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Can't stop the (free) music (Downloading)
The Boston Globe ^ | August 25, 2009 | Joseph P. Kahn

Posted on 08/24/2009 8:07:25 PM PDT by buccaneer81

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To: org.whodat

re: little are no understanding of what is creative rights

These are the people who’ve never created anything. They would have a great interest in creative rights if the thing being stolen was theirs.


21 posted on 08/24/2009 10:29:54 PM PDT by jwparkerjr (God Bless America, and wake us up while you're about it!)
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To: buccaneer81

Everyone is downloading free songs because they refuse to lower CD prices. The other day I walked into an FYE Store and saw NORMAL CD prices at $18.99. This is robbery. Why would anyone pay for a CD which might have 1 good song?


22 posted on 08/24/2009 10:39:08 PM PDT by FreeManWhoCan ("By the pricking of my thumbs, something wicked this way comes.")
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To: buccaneer81

It’s easy to share music with friends using a mobile hard drive or thumb drive. A DJ friend has over 200 GB of music, he let’s me pick what I like and put it on a thumb drive. What can they do about sneakernet transfers?


23 posted on 08/25/2009 1:30:29 AM PDT by IDFbunny
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To: Skenderbej

No, not if you record it for your own use only.


24 posted on 08/25/2009 3:17:54 AM PDT by 101voodoo (OBAMA- THE OPIATE FOR THE DUMB ASSES)
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To: Star Traveler
"If the music companies want to really put a dent in the illegal downloading, then start selling their individual songs for around 25-cents..."

How about $.09?

Check it out

http://www.gomusicnow.com/

25 posted on 08/25/2009 3:20:58 AM PDT by 101voodoo (OBAMA- THE OPIATE FOR THE DUMB ASSES)
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To: org.whodat
Wrong, stealing is stealing.

I know. And it is for this fact that I have no problem with the Hollywood Left "losing money" (though I never got the "lost sale" argument, as most downloaders would never buy the content to begin with) by people downloading content without paying for it. I see nothing morally wrong with depriving those who hate us of money.

However, I found a lot of folk her have little are no understanding of what is creative rights.

I would say I fully understand copyright law as it pertains to music and movies, which is why my own hatred for the Hollywood Left leads me to conclude that people not respecting their rights is a morally good thing.

26 posted on 08/25/2009 3:41:41 AM PDT by pnh102 (Regarding liberalism, always attribute to malice what you think can be explained by stupidity. - Me)
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To: FreeManWhoCan
Everyone is downloading free songs because they refuse to lower CD prices.

That's a huge part of it. As long as it is cheaper and more convenient to pirate music instead of buying a copy for each and every piece of audio equipment you own, people will do the former.

Piracy is a de facto competitor to legitimate music retailers, whether the RIAA member companies like it or not. If people are still pirating songs even when they cost 99 cents a track, it means that these people do not believe the music is worth even that much, regardless of how much it cost to produce it.

27 posted on 08/25/2009 3:45:14 AM PDT by pnh102 (Regarding liberalism, always attribute to malice what you think can be explained by stupidity. - Me)
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To: buccaneer81

We’ve eliminated it on campus. The kids have to go off campus to do it.


28 posted on 08/25/2009 3:48:11 AM PDT by AppyPappy (If you aren't part of the solution, there is good money to be made prolonging the problem.)
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To: IDFbunny
It’s easy to share music with friends using a mobile hard drive or thumb drive. A DJ friend has over 200 GB of music, he let’s me pick what I like and put it on a thumb drive. What can they do about sneakernet transfers?

Exactly. Every kid has a laptop these days, and multi-GB USB flash drives are cheap. People will swap music, and the interactions will happen "under the radar". Even e-mailing mp3 files to each other.

29 posted on 08/25/2009 4:05:18 AM PDT by PapaBear3625 (Public healthcare looks like it will work as well as public housing did.)
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To: Skenderbej

If you sing a song in your head, you’re stealing! </ riaa mode>


30 posted on 09/24/2009 10:42:36 AM PDT by Still Thinking (If ignorance is bliss, liberals must be ecstatic!)
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To: SamAdams76
Well I hereby donate all the money I would have given U2 to...global warming.

I'd like to contribute some money to global warming. All these idiot lefties contributing all this money to fight it, and no one standing up on warming's side -- it just doesn't seem fair.

31 posted on 09/24/2009 10:44:21 AM PDT by Still Thinking (If ignorance is bliss, liberals must be ecstatic!)
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