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Lot Long
by Gary E. Andrews - 11/10/26 11:20 AM
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Joined: May 2003
Posts: 419
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<font face="Verdana, Arial" size="2">Originally posted by Brian Austin Whitney:
There have always been and will always be sweat shops in China that pump out illegal copies of anything that is made in the west with little we can do. </font> don't try to lump me in with the p2p defenders in this particular debate. i haven't offered my opinion on the relative morality of downloading. this analogy fails to respond (or even really relate) to my question. as individuals, we can choose not to buy clothes from sweatshops. we can also, as individuals, choose not to download songs if we think that is immoral. as companies, we can sue the hell out of everyone we can catch downloading our songs. but it is likely that free and anonymous downloading of music is here to stay. your internet cops are not going to be able to keep up with the slow and steady march of technological advance. there is a perceived desire for software to do a certain thing, and it will be filled. so i repeat my question for the third time. as producers of music... what should we do to provide an audience with a reason to give us money when they can easily get ahold of our recordings without paying for them? i'd like to hear your opinion on this. ------------------ kit malone http://www.kitmalone.com
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