adamslim;285366 Wrote: > > This is, of course, almost the same as Napster was offering to the > record companies before they sued it out of existence. [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Yeah, almost the same, except for the whole "distributing money to the artists" bit. Which you may not consider important, but I do.
tyler_durden Wrote: > Music is meant to be heard and file sharing accomplishes that (remember > when radio used to?). Recordings should be considered a form of > advertisement for the musicians to support ticket sales to their live > performances. For one thing, concert tickets are expensive enough already, without them having to subsidize a bunch of freeloaders. For another, there are plenty of artists who don't perform live (for many reason, the least of which being their talent), and thus who would have no way of getting paid. What we'd end up with is a monoculture of major artists playing middle of the road pop/rock who can afford to support themselves with touring, and the smaller/interesting ones who can't would die on the vine. No thanks. -- radish ------------------------------------------------------------------------ radish's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=77 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=45519 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
