> OK. This touched a nerve. > > *"I used to record off the air and it was OK" , "everybody > does it" , > "the music today sucks anyway", "the music business is corrupt"* > > All excuses used to justify the stealing of music. Not very > funny to me, a 40 year music business worker. This was a > profession for thousands that has totally gone away. > > There is no fair comparison between the innocent taping off > of the radio and trading digital music en masse. > The former barriers were hassle,cost, quality and speed, all > of which were eliminated by digital formats.
The various arguments you note able also target only music. There are many kinds of IP that being thieved on the internet, using the same sorts of methods. I have another business that owns thousands of pieces of digital IP (including some music, and some things Ive created myself). Regularly we find it being uploaded to various free upload sites like hotfiles and then linked to from warez sites. These warez sites then generate revenue from online ad companies that serve ads on those sites. It is not fun to discover your sales suddenly "leaking out" because someone is giving away your stuff AND generating revenue from it. Many kinds of IP have a limited life span based on saturation, too. When the revenue drops like that, there's no money to pay the artist. As you've said - it isnt about the sort of sneakernet sharing of yore between friends and imperfect copies. It is the anonymous sharing with thousands +, and often with a profit motive for "anonymous" that has nothing to do with the love of whatever has been stolen. If you played the sneakernet game before, whats been happening in the last 5+ years has nothing to do with what you did. Best regards, Lynn Fredricks Mirye Software Publishing http://www.mirye.com _______________________________________________ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode
