Posted by nospam on 02/08/07 21:24

Gordon Sande wrote:

> The "defacto copyright infringement encouragers" scared the wits out of
> the music business. Piracy is the symptom of the "defacto copyright
> infringement encouragers". Most of their music material is from CDs that
> has no protection at any stage. Eventually the "defacto copyright
> infringement encouragers" will have to be discouraged. The problem is
> how to effect that behaviour change with the music business still badly
> spooked.

I think the xhange has to be more fundamental than that. If artists were
known to be getting just rewards from their music via sales then it
would not be 'cool' to give copies of that music to others. It's only
becuase so many people know what a bunch of shysters the big labels are
that it is socially acceptable.

And most musicians have no problem with file sharing. It actually helps
them, see
http://www.janisian.com/article-internet_debacle.html

for example. Here's a bit of it:
"Let's take it from my personal experience. My site (www.janisian.com )
gets an average of 75,000 hits a year. Not bad for someone whose last
hit record was in 1975. When Napster was running full-tilt, we received
about 100 hits a month from people who'd downloaded Society's Child or
At Seventeen for free, then decided they wanted more information. Of
those 100 people (and these are only the ones who let us know how they'd
found the site), 15 bought CDs. Not huge sales, right? No record company
is interested in 180 extra sales a year. But... that translates into
$2700, which is a lot of money in my book. And that doesn't include the
ones who bought the CDs in stores, or who came to my shows."

Andy

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