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Re: Music industry proposes a piracy surcharge on ISPs
From: David Farber <dave () farber net>
Date: Fri, 14 Mar 2008 11:06:34 -0700
________________________________________ From: Gordon Peterson [gep2 () terabites com] Sent: Friday, March 14, 2008 1:31 PM To: David Farber Subject: Re: [IP] Music industry proposes a piracy surcharge on ISPs I agree fully with Dave on this one. First off, the reason a lot of us have stopped buying conventionally distributed CDs is simply because I have lost interest in the kind of garbage music that is normally found on them nowadays. A side aspect of that is that I'm tired of paying $15-20 for a CD and having the performers and composers make a few cents, at most. I'd be far happier if a fairer amount actually DID go to the performers (you remember, the ones that the recording companies keep bringing forward into the spotlights as the ones getting cheated by piracy... never mentioning that the financially GREATEST abuses against performers and composers is that abuse suffered by them at the hands of the record companies themselves), or the composers, or the musicians. Instead, the money is going mostly to the record companies. I've pretty much stopped listening to radio stations that play music. Instead, I'm listening to talk radio, or NPR, or (most often) streamed talk radio (Nova R Radio, or Air America Radio) across the Internet. As a result, I don't really get exposed to "new music" (such as there is of it, anymore... so much of it is just crap anyway). I spend my time on the Net reading mail, getting news and current events, socializing in affinity groups, political activism, and other such activities. I don't watch television much anymore either, and what music I -do- listen to is from my existing (legally purchased, or converted from my legally purchased LPs) CD collection. I do (very) occasionally add CDs to my collection, but the GREAT majority of those that I buy in recent years are purchased DIRECTLY from the performers (musicians, standup comedians, etc) at their live performances. (Many of these CDs are privately produced, and sometimes hand-produced in small quantities by the musicians themselves.) At least this way, I can feel confident that the performers whose talents I appreciate are getting a reasonable percentage of the sale price. Another reason I have pretty much stopped buying commercial CDs is because I have been outraged by the BS that the commercial companies have committed regarding worms and other such malicious software they have surrepetitiously added to commercial releases. It's also worth remembering that these same greedy recording companies already charge a "surcharge" against companies producing blank CDs for the recording of music. Supposedly, this already was to compensate the recording companies for "piracy". I object in the STRONGEST POSSIBLE TERMS against these abusive recording companies trying to FORCE me to pay for their products that *I DO NOT WANT*. David Farber wrote:
Personally this is BULL-SH_t. Dave
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