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The whole downloading music thing...
Orbert:
Wow, what a great article! I agree with almost every word of it. And it comes from someone who's been inside and knows how these people think. Sadly, it's just what we figured: it's all driven by greed. Profits and the bottom line.
Read that article! It's long, but not nearly as long as you think. After ten minutes, my scrollbar said I was only a fraction into it, but I was almost done. I forgot that 80% of the page (probably more by time you read this) was comments.
Thanks, thehollow!
thehollow:
yeah, it's a really well-written piece.
Do take a bit to scroll through the comments, as the author responds to many of them and further elaborates on the article, I think he was posting as Rob in the comments.
GenericName:
thehollow, have you linked to this piece before? I seem to remember gettibng a link from these fori and reading that article.
It brings up some good points!
Also, I can't remember if we've talked about the fact that sometimes the downloaded music is just for a backup copy. For example, I just got a new computer and haven't synced my iPod to it, so none of my music is on it. But I really wanted to listen to Arcade Fire, so I torrented Funeral and am now listening to it.
Similarly, my friend's mother downloaded a couple gigs of music but it was all stuff she has on record.
Are these uses wrong?
thehollow:
I found it on the afterthepostrock.com forums, I don't think I linked it here, but I did on the postrockxchange livejournal page.
a pack of wolves:
--- Quote from: GenericName on 06 Nov 2007, 17:03 ---thehollow, have you linked to this piece before? I seem to remember gettibng a link from these fori and reading that article.
It brings up some good points!
Also, I can't remember if we've talked about the fact that sometimes the downloaded music is just for a backup copy. For example, I just got a new computer and haven't synced my iPod to it, so none of my music is on it. But I really wanted to listen to Arcade Fire, so I torrented Funeral and am now listening to it.
Similarly, my friend's mother downloaded a couple gigs of music but it was all stuff she has on record.
Are these uses wrong?
--- End quote ---
I'm pretty sure that's completely legal, at least in the UK, and is considered the same as when people make a tape of an LP to listen to it on a walkman. Well, it would be if the files had been acquired from something like Soulseek and not shared, with a torrent inevitably it means sharing them with people who hadn't bought copies of the music at any point and that's what people get prosecuted for.
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