On Sun, 29 Jun 2003 20:16:57 -0400, Gary Coffman wrote:
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Not any less despicable than the way the recording industry operates. Don't get me wrong, I neither side with the music industry, nor the pirateers. But the industry has had it coming for a long time IMO. They're now reaping what they've sown. As for the car analogy, how do you copy a car?
Why not *preemptively* make a (legal) backup copy then, rather than waiting for it to fail? That's the usual practice with s/w.
And it's an attitude that's the bane of many an other industry too.....damn the consumer, there's PROFITS to be made!
If you *can*...they're taking that right away in using copy protection on newer CDs (not that I give a flying f**k; there hasn't been much of anything I'd care to own in the last ~10 years).
Or it may be a bunch of crap even the artist doesn't much care for...to fill up an album and fulfill their obligation. That's certainly not unusual.
Their (the audience's) loss.
It also may mean that I will never be exposed to any of the contrived formula drivel intended to be a mainstream hit....thankfully.
I've been following this thread with much amusement. Putting aside the moral/ethical issues for a moment (after all, your morals/ethics are not mine, nor the next person's), the music industry is fighting a losing battle. P2P sharing is getting quite sophisticated. They may stamp out Kazaa and their ilk, and they may make examples of the people that they catch, but the next generation of P2P apps is here (the name escapes me at the moment....I don't personally use P2P s/w, favoring Usenet distribution instead), and it uses encryption to make tracing users exceedingly difficult, if not impossible. That said, I have nearly 500 256k MP3 CDs encoded from lossless posts of totally_legal *great* music from bands that allow taping at their shows. Not just Dead, but quite a few other bands that "get it", and they've still profited enormously in their sales of studio CDs despite all this taping/trading going on. IMO, it's (studio music piracy) partially the fault of the bands themselves for disallowing taping at shows. What really galled me was when the music industry persuaded the powers that be to slap a surcharge on blank DAT tapes to preemptively collect royalties on music yet to be recorded! It effectively made me have to subsidize their artists (or rather, the music industry) when I recorded my_own_music that I compose/play! Or to record bands that allow_taping. This effectively killed DAT's widespread acceptance (though CDs essentially finished it off). Is this fair/moral/ethical? I think not. The tides have turned, the music industry is in deep_shit, and I'm certainly not gonna shed any tears over their demise. F**k 'em. I've got enough music to listen to for *two* lifetimes.
- DW