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David (who agrees with Larry about beer ... it looks like urine, it smells
like urine, and it probably tastes like urine, and every beer drinker to
whom I've said that has responded, "It doesn't taste like urine"; how do
they know?)
Obviously, David has never
On Fri, 08 Sep 2000 12:35:39 -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
To a certain degree, copyright still applys. However domestic use is
considered "time-shifting" - it would almost certainly be a different
matter
should you attempt (and be noticed) to be selling, distributing, or
otherwise
"David W. Tamkin" wrote:
David (who agrees with Larry about beer ... it looks like urine, it smells
like urine, and it probably tastes like urine, and every beer drinker to
whom I've said that has responded, "It doesn't taste like urine"; how do
they know?)
You don't buy beer, you
You don't buy beer, you just rent it.
RENT IT!!! Hell I'd die of thirst before I'd drink it.
Larry
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Many athletes work 10-12 hours
a day at their profession. Sure some days they don't, but I think to say
that "most athletes do not have to work that hard" shows a profound
misunderstanding about what "most athletes" actually have to do to be
successful. Most professional athletes have been
On Thu, 07 Sep 2000 20:18:44 -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
"J. Coon" wrote:
OK. I'm going to try and end this discussion now. I have said all along
that there
should be a royalty fee paid to download "quality" MP3s from the net.
Surely that fee should be for anything copyrighted,
On Fri, 08 Sep 2000 02:38:52 -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
You can get me to support the arts and artists all the way, but when it
comes sports, I stand my ground. They are still just playing!!!
I just don't see how you can differentiate like this, with sport and art -
surely there are
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I just don't see how you can differentiate
"David W. Tamkin" wrote:
Agreed. The average downloader is more likely thinking, "Hey, I'm getting
this stuff for free. Isn't that great?" To think "I'm stealing this stuff"
would require considering the situation further and thinking about its having
an owner and whether its free
las wrote:
Larry, I completely agree with most of what you wrote about valuable
professions not being paid what they're actually worth.
Dan, if I gave the impression that artists should not be paid for their
work,
that is not what I meant to say. But do artists deserve the payments that
On Thu, 07 Sep 2000 01:34:22 -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Larry, I completely agree with most of what you wrote about valuable
professions not being paid what they're actually worth.
Dan, if I gave the impression that artists should not be paid for their
work,
that is not what I
las wrote:
Can we really call the Spice girls "Artists"??? I won't waste an MD on
them.
Hell, I'd give 'em an MD to spend the night with me.
--
Jim Coon
Not just another pretty mandolin picker.
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If Gibson made cars, would they sound so sweet?
My first web page
las wrote:
Dan, if I gave the impression that artists should not be paid for their work,
that is not what I meant to say. But do artists deserve the payments that
they receive
Do dentists deserve being paid to hurt people? There are a lot more
starving artists out there than there are
Do dentists deserve being paid to hurt people? There are a lot more
starving artists out there than there are starving dentists.
The above statement has got to be the one of the stupidest that I have ever heard.
I'm very disappointed that an intelligent person like you would make such a
On Thu, 07 Sep 2000 11:20:45 -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Fifth, what does it take to be an "artist"? The reason that there are so
many
starving artists is because there are so many people who consider
themselves
"artists"!!! What qualifications does it take to be an artist How
If the guy hasn't seen a dentist in nine years, I doubt your suggestion
of finding a new one isn't going to mean much. I'm guessing oral hygeine
is quite low on his priority list.
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las wrote:
Do dentists deserve being paid to hurt people? There are a lot more
starving artists out there than there are starving dentists.
The above statement has got to be the one of the stupidest that I have ever heard.
I'm very disappointed that an intelligent person like
Do you mean if everybody with artistic creativity, or those that express
themselves artisticly, suddenly disappeared? Or all artistic content and /
or stimulus suddenly disappeared?
No! certainly not all artistic content. When you get down to things that basic,
art is like food (at least
"J. Coon" wrote:
OK. I'm going to try and end this discussion now. I have said all along that there
should be a royalty fee paid to download "quality" MP3s from the net.
I stand by that position. I don't think that they average person downloading stuff is
thinking to him/herself, "Hey I'm
"J. Coon" wrote:
No problem here, some of my best friends are dentists, my nephew just
got started in his practice, and I'll probably have to go to one next
week. Bit down on a potato chip wrong and it went between the gum and
my front tooth. Been sore and swollen ever since. Lots of
las [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I thought that we live in a democracy? If the majority of population
want Napster to exist, shouldn't that be the case?
Sounds more like mob rule than democracy to me ;-) After all, if the
majority of the population thinks you should give them your savings
Dan Frakes wrote:
Sounds more like mob rule than democracy to me ;-) After all, if the
majority of the population thinks you should give them your savings
account, should you?
The way I was always taught, our government (US) was set up where
majority rules and minority has rights. If the
las [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
To me music is something you do because you have a passion for it. If
people are willing to pay you money to make music that's fine. But the
minute it is no longer about the music, but about the money instead, you
are no longer an artist and your passion has turned
Larry, I completely agree with most of what you wrote about valuable
professions not being paid what they're actually worth.
Dan, if I gave the impression that artists should not be paid for their work,
that is not what I meant to say. But do artists deserve the payments that
they receive
http://www.theatlantic.com/cgi-bin/o/issues/2000/09/mann.htm
Rampant music piracy may hurt musicians less than they
fear. The real threat -- to listeners and,
conceivably,
democracy itself -- is the music industry's reaction
to it
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