Read up on copyright law, licensing and intellectual property. Learn it inside out...then get back to me.
These insipid, adolescent non-arguments have been refuted too many times at FR to waste energy on them again.
“Read up on copyright law, licensing and intellectual property. Learn it inside out...then get back to me.”
If people don’t want their music heard, they should keep it to themselves. Once they play it over the air, or release it to the public, it can and will be copied for convenience. You can’t play a cd on an Ipod. It has to be copied.
Can you go to a library and copy a chapter out of a book? Yes, and the copiers are there to use.
If you are going to profit from copying, I agree that that is illegal. Otherwise for convenience, it is not.
If you were blind, and “BOOK A” was not released as an audio book, and a friend read the book to tape and gave you that copy to hear, you should be prosecuted....lol what a joke.
Well said. Anyone trying to argue that copying music, plays, books is somehow not illegal is being foolish.
The music industry, if they want to see numbers go back up, needs to be creative in how they make future for sale products. Either it is the physical aspect of the product, some collectors element, artwork, lottery ticket inside, what have you.. they better figure it out.
Now, what CAN’T be stolen is the satisfaction of attending a live performance. Sadly, with record sales as good as they were, most performers had live acts that were pretty pathetic.
I saw U2 in 1982 or 1983, then again in 2000. The early concert was truly a landmark event in my life. The 2000 concert was so lame that me and everyone else at the Tacoma Dome just sat there on our hands, waiting for a good 80s song to finally play. Stage show was LAME.
Rammstein, now check out what that is like, as a live participant... Holy Smokes, now THAT is a concert. Massive lights and pyrotechnic show, and at impressive venues in old colliseums, fans going nuts, loud..
So, everyone is going to win, when the performers have to TRULY perform, live.