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| From | Stacy Lynn <stacylists@gmail.com> |
| Subject | Re: allofmp3 (thank you for helping) |
| Date | Mon, 6 Jun 2005 15:13:24 -0400 |
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On 6/6/05, Gary Littleton <gary@garylittleton.com> wrote:
> I have found that most times when people are furious about you "ripping off
> an artist" that what they are really angry with is themselves. If they were
> comfortable with their own actions they wouldn't be so upset. Kind of the
> old "one hand on the bible" syndrome lol.
I don't think that is the issue. I think that the issue is that
regardless of if you buy a hard copy of the CD or not, you are still
giving some random guy in Russia who is distributing unauthorized
copies of the CD money. Why should some Russian dude make money off
of Anna's CDs? What those Russian dudes are doing is probably
marginally legal in their own country, but certainly is illegal in
most other countries. Even if it is marginally legal in Russia, it is
definately imoral. You are SUPPORTING this imoral and possibly
illegal behavior!
Anna runs a label, she works hard at getting fantastic artists on her
roster, she gets them great promotion, helps them get a good studio
and recording, helps them tour, gets their album out to places where
people can purchase it, and for all her work, the thanks she gets is
some dude in Russia gets a copy of her albums and puts it up there and
makes money off of HER hard work and doesn't give her a penny of it.
I think that is the problem. Why should some dude make money off HER work?
Is it really that much trouble to rip your own CDs? And if it is that
much extra trouble for you (as it seems to be) then you are willing to
pay for it, and if you are willing to pay for it, you should be
willing to pay the people that DESERVE the money.
Besides, as Stewart mentioned, you have no excuse as eMusic seems to
suit your needs (unless you need mostly major label stuff). as little
as 18 cents a download, redownload as much as you want without being
charged, etc.
Stacy
>
> Cheers,
> Gary
>
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: audities-owner@smoe.org [mailto:audities-owner@smoe.org] On Behalf Of
> Michael Coxe
> Sent: Sunday, June 05, 2005 7:06 PM
> To: audities@smoe.org
> Subject: Re: allofmp3 (thank you for helping)
>
> Oh the irony of this thread...
>
> Gary, it's the artists being ripped-off, not the consumer.
> You of all people should appreciate the difference.
>
> - michael
>
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>
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