"Link :-7" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>To quote you my friend (using that lightly)
That's not necessary... just because people disagree, we don't need to
disparage each other.
>Of course that's all your opinion, and has nothing to do with whether
>or not Napster is involved in copyright infringement...
Concession: my rendition of that juvenile and pointless parody that
really doesn't make any useful commentary on either side of the debate is
indeed my opinion <grin>
>>I'd be willing to bet all the money to my name that 99% of the songs on
>>Napster are available at Tower, Virgin, or an online CD store.
>
>The other "hits" I received were for all the Indy bands that I listed
>because I couldn't find them when I did a search. One was Southern
>Lord Records new Release by Mondo Generator called "Cocaine Rodeo"
>got some hits as well as some Phish songs from "The White Tape". My
>live Smashing Pumpkins material also received a lot of hits, as well
>as some rare Wellwater Conspiracy... Try finding any of this at
>Virgin or Tower records... No way in hell chief.
1) You are, self-admittedly, one of the minority of people that is really
into indie bands. That doesn't mean that 99% of the stuff that is out
there isn't easily available in stores.
2) I'd put money that I could go to Virgin records here in S.F. and
either find the stuff you mentioned on the racks, or could order them and
get them within a week.
>Napster didn't infringe on any copyrights, I did, I put those songs
>there, I let people download them. I'll take full responsibility for
>my actions, please RIAA, lock me up!
LOL! At least that's understood. (I mean that good-naturedly.)
>Why don't they go after the RIAA and make $5 on a CD sale, or try to
>incoroporate a price of $10 per CD WORLDWIDE! Try to reclaim their
>copyrights with Congress, which are no longer theirs by law, the record
>company owns them because Metallica is a work for hire, just like a computer
>programmer or any other musician in the eyes of the law. They aren't
>artists anymore.
Yep, all true. But using those issues to defend Napster and/or stealing
music is simply diversionary. They are separate issues. I'm on your side
when it comes to artists getting ripped off. But the solution isn't to
rip them off from the other end.
>Tell me one record company or one band that wouldn't like me to play
>a CD for a friend, and that friend say, "wow, that was awesome" "I'll
>have to buy me a copy of that."
That statement rests on the assumption that people play MP3s for friends,
and then the friends go out and buy the CD from which that MP3 was taken.
We all know that what really happens is that the friend just says "Dude,
send me that MP3."
>Why have CD sales increased?
CD sales have increased because:
1) More people own CD players, and fewer people are buying cassettes.
2) The economy is doing very well.
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