Post #19353 by Swanky on Mon, Jan 13, 2003 5:52 PM

Yes, Hanford, you are right of course.

I have some very lengthy and thought out rationalizations I won't bore people with.

Let's just say there is the world where a few people own a few original records that get worse and worse in quality and more and more difficult to hear, or a world where fans share the music they love to make it more available.

There has been a slippery slope of copying and ownership rights since the first recording was sent over a radio wave. That slope has always been bridged by the value of promotion equaling the cost of royalties.

Then came tapes and CDs. It moved things on further, past that early ideal as people verbatim copied copyright material. The Internet has made that an even bigger problem.

But as for the rights of the owners, there is a simple point to what they want done with their music: they want it to be heard. Else why record it on records and sell them?