A couple thoughts --

1.  I was thinking that if Anna has a Bible in her
house, it probably has a groovy leopard skin or
Miro-esque cover.

2.  If Gary's point is that no one here is immune from
sometimes getting something for nothing, that's
probably true.  But it's one thing to burn a friend's
CD or download the new Wilco or White Stripes before
it comes out every once in a while, and patronizing a
business that is solely grounded upon making money off
of someone else's music without paying them one thin
ruple.

Mike Bennett
--- Stacy Lynn <stacylists@gmail.com> wrote:
> 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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