Posted on 08/24/2009 8:07:25 PM PDT by buccaneer81
Can't stop the (free) music Why last month's $675,000 judgment against a BU student won't stop people from downloading songs illegally By Joseph P. Kahn Globe Staff / August 25, 2009
iTunes wasn’t around yet, and David Tanklefsky was in the eighth grade when Napster, the now defunct music file-sharing website, became the must-go destination for computer-savvy music fans.
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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.
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?
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?
No, not if you record it for your own use only.
How about $.09?
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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.
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.
We’ve eliminated it on campus. The kids have to go off campus to do it.
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.
If you sing a song in your head, you’re stealing! </ riaa mode>
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.
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