Hi every1, Coupla thoughts...
* Record companies generally make more money than the artists themselves. * If retail audio CDs cost only $15 instead of $30 hardly anybody would bother downloading generally inferior "pirated" MP3 versions. * Long before P2P existed people used to borrow your/my LP records and routinely record them to cassette. It wasn't long ago that they borrowed your/my CDs and copied them to cassette... * Many artists (who DO in fact have record contracts) have encouraged the download from registered sites of their material...David Bowie springs immediately to mind. Yes...in many circumstances downloading music from P2P programs will be violating copyright laws, whether they are enforceable or just foreign copyright laws is moot. Pandora's box has been opened. Cheers, Kevin from Wycheproof. -----Original Message----- From: "Dark Servant"<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "WAMUG"<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Wed Apr 30 01:16:11 PDT 2003 Subject: Re: mp3 music downloads >> >>> Without going into the legality or morality of what you are doing.... >> >> Running the risk of being deluged here, but I do need to ask the >> following question: >> >> "Why are you not going into the legality or morality?" > >Matt already pointed out the legally associated problems. I would like >to point out a few things in regards to moral issues. >The morality of downloading music without paying really does vary a >great deal depending on your perspective. I personally don't think >there is anything 'morally' wrong with music sharing. When it comes to >music it is the musical artists that should be benefiting from it. >After all they are the people who are really creating it. Many musical >artists are quite happy for their music to be shared online for free so >why won't the record companies lets this happen at least in these >situations. It should be up to the creator of the music not some >corporate body. >I would be more than happy to use a paying system to download music if >at least 50% of profits went to the musical artists but this certainly >won't happen. They will probably get something like 5% if they're >lucky. >Don't get me wrong. I love Apple but I think it is morally wrong for >them to be making more profit out of musical artists than the artists >themselves are making. The same moral rule also applies to the music >companies. > >Please note that this is not an assault on anyones moral beliefs as >every is entitled to their own code of ethics. > >Ruben A. Franke > > >-- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- >Archives - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.html> >Guidelines - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.html> >Unsubscribe - <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/ > > ___________________________________________________ GO.com Mail Get Your Free, Private E-mail at http://mail.go.com
