Apple Logic Pro /LogicExpress Discussion

--- GAmoore@... wrote:
> Check
> out www.foodnetwork.com 
> for thousands of recipes from tv shows. New recipes
> are created all the time by 
> people who went to chef school and spent years
> praticing their craft and 
> using their creativity.

Your analogy isn't terribly accurate.  At best, a
recipe website is the equivalent of giving sheetmusic
away.  Sharing mp3's is the equivalent of forcing
those tv chefs to come over to your house and cook you
a meal.  Or maybe more accurately, it is going to the
supermarket and STEALING the wolfgang puck frozen
foods.  A little but lossy, but a reasonable facsimile
of the original.  Do you think you should be able to
get Wolfgang Puck's food for free at your local
supermarket, just because you could, with a lot of
effort and talent, buy a meal at his restaurant and
recreate it for free in your own kitchen?  That's the
argument in favour of filesharing.  I should be able
to have the original for free because, after all, I
could make the exact same song if I just spent a
couple hundred grand on recording facilities and
talented musicians, so therefore I'm entitled to it
for free.

Given how easy it is for a talented (or not) musician
to generate sheet music from a couple of listens to a
song, I think it is fair to argue that musicians
already willingly accept the same level of exposure as
a professional chef revealing his recipe.  The magic
isn't in the combination of ingredients to proportion,
it is in the execution of the preparation, just like
music.  You can mix the correct notes together to your
hearts content, but only an artist (or artists) will
generate something equal in artistic endeavour to the
original.

Copying a cd, on the other hand, allows any joe blow
to access the original performance as though someone
had shoved a chef's masterpiece in a star trek
replicator and delivered a copy to ev ery home in
america.

--sam



		
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