First of all let me say that the LAW-IS-THE-LAW and I don't try to steal intellectual property. I tell my friends "just because it's easy, doesn't make it legal". That being said, I don't feel sorry for the record companies or artists at all. The cigar smoking old school record company execs and the lazy one hit wonder musicians missed the digital bus by trying to hold on to the gravy train of the past.
The gravy train explained: I bought the song Revolution by the Beatles on a 45 rpm record and pay the royalties(1) I then buy the vinyl album and pay royalties again(2) Get it on 8 track(3) Get it on cassette(4) CD(5) DVD anthology(6) As I see it I paid the royalties 6 times. I should have paid it only the first time and just paid the media costs going forward. I would even have turned in the old copies. Just because you have 1 great album you shouldn't be able to live off all the media changing royalties for the rest of you and your kids life. Now that's stealing from the public. To put this into perspective.....We write SW. When new technology comes out we can't expect the user to re-pay us just because they get a new PC/Mac. Ralph DiMola IT Director Evergreen Information Services rdim...@evergreeninfo.net -----Original Message----- From: use-livecode-boun...@lists.runrev.com [mailto:use-livecode-boun...@lists.runrev.com] On Behalf Of Bob Sneidar Sent: Thursday, October 11, 2012 1:00 PM To: How to use LiveCode Subject: Re: [OT] Where ill conceived copyright laws can lead I have to say, it's better than it was. I used to buy LP's 2 and 3 times because I would wear them out, and then there was a limit on how many I could have because they took up space. The quality of tape, LP's and CD's (yes CD's they scratch and do not have an indefinite shelf life) is limited by time. If I faithfully back up my digital copies of music, I will have them my entire life. What's more, I can re-have music I loved when I was young. No one was ever going to reprint the media once it went out of print. Now almost everything in the past has been reproduced in a digital format because the investment is so cheap and you only have to do it once. And movies! Don't get me started on movies! There are old movies no one was ever going to see again, unless some cable channel played it some early morning around 2:00! Now you can buy it online and download it. You can buy entire sets of them! Everybody wins! I think what Steve Jobs did for the media industry is a HUGE plus, and is one of those rare situations where the bulk of the consumers AND the producers agree! Bob On Oct 10, 2012, at 9:38 PM, Kay C Lan wrote: > But, what of my current 2TB of iTunes purchases; music, movies, TV > shows, apps? Sure I could leave my ID and password in my will but > that's only going to work for so long.You can't combine or split accounts. > > But it's even worse than that, I can't even move countries without > loosing the lot! Transferring accounts is not possible. _______________________________________________ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode _______________________________________________ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode
