“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.
This is "before."
I have thousands of songs on my ipod, all of which I paid for. My music collection cost me about $4500. My daughter has 5 times as much, all downloaded without purchasing. What she has done, is clearly wrong.
But, what is indisputable, is that right or wrong, it is a fact, and there appears to be no way to stop it. The answer is something, forward thinking. Again, I think the answer is that live music will make a big comeback. Musicians are partly to blame for their plight. Disconnected from their audience, overpriced product, low quality, and too many fingers in the middle made stealing music a no brainer.
For me, it is cheaper and less hassles, to just go buy the cd at walmart or target, and for 10-20 bucks I got the actual discs. Now, if they moved price points to 3-7 bucks, I’d bet some people would prefer having the quality of the discs themselves, and could also afford it. Plus, the unit volume would probably spike much higher.
The industry must come clean, fess up that production costs are a fraction of what they used to be, and now need to pass the savings on to the consumer.