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A Musician's Take on File Sharing, DRM, and Copyleft Licensing | |
| Subject: | Mp3 Helps, the record industy hurt themselves | |
| Date: | 2003-06-11 01:38:14 | |
| From: | anonymous2 | |
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I downloaded a random mp3 I hadnt heard of on a whim. I loved the track so much that I decided to buy the CD. I couldnt, as it wasnt for sale in this country. I took several weeks to arrange to import it from america. How am I supposed to buy music that isn't for sale? How would I have known of its existance without P2P?
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Mp3 Helps, the record industy hurt themselves
2003-06-11 08:50:49 anonymous2 [Reply | View]
that's all well and good but the simple fact is for every one person who "downloads" an mp3 they "find" on the internet and then purchases a cd, there about a hundred that don't buy a copy.
the artists lose.
(and its your opinion that cd sales are down soley because of britney - pop. that's part of the reason but the wholesale theft of copyrighted materials with tools like kazaa and limewire have played their part too.)
Don't be so naive and respond with the typical RIAA is evil therefore i can steal bull-lony.
Hello everyone,
For a college project my group is doing a presentation to a class of 35 about MP3's and how it hurts the artists with the objective of getting people to buy the music. Bassically everyone knows it's wrong, but you feel like a sucker for paying $12.99 for something you can easily get for free. One of main aruguments for MP3's is 'well so what they'er [whatever artist] making one million a year instead of three million.' So what I'm looking for is someone that is very hurt by MP3 use. Like let's say in 1997 they made $15,000 from live concerts and $15,000 from CD sales, but when MP3's came out there CD sales went down 90% and they had to get jobs also and focus less on their music as a result, which further decreased their music revenues. Any artists with a true story of this kind please e-mail me at chessguyjim@aol.com and we will use your personal story in our presentation, we feel that an emotional appeal will be extremely helpful to our cause.