-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Ian Meyer wrote:
| Now we see yet another example of how the recording industry has pulled | one over on even the above-average consumer. And we've seen many examples of how consumers pull one over on the recording industry by helping themselves to their products for free. |>> Do you all really think the artists would |>> appreciate being gypped that $4500 to begin with? | | | Do you really think the artists get more than a few pennies from every | album sale? They definitely make NOTHING from the "entitled" who just take their work. If you like $BAND so much, why steal from them? Its freaking $.99 a song for $DIETY's sake. | He made what to me | would be a non-trivial bit of change. Does it upset me? No. Did it hurt | me that he made money from it? No. Am I happy that there are thousands | of people wearing a shirt with *my* design on it? Yes. There's nothing wrong with you providing your work for free, but there are people who do not want their work distributed for free and *they* made the decision to sign with a record label. An "eat the rich" attitude is still not a valid excuse for illegally downloading copyrighted works. | | My $0.02, | ~ian (now with asbestos underwear!) | Be careful, that asbestos stuff is dangerous... ;-) - --mike -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (Darwin) iD8DBQFClI3quxlRkoWKZoMRAr4kAKCE49o3SBBSi4dpdJmd84NG7FRb4ACfTjGd VsuIUIhFWJTbZmMJGVlvP7g= =uUKO -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- TriLUG mailing list : http://www.trilug.org/mailman/listinfo/trilug TriLUG Organizational FAQ : http://trilug.org/faq/ TriLUG Member Services FAQ : http://members.trilug.org/services_faq/ TriLUG PGP Keyring : http://trilug.org/~chrish/trilug.asc
