RE: [microsound] industry loses big

["jan.l" <jl@xxxxxxx>]

And since banks no doubt are robbing money from their customers makes it
perfectly o.k. to go buy a gun from a guy in some alley and start robbing banks.

Actually there are groups that do just this. Mayne you should join?

You may claim you dont like the copyright laws and that makes piracy o.k. I
might declare I beleive that private property are wrong and take your laptop and
it would be equally o.k.

Actually the copyright laws are there to protect the artist. It makes sure that
Dow Chemical cannot use my music in their ads or presentation material. It makes
sure that CNN cannot use your music without your permission etc. Of course you
might sell the rights to your music to Sony Music and let them decide.

It may be so that that this cannot be stopped. What will happen then is not that
you'll get your happy Napster-days back again. What will happen is that the
corporations will use the situation to their advantage since the copyright laws
will then be useless and *anyone* (and that includes Sony, Warner and Microsoft)
can just disregard them and make a buck out of whatever they feel like without
any permissions or royalties.

If it was o.k. to rob banks or just take your laptop do you even for a moment
doubt that Microsoft would create an armed bankrobbing division?

A better way to do might be to go along with the corporations and let them
strengthen the laws as much as they can and then use it to your advantage and
protection by building your own networked distribution system they cannot abuse.

On 03-01-21 hellomynameisphil@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx (ph!L @ c e n t i b e l) wrote:

>"when people talk about 'pirates', we should remember that the music
>industry is the biggest pirate of all, and has been from the very
>beginning. Who created the possibility of duplicating and distributing
>music, if not the record industry itself? You will find the same thing
>happening at each stage of the technology's evolutionary development -
>the record industry shoots itself in the foot. One arm is producing
>music and complaining that technology is making it easier to steal that
>music, while the other arm is producing the very technology that it
>claims to be damaging its interests. This was true for cassettes, this
>was true for CDs, and it is true again for the Internet. Napster is of
>marginal importance here. Gnutella or Aimster were born within the
>industry. Both came out of AOL and they escaped like a virus that
>escapes a laboratory. They try to prevent it, but they can't."
>
>Jacques Attali, 2001.
>full text at: http://www.sinologic.com/newmusic/sub/attali.html
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><-----Original Message----->
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>>From: Richard Costelloe
>>Sent: 1/20/2003 2:36:12 PM
>>To: microsound@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
>>Subject: RE: [microsound] industry loses big
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>>Hey, another 80% and we'll really be in business!! : ) 
>>Don't forget though... pirating music supports terrorism!!! 
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>>http://www.modernhumorist.com/mh/0004/propaganda/mp3.cfm 
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>>-----Original Message----- 
>>From: Tim Kugel [mailto:guitardo@xxxxxxxxxxx] 
>>Sent: Monday, January 20, 2003 2:22 PM 
>>To: microsound 
>>Subject: [microsound] industry loses big 
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>>"Losses linked to piracy were up almost 20 per cent, or about 
>>$700m-$800m on the $4.3bn value of illegally copied CDs and internet 
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>>files in 2002, according to internal industry estimates." 
>>http://news.ft.com/servlet/ContentServer?pagename=FT.com/StoryFT/FullSt
>ory&c=StoryFT&cid=1042490909139&p=1012571727088
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