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asks some good questions -- Rampant Piracy in the Music Industry
From: Dave Farber <dave () farber net>
Date: Sat, 23 Nov 2002 17:45:34 -0500
------ Forwarded Message From: Anthony Watson <Anthony.Watson () dollarsandsense com> Date: Sat, 23 Nov 2002 12:13:31 -0800 To: dave () farber net Subject: Rampant Piracy in the Music Industry BTW: I find it often a good idea to look for symptoms in the real world of an alleged problem or look for real world instances taht seem to refute a particular version of reality. Let us look at the claims by napster foes. Rampant piracy was/is destroying the music industry. If the claims of the music industry were really true, one would expect that the big money makers for the industry would inevitably be new content, since "digital music piracy" has been around so long now. However, if that was true, why would a re-release of old Elvis tunes be a chart topper this year? Any who was a rabid fan willing to pay bucks for the CD should have already gotten these songs digitally and a re-release would have flopped, but it didn't ...why not? Because the problem is not bad enough to justify extending cop[yright law out longer and/or rolling back fair use rights of the consumer, but since the industry wants to do those things for monopolist monetary reasons this "piracy" is fine excuse to try to roll back "fair use" rights, which the industry has been upset about since the days of analog recording. MHO AW ------ End of Forwarded Message ------------------------------------- You are subscribed as interesting-people () lists elistx com To unsubscribe or update your address, click http://v2.listbox.com/member/?listname=ip Archives at: http://www.interesting-people.org/archives/interesting-people/
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