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garagerock
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join:2002-06-14
Louisville, KY
| I'll tell ya what makes me happy... Get the hell out of the way of technological change.
Go bury your dinosaur heads in the sand and let the free market decide how content is delivered, instead of legislating, dictating, and otherwise scaring the pants off of people trying to protect your cash cows.
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|  wjwallace3
join:2002-01-17
Mount Tabor, NJ
| Re: I'll tell ya what makes me happy... I don't know why people feel that it is fair to trade movies and music for free, and then get pissed off when someone tells them to stop.
Would you shoplift a DVD from the store? Probably not, but its the same thing. When the studio or record company loses money, the artists suffer.
I agree that the gov't should not change the laws to protect the industry, but they should change laws to protect copyrights in general.
And no, I don't work for a studio or record company. | |
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raz58
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join:1999-08-15
Tucson, AZ
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| Re: I'll tell ya what makes me happy... said by wjwallace3  :
When the studio or record company loses money, the artists suffer
Read this, »www.janisian.com/article-interne···cle.html
Then tell us who screws the artists.
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garagerock
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join:2002-06-14
Louisville, KY
| said by wjwallace3 :
I don't know why people feel that it is fair to trade movies and music for free, and then get pissed off when someone tells them to stop.
I don't know why you care about what I do with my personal property.
I'm all for fairly compensating artists, and the studios, for that matter. My point is that they need to embrace technology and a new business model instead of forcing us, the consumers, the very people that give them their existence, into not having choices about formats, copying to new formats, fair use, etc.
They would rather us be enslaved to their outdated philosophy than to change. Paid subscription model-it works. Just ask any porn site that charges for access.
Going to the record store and buying another tripe filled CD with one or two good tracks for $20 isn't going to work for them much longer. They need to evolve, and perhaps "piracy" is the swift kick in the balls they need/deserve.
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grunteled
Puffy And Prickly
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join:2001-06-13
Kansas City, MO
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| If you have nothing new to say, why post? We have all heard more times than is humane the various shoplifting, armed robbery, rape, murder, theft, and other legal analogies given to this issue. I don't need to hear it again. It's simply not a persuasive argument in the face of the legislation they want today.
I reject outright the notion that movies should be free and that you are entitled to steal them. I also reject outright the notion that we should have implants in our stereos, cars, palm pilots, TVs, cable boxes, mp3 players, speakers, cd drives, ears, eyes, and computers to protect their property. My computer is NOT a home entertainment device, and it angers me and many others when it is treated as one. They can, like all other property owners, attack the distributers of stolen property and leave the rest of us alone.
Please spare the world another shoplifting DVDs/CDs argument. Please..... | |
| | randysavage0
join:2002-04-16
Fayetteville, AR | Mr. wallace.... has anyone told you the difference between tangible property and intangible property?
Come post again when you shoplift a copyright. | |
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