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From: PrinceGaz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Tuesday, December 28, 1999 10:54 AM
Subject: Re: MD: Another look at the AHRA and MD
>
> From: "Dan Frakes" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > Legal issues aside, you're wrong about this. People *are* losing money.
> > If you record a friend's CD onto an MD, you're getting the album for
> > free. Forget about the record company for a minute: the *artist* is
> > losing money. The "fine" you keep ranting about is completely irrelevant
> > because even when a fee is included in the cost of a MiniDisc, the
artist
> > whose album you just copied will never see the money. So people *are*
> > clearly losing.
>
> No, no, no, no, no. Nobody is losing any money if I copy a CD that I had
> absolutely no intention whatsoever of buying. If I buy the CD the artist
makes
> money. If I copy someone elses the atist makes *no* money. If I don't
copy
> someone elses but don't buy the CD myself-- the artist makes *no* money.
> So the artist loses nothing. Thats what I was talking about originally.
So, what you are saying is that either you:
a) Will copy something you don't actually want for the sake of copying it
and nothing else.
b) You wont buy it because the offer of a copy is there meaning you don't
have to pay for a legal copy
c) You think the small charge added to the cost of a blank disc is the same
as paying for a commercial copy but obviously far cheaper because you don't
get nice packaging and you have to copy it yourself.
d) You don't think it right that artists should be paid for their work - you
should be able to get it for free providing a small charge is added to the
blank media which the performing artist will se none of.
or
e) all of the above.
Magic
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