[MacDV] Re: OT: AAC > MP3

[Illovox Media]

I suspect that for many, music sharing on a "check this one out" level is
more akin to hearing a song, then telling your friends about it by humming
it or singing it for them.  This form of artistic sharing used to be the
norm...EVERYWHERE.  Now that art has been commoditized as more toasters for
multinationals to reap profit with, it has become criminal.  I don't know
where I stand, both as a writer and a visual artist.  I know I like seeing
people let other people know about my work by sharing it, and I also like
getting cash.  My experience has been that people who "sample" my work also
buy it if they like it, as a positive consequence of the commoditization.
How so?  In a capitalistic culture, art has become a product or a thing to
be had, bought, sold, rather than an experience and a communion.  I can also
say that when I experience the latter in a vibrant way, I would gladly trade
cash and sales for a few "full houses."

on 7/12/03 7:48 PM, Gerhard at gerhardk at mac.com wrote:

> Chad is it your contention that shoplifting is fine but when you steal
> in larger quantities it becomes a crime or somehow depraved?
> For a self-righteous sort as yourself I would have assumed that you know
> that fair use is to provide the purchaser with the opportunity to use
> their music in various forms for their O W N use not for sharing with
> buddies, there is no distinction between formats sharing is verboten -
> no cassettes, no mp3s or what ever your file preference is nor is are a
> small number of infractions considered acceptable.
> 
> Gerhard Kuhn
> suspice at hay.net

> Chad wrote
> That was me and my friends throughout the 70s, for sure. We used
> cassette "samplers" of songs to spread the word about artists we liked.
> Had it stayed at that level, music "sharing" probably would have gotten
> "looked the other way" by the record companies. But it didn't, so
> frankly the pirates really don't have anyone to blame but themselves.