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| From | John Micek <jlmicek@verizon.net> |
| Subject | Re: The American Recording Industry, RIP |
| Date | Mon, 31 Dec 2007 17:59:21 -0500 |
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That's a relief to know, but Jesus Christ on a Raft, I read stories
like this one, and I'm sorely tempted not to put another dollar into
EMIUniversalWarnerDefJam for the rest of my life. If I look around my
home office at my record/CD/tape collection and try to calculate how
much I've spent on media in the 25 years that I've been a music fan,
the mind just boggles.
Even a conservative estimate of 2,000 CDs at say, $15 a pop, equals
$30,000 that I, alone, have given to the record industry. If I add in
the vinyl and cassettes and singles and boxed sets, it increases by
an order of magnitude. I think about that, and then I think, "These
greedy MFs want more? Then I think, "I love rock-and-roll. But I'm
not sure that rock-and-roll loves me back anymore."
john micek.
On Dec 31, 2007, at 4:10 PM, Stewart Mason wrote:
> This story came up today on the radio show I wake up to every
> morning, NPR's The Bryant Park Project. Their correspondent
> pointed out that a lot of the news articles about this lawsuit got
> an important detail wrong: the brief doesn't charge the guy with
> taking his own CDs and putting them into his own computer, but with
> putting them into a public folder on his computer, which could be
> accessed by others. So the issue is still unauthorized
> distribution, just on a much smaller scale than one of the P2P
> networks.
>
> I'm not saying that the RIAA isn't batshit crazy, just that they're
> not quite crazy enough to try to sue someone for putting tracks
> from his CDs into a private, unshared folder on his computer. In
> which case they'd have to sue every single person who has ever
> bought an iPod.
>
> S
>
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