Posted by NRen2k5 on 11/17/05 02:31

David C. wrote:
> NRen2k5 <napsterneorenegade@hotmail.com> writes:
>
>>David C. wrote:
>>
>>>"FunkyDevil" <qs8rzr001@sneakemail.com> writes:
>>>
>>>
>>>>Paying for their product does not make you a good person , it just
>>>>makes them rich and more aggressive towards the consumer.
>>>
>>>I hope you someday spend months or years of your life working on
>>>something (a book, a song, a software title), that everybody in the
>>>world wants, and you never see a penny of profit because everybody is
>>>trading pirated copies.
>>
>>You're wrong. I've heard that argument a dozen times before and it
>>doesn't hold any water.
>>
>>You're broke because the record company didn't give you a penny for
>>any of the MILLION copies you sold, NOT because *ten thousand* people
>>"stole" it.
>
>
> Where did I say anything about "record company"?
>
> Perhaps you should read messages before firing off knee-jerk flames.
>
> -- David

It's not a knee-jerk flame. It's how the industry works. You get signed
by one of the major record labels (most of the smaller ones are jus
subsidiaries of the big ones). Then the record label proceeds to take
just about every last cent earned and put it to their own use.

Perhaps you should read things twice. I don't like having to type them
twice.

- NRen2k5

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