On Mon, Oct 20, 2003 at 02:07:41AM +0100, William T Goodall wrote: > The solution to the pie being divided unfairly isn't to throw out > the pie. Getting rid of IP seems like Luddism to me, a return to > the days of craft work and patronage. IP (copyright in the case of > music, books and films) allows ordinary people inexpensive access to > a huge quantity of well-made art, and facilitates a great number of > the creators of this art to make a full-time living out of creating > it. That seems like a good thing to me.
Yup, brainwashed. Are you going to become religious next? > Record companies aren't charities :) And they don't 'help' people - > they pay them. You were the one who brought up the idea of contributing to the artists. How is paying artists not helping them? > Concert tours often lose money since they are used to promote CD > sales. And what about artists who create studio-based recordings > and don't play live or tour? What about song-writers? What about > authors? Are they supposed to make a living from speaking tours and > charging for autographs? And movie makers - I guess they'd have to > start strip-searching everyone on the way into the theatre to make > sure there were no cameras. Yup, brainwashed. You have joined the recording industry religion. Preach the gospel, brother! > That's capitalism. They should sign up artists they think are going to > lose them huge quantities of money? You were the one who brought up contributing to the artists. But I can understand how the brainwashing makes you forget these things. -- Erik Reuter http://www.erikreuter.net/ _______________________________________________ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
