Subject: RE: apple and the dmca Re: Audio Hijack
From: ++ K w u s t++ (thrash@btclick.com)
Date: Fri Nov 29 2002 - 08:58:57 EST
I personally cant afford to buy albums
I just wonder where the monies coming from
If everyones copying the stuff..
is the software industry dead? far from it.
is Red Hat, Mandrake, SuSE dead?
is GNU.org dead?
I bet these companies have massive investment
Behind them though..
How much hope have small independent music labels
Of getting the same investment...
kris
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mail: thrash@btclick.com
before i go as far as to contact my legal friends from CDR and talk
about your potential defamation of my work by that last sentence, i'd
suggest you read the essays on www.gnu.org about what Copyleft really
is. its not poisonous nor is it discouraging value - it is about
enabling all people to share in the value of enjoying music, and not
leaving it to the elite who happen to have enough money to buy albums -
as their prices continue to rise.
i dont think Copyleft has harmed the value of the software industry - if
it had, why would Red Hat be the platform of choice for server security?
i'd also suggest you hang out on linux-audio-dev and talk to people like
Paul Davis who are working on pro-level audio tools for GNU/Linux.
people in the copyleft world are very much concerned with quality.
>
> The end result of this is that the recording industry as we know it
will be
> dead - not just for the record companies (no loss there) but for the
> artists too.
LOL
is the software industry dead? far from it.
is Red Hat, Mandrake, SuSE dead?
is GNU.org dead?
> >its very interesting to consider that the
> >protests against DRM are not coming from kids swapping mp3s on Kazaa
>
> They'd probably protest if they knew what a word like 'lobbying'
meant. :)
i think you vastly underestimate *who* uses p2p.
having recently interviewed the cracking team OxYGeN i have found them
to be very intelligent and well informed people.
> The usual geek libertarians in other words - the ones who don't make a
> living from art, but feel they know what's best for those people who
do, or
> want to.
read the article in this month's Sound on Sound before you say anything
further.
m~
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