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Posted by FatKat on 09/25/35 11:27
Morton Davis wrote:
> "FatKat" <robynari@juno.com> wrote in message
> news:1127355874.925156.176270@f14g2000cwb.googlegroups.com...
> > Hardly a justification. Being the owner of something means you can not
> > only set the price, but also decide whether to sell or not. If I
> > decide to steal a car, the fact that the owner hadn't put it on the
> > market doesn't change the fact that I've just taken a car that isn't
> > mine. There are many compelling arguments for distinguishing file
> > sharing from theft, but this is not one of them. Also, simply being
> > out of print (thought they had a different term) doens't mean out of
> > circulation - old record stores, individual collectors, E*bay offer a
> > few of the avenues for obtaining hard-to-find music.
> >
> However, none of the artists get a red cent from the sale of used music or
> videos. So what's the beef?
Every time you sell an old album or tape or whatever, you're basically
selling that one album. When you share files, you're keeping the
album, and generating copies of it - becoming essentially a new
publisher of it, and affecting any plans the rights-owner may have to
publish it again, or sell it somewhere down the line.
> Also, with sattelite radio and stations playing CD quality music, what's the
> diff if you record to a CD off of the radio or DL it?
To be honest, this may be the killer part of the argument. I simply
don't know because I've never tried satellite radio or even internet
radio. If you really can get CD quality sound recorded in its pristine
digital state, then much of the rationale used against peer-share just
dries up. That said, and with satellite and webcasts becoming more
common, why hasn't peer-share declined? I mean, if this is such an
effective substitute for peer-share, why hasn't it actually substituted
for peer-share?
> What does it matter if you record a movie off of HBO or DL it? Same thing
> happens.
Not unless your VCR actually starts distributing copies of what you've
DL'd. Each videorecording off of HBO produces one copy. Peer-share
has the effect of turning your PC into a big multi-tape recorder. Back
in the days of WPN (only a few days ago) DL's had the added effect of
facilitating additional DL's. Because each person DL'g a file was a
potential Uploader, and with WPN's multi-source capability, the more a
file was DL'd, every person with that copy of the file became an
additional source who'd make it easier for successive Downloaders to
get the file as well.
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