[IP] asks some good questions -- Rampant Piracy in the Music Industry

[Dave Farber <dave@farber.net>]

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From: Anthony Watson <Anthony.Watson@dollarsandsense.com>
Date: Sat, 23 Nov 2002 12:13:31 -0800
To: dave@farber.net
Subject: Rampant Piracy in the Music Industry

BTW:

I find it often a good idea to look for symptoms in the real world of an
alleged problem or look for real world instances taht seem to refute a
particular version of reality.  Let us look at the claims by napster
foes.  Rampant piracy was/is destroying the music industry.  If the claims
of the music industry were really true, one would expect that the big money
makers for the industry would inevitably be new content, since "digital
music piracy" has been around so long now.  However, if that was true, why
would a re-release of old Elvis tunes be a chart topper this year?  Any who
was a rabid fan willing to pay bucks for the CD should have already gotten
these songs digitally and a re-release would have flopped, but it didn't
...why not?  Because the problem is not bad enough to justify extending
cop[yright law out longer and/or rolling back fair use rights of the
consumer, but since the industry wants to do those things for monopolist
monetary reasons this "piracy" is fine excuse to try to roll back "fair
use" rights, which the industry has been upset about since the days of
analog recording.

MHO
AW


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