On 13/02/07, Richard Lockwood <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Your argument is that all music should be utterly free. Which, while > a nice idea in Davetopia, or wherever you live, is completely > unworkable. > I suspect that he would like all music to be free (libre), not free (gratis), and why would it be unworkable? "Study Finds P2P Has No Effect on Legal Music Sales": http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/02/13/1332214
No - he was arguing that it should be freely distributable by anyone with no restrictions. Making as many copies as you like and then - this is the crucial part - giving it to other people for no money. That's free (gratis). And I quite agree about P2P currently having negligible effect on legal sales. That's because P2P sharing of copyright music is still illegal, and most users don't have the software to do it. As soon as it becomes legal, an easy to use version of some P2P s/w gets bundled with every new Dell & HP PC and everyone's using it - and very few people actually need to buy music. P2P sharing then becomes a mass market activity, and not (as is my personal experience) the preserve of geeks, teenagers (not huge buyers of CDs anyway) and music afficianados wanting rare recordings that often can't be got hold of any other way. Cheers, Rich. - Sent via the backstage.bbc.co.uk discussion group. To unsubscribe, please visit http://backstage.bbc.co.uk/archives/2005/01/mailing_list.html. Unofficial list archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/
