Fozzy wrote: > For me, morally as well as legally, one > should obtain music in a way that at least has the potential to provide > the writers and performers of the music with money unless they > specifically choose to give the music away.
In the olden days, before mass copying technology became affordable and available to the mainstream audiences, the only way you could enjoy music is by attending the actual performance. That does not necessarily mean attending the actual live performance. For example, the publishing house could record a popular band, such as the Beatles, but then instead of mass producing the sound carriers (such as LPs) to be distributed, they could've arranged for a series of scheduled playbacks at certain venues. One could easily imagine an event where distributors could charge admission fees (like $10.00 per person) for attending the playback of the Beatles album "Abbey Road". People would show up, pay the admission, be seated, and then the playback would commence. Side A, short intermission, Side B. After which everybody goes home. You want to hear "Abbey Road" again? Sure, pay $10.00 and attend another 'performance'. And so on. The above is how the movie industry used to function. That was during the pre-VHS/DVD/blu ray/Netflix/Youtube days. Why music industry chose to go with a different model, whereby they would mass produce and distribute copies of the recorded performance, is a curious fact that remains kind of difficult to explain. Have they stuck with the movie industry model (i.e. you pay each time you want to attend the playback), I'm sure they would've made much more money in the long run. But by now, the cat is out of the bag, as we all are in possession of dirt cheap means for not only making unlimited number of identical copies of recorded music, but also unlimited channels for distributing and sharing these copies. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ magiccarpetride's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=37863 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=95541 _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list audiophiles@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/audiophiles
