt will become extinct.
flap:
quote:Originally posted by HibbeeBoy:
I'm sure some lame assed garage bands that are not signed to a record deal will agree with you. As a commodity, their music is not worth anything. It's the established acts (and their record companies) that are having the problem with the free distribution of the music. So, if you didn't buy the music and obtained it by "sharing", then you are effectively stealing the music.
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Just because they "won't agree with you" it doesn't mean they're correct. That cartoon is pretty much right though. Bands/aritsts have been told by their labels that file sharing is a threat to their livelihoods, and they buy it. Actually, the real threat to them is the parasitic record labels themselves who treat their artists like shit and give them next to nothing. Do you realise how little artists make from CD sales?
HibbeeBoy:
quote:Originally posted by flap:
Just because they "won't agree with you" it doesn't mean they're correct. That cartoon is pretty much right though. Bands/aritsts have been told by their labels that file sharing is a threat to their livelihoods, and they buy it. Actually, the real threat to them is the parasitic record labels themselves who treat their artists like shit and give them next to nothing. Do you realise how little artists make from CD sales?
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Who won't agree with me ?
I don't see Michael Jackson begging/busking in the streets. I don't really see what your point is either. The record industry is getting a long overdue kick in the gonads and I'm happy to see that. At the same time, I still support the artists right to determine how their music is copyright protected, distributed and still receive compensation for their work.
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