Re: Your favorite music download site?

"Jim Carr" <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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"JoeSpareBedroom" <dishborealis@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Slight left turn: Every time I have to take 40 songs from different
artists, burn them to five CDs, and hand them out to band members to
practice, I have visions of the CEO of a major record company watching
the whole process, hooked up to a blood pressure monitor. Am I guilty of
200 counts of breaking some law (40 song X 5 CDs)? Or, am I doing them a
favor because inevitably a couple of band members say "Cool song - who is
that?", and they go out and buy the CD? Am I really performing a function
similar to a radio station?

Yeh, you're guilty. For $10 a month each the band could find all their
songs on their own on any of a dozen or more services. With CDs being at
least that much, it's probably less expensive to subscribe than to buy the
occasional CD. I used to bitch years ago about how I would spend much more
money on music if I could pick and choose my songs. Now that I can do
that, I actually spend the money. And it's more than I was spending on CDs
(I was tired of paying $12 for basically two songs). I'll give the record
companies credit there, though it took a while for them to catch up with
the technology.

As to whether you're doing them a favor or not, they would say not. They
view it as stealing. I think the general public doesn't it see it that way
for a couple of reasons: First, if you steal something and the owner has
no way of knowing, did you really steal? Second, if you steal something
and the owner doesn't lose any money out of pocket, did you really steal?
What's the loss? The other rationale is that the person receiving the ill
gotten booty (or is it ill booten gotty?) wouldn't have paid for it
anyway, so there's not even an opportunity loss.

I think it will always be an issue until it's more expensive to copy it
than it is to buy it. After all, you don't see people photocopying entire
books all that often.


I wonder how the music suits would suggest giving 40 songs to 5 different
people in a band.


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