[Ti] 4 songs per second poll

[Tarik Bilgin]

On Friday, May 2, 2003, at 04:06  am, b wrote:

> Sam Hotchkiss paused, thought it over, and spoke thusly:
>
>> On Thu, 1 May 2003 6:49PM -0700, Hayes-Holgate, Shaun wrote:
>>>  Actually another question for the poll would be:
>>>  Why are you buying the music from Apple when you
>>>  can get it for free with Limewire or other file
>>>  sharing programs?
>>
>> while I think this would be a very good poll, there's no way anybody 
>> on this list is going to reply with anything but "piracy is bad"... 
>> this is a very anti-piracy list, and people who say anything that 
>> sounds like possibile condonement of piracy get criticized 
>> severely... now before you stop flaming me, I'm not saying that our 
>> anti-piracy stance is wrong, simply that it keeps us from attaining 
>> even moderately accurate poll results
>> --
>
> Piracy? You mean guys in Hong Kong or the People's Army in Beijing 
> making hundreds of thousands of copies of Windows XP and selling them 
> throughout Asia? I don't condone that. Or folks who make Anne Klein, 
> and fake Fendi bags and selling them across Europe, Asia, and America? 
> Not too thrilled about that either.
>
> But kids sharing favorite songs over the internet? Who cares?

If you believe that  examples with Microsoft and Fendi products being 
stolen through piracy then surely stealing music is exactly the same.

For me it is even worse, because I used to be a professionial musician 
and I know how tough life is on the artists.

Having said that, artists that make it on to the "top 200,000" that 
Apple have compiled are _all_ without, exception, mainstream 
bestsellers in their genre and do not need protecting imho.

The music "revolution" or the "copyright revolution" (abuse of it) 
however has been a good thing not because it allows kids to swap mp3s 
(when i was a kid i swapped tapes) but because it has given unknown, 
more fringe artists, a platform.

It still remains to see whether this is going to help the "independent" 
artist in the future, but I believe it will as this is a way of cutting 
out the middle men (the big five) in distribution and promotion.

You can promote and distribute music through a website now, and on 
those all important shoutcast internet radios.

Ch..ch..ch.ch..changes!



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Tarik Bilgin
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