Posted by Steve King on 12/05/06 15:18

"Bill" <trash@christian-horizons.org> wrote in message
news:yZudnSY2N-pvHujYnZ2dnUVZ_qKdnZ2d@golden.net...
> 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".

And I say that you condone theft simply because you alledge it is so easy to
do and so difficult to prevent. Double bullshit. You're a crook if you
practice what you preach. Whether it is good for the music industry or
anyone else who holds a copyright is not your decision to make.

Steve King

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