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Posted by Bill on 12/05/06 14:36
There is a sustained tension between those two driving forces in popular
entertainment: the indispensible need to expose your work and the need
to generate revenue from sales of the work.
If the music industry doesn't like playing in the digital playground,
they should get out. Maybe they should just quit whining and accept
reality: there are too many advantages to the new technologies for the
world to dis-embrace them. They should do what Apple did: try to
understand the digital marketplace, innovate, and learn to make money by
accommodating public demand within the constraints of new technological
realities. If you had believed the music industry, iTunes would never
have made a cent. That's why they're in trouble now: they are behaving
like dinosaurs.
To the record companies who insist that they should be armed with new
laws and police state authority to try to impose the archaic business
model of the vinyl record on today's marketplace, I say "bullshit".
Come writers and critics who prophesize with your pens
And keep your eyes wide the chance won't come again
And don't speak too soon, for the wheel's still in spin
And there's no tellin' who that it's namin'
For the loser now will be later to win
For the times, they are a'changin'....
- Bob Dylan, 1962.
Bob Ford wrote:
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> I produce video for a very selective market and I have had people who
> steal our stuff try to convince me that it exposes my work to more
> people, some of whom may buy my products and besides that those who
> have the pirated works would never have bought it from me in the first
> place.
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> To this I say emphatically.....BULLSHIT!!
> If you don't plan to buy it legally then don't copy it either.
>
> That's what I think of the arguments in Freddy boys blog :-(
>
>>See also the youtube site: http://www.youtube.com/
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> Bob Ford
> Images In Motion
> www.imagesinmotion.com
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