Hey Jim, Yes I also agree with you. Record companies are no angels, yet the point I make is one of stealing goods without paying for them so I find that my moral objection stands.
If you were a potter for example, would you not be a little anoyed if people wanted to take your pots without paying for them? Even if your distributers charged over the odds, that does not mean that people are allowed to steal your goods, the old two wrongs not making a right and what not ummm. I have been lookng through the comments section on that site, and mostly what I see is people whinging about ohh it cost too much money to buy music. Well fuck me 75p per single for download, or upto £9.99 for a real honest to goodness CD is too much money? Well as my nan would no doubt say, 'I'll go to the foot of our stairs' On 23 Sep, 14:55, retiredjim34 <[email protected]> wrote: > Lee - your morally correct objective is a bit off. The prime culprit > in the music business has been for decades the music companies > themselves. They have accountants even more skilled than the movie > business at making sure all profits from record sales are consumed by > production costs. Recording artists learned long ago that the only way > to make any money is to tour. They view records, even platinum > records, just as advertising. So please don't berate illegal file > sharing without also berating record companies. Jim > > On Sep 22, 6:44 am, Lee <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > This from the BBC today. > > >http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/8267142.stm > > > What do we think? > > > I think that it is not moraly correct to take an artists work (in any > > field) and not pay for it, that is how they make their livlyhood > > afterall. So I do not fileshare myself, nor download illegaly. > > > That said, this is the way things are now and I dare say it is > > impossible to stop. Better then I guess that musicians seek to turn > > it to their own advantage perhaps by (like NIN did) using the 'net to > > give away a certian amount of their art to moisten the the lips of all > > of the fans that will pay for their work. No publicity is bad > > publicity and all that. > > > Loss of revenue IS going to happen, this kind of piracy I think will > > never stop, take the loss, and make the mony on the tours or other > > merchandising I figure. Shit at least the 'net has the capacity to > > make an unknown into a 'Known' in a matter of seconds.- Hide quoted text - > > - Show quoted text - --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups ""Minds Eye"" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/minds-eye?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
