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Posted by Geena Phillips on 09/12/06 13:15
trippy wrote:
> In article <UbWdnWMBE6sQ0ZjYnZ2dnUVZ_vKdnZ2d@giganews.com>, Aaron took
> the hamburger meat, threw it on the grill, and I said "Oh Wow"...
>
>
>>trippy wrote:
>> > In article <X7CdnUp-tPbLkp3YnZ2dnUVZ_vGdnZ2d@giganews.com>, Aaron took
>> > the hamburger meat, threw it on the grill, and I said "Oh Wow"...
>> >
>> >> Modemac wrote:
>> >> >>From our friends at Boing Boing:
>> >> >
>> >> > http://www.boingboing.net/2006/08/22/riaa_propaganda_movi.html
>> >> >
>> >> > You can download a free propaganda film about how downloading
>> >> > copyrighted movies makes you an EVIL TERRORIST WHO WILL BE
>>TRACKED DOWN
>> >> > AND CAPTURED BY THE GLORIOUS SOLDIERS OF THE GOVERNMENT! What's
>>more,
>> >> > you can order a high-quality copy of the film on DVD, for free!
>> >> >
>> >> > --
>> >> > The High Weirdness Project
>> >> > http://www.modemac.com
>> >>
>> >> I love that trailer they're putting at the beginning of some DVDs now
>> >> with the kids downloading movies on their computer and there is some
>> >> song in the background and it flashes "YOU WOULDN'T STEAL A CAR," blah
>> >> blah blah, "DON'T STEAL MOVIES."
>> >>
>> >> That rationalization is so played out. Okay, I'm not saying that people
>> >> SHOULD steal music or movies, but it's just not the same THING, people!
>> >
>> > Sure it is. You *are* taking royalties away from the artists. By
>> > downloading a song and not paying for it, you are depriving artists of
>> > their due share of the money for a song. Their work, their
>>
>>Granted.
>>
>>The point I was trying to make was merely that the metaphor is NOT THAT
>>SIMPLE. You can't say that by taking the song from someone you are
>>depriving them of it.
>
>
> Not the song itself, their share of the money for that song. Nobody's
> trying to pawn it off as their own. That said I get what you're
> saying. But okay, dig this. You're about to release your album. Pre-
> release buzz says it's all that *and* the bag of chips. 2 days before
> you release the album, someone leaks some of the tracks. Because they
> ship them to the place before they actually sell the discs. Now your
> revenue's slashed by who knows how much because the cool songs you'd
> buy the album for are being downloaded via the net. But even if that
> doesn't happen you can still get hosed because the disc is going to be
> released eventually. Once a person buys the album, he has the ability
> to post the tracks online. That's not good if it happens on say
> wednesday and people were planning to buy the album on Friday.
>
> Pepsi had one of the most brilliant campaigns a couple of summers
> back. Remember when the RIAA was suing the crap out of people a couple
> for downloading and got all that negative press? Pepsi completely
> capitalized on it by buying downloads and giving them away with the
> purchase of pepsi products. The only snag was they were iTunes
> downloads. Fine if you like using iTunes, not everyone does. Also,
> iTunes doesn't really let you save songs. It's stored on their thing,
> not like a normal mp3 which you can save anywhere you want. This means
> if you lose your songs, you're fucked.
iTunes has a CD burning function. You can then take the tracks on that
CD and do whatever you want with them. All my purchased iTunes tracks
get converted to 320mbps .mp3s almost immediately.
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