>At 10:44 AM 10/9/2002 -0400, James M. Ray wrote: > >>... Over $80 million was spent by Napster not-getting this idea >>before they died, so it's definitely yet-another pile of money on the >>ground, waiting for somebody to pick it up, IMO. ... > >Yes, I always thought Napster was committing suicide and needlessly >antagonizing the artistic community
aka "theft" (either you believe in ownership of property or not!) >by not implementing some kind of mini-payment system. The artists >could get a huge cut and not be indentured servants to the record >companies. Geez, what is this ... communist day? Whoever owns the music, owns the music, end of story. (As a "creative judgement" if you will, the popular music industry is just a handy system for removing money from younger people -- and that's a great idea (I wish I'd thought of it). But in any event, whoever owns the music, owns the music.) The "artists" are nothing, they can all be replaced in five minutes. They're of little more importance than minor actors in movies, so what? Architects and builders don't own buildings .. building owners own buildings. (I mean, its like when you buy a bottle of coke for $1. What you're happily paying for is 50 cents to the retailer, 49 cents to Coca Cola Inc., 0.90 cents for bottling costs .... as for the remaining tenth of a cent (the actual "cost of making coke") you have 95% advertising costs and 5% "product" (i.e. like the "formula" or sugar or whatever) costs.) >It would probably only take 2 or 3 cg per download. > >-- Patrick - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - 'Gold is the soul of all civil life, that can resolve all things into itself, and turn itself into all things' Samuel Butler --- You are currently subscribed to e-gold-list as: archive@jab.org To unsubscribe send a blank email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Use e-gold's Secure Randomized Keyboard (SRK) when accessing your e-gold account(s) via the web and shopping cart interfaces to help thwart keystroke loggers and common viruses.
