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Dennis Gunn wrote:


>... but rather I am speaking of sharing and
>trading between individuals which will only become more rampant and
>more difficult to control.
Yes.


Joeri wrote:
> >We have to make people understand why music can't be free and we have to
> >come up with models that make "music" an enjoyable product that's worth
> >paying for.

Dennis Gunn wrote:
>Yes but how do you make them understand that when from their it can
>be, and in fact *is* free.

Quite.

>  People under 30 spend a larger
>fraction of their income on music than any other group and people
>under under 24 or 25 even more still and those are the very people
>that are likely to be "sharing".
Which they do not regard as THEFT. Record companies regard it as theft 
because they get nothing. If song composers can find a way of pricing their 
music so that this kind of sharing is properly or realistically accounted 
for, then they will be quite OK -- although it might be the death of record 
companies. The music business can survive the death of record companies. It 
can't survive the death of composers as a group.

>I don't see how that is ever going
>to get under control.  Sharing is now easier than ever and is not
>going to become more difficult.

Quite. It also can't be made "more difficult" -- e.g. anti-copying CD's -- 
without the loss of a very great deal of public good will. Since record 
companies don't enjoy a lot of good will in the first place, I think this 
is a pretty stupid move. Problem is, many in the general public now regard 
mp3's as "theirs" by right, and they expect to have music made available to 
them in that form. They also expect to be able to share it with their 
friends -- just like people in the 60s used to revel in 'sharing' music by 
gathering around a transistor radio and hearing the latest renditions of 
"their" music. Just accept these things as a fact of life and find a way to 
live with it. Record companies just don't seem to be prepared to do this. 
Not yet, anyway.

Kool Musick
Keep Musick Kool


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