I know this forum has been to mars and back in discussing this issue and there seems to still be those folks that are absolutists about the idea of copyright infringement laws.
to me, that argument is way too simple. we live in a time of rapidly evaporating copyright truths. the internet revolution right or wrong has created the idea that virtually everything should be available for free or darn near free. To some of us folks who put up with $11.99 records before they became a niche market item and then $18.99 cds when the record companies started to see that their profits were going up in smoke due to the internet, the revolution has been a wonderful breath of fresh air in a formally greed oriented business. so now the question becomes how do we properly compensate the artists for making this fantastic music? currently, it looks like the purchasing of recorded music tracks will become secondary or even tertiary to live concerts and merchandising. so my advice for the folks who are hung up on the minutia of copyright issues is to go see live music-pay a fair price for that ticket and then buy a t-shirt, poster, or other band related trinket. that's how you can pay that artist back for getting the music on amazon for cheap or for free online or through a hard drive swap with a friend or any other combination of ways that many folks like myself are getting their digital files. -- exile ------------------------------------------------------------------------ exile's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=4579 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=66387 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
