Music Downloads ('off topic', a bit) - Beyond Tiki

H hanford_lemoore Tiki Socialite Tiki Central Joined: Mar 23, 2002 Posts: 1899	H hanford_lemoore Posted posted on Fri, Jul 5, 2002 12:54 PM On 2002-07-05 07:22, Swanky wrote: You don't pay GM when you buy a used car, you don't pay Capitol when you buy a used CD. There are things to be said along those lines. True. But in both of those cases there's a transfer of ownership, and the transfer of the right to use them. I can sell a used copy of Adobe Photoshop and Adobe doesn't get the money. Their user agreement say I can do this. BUT, if I let you copy the Photoshop CD, or if I keep a working copy of Photoshop on my computer when I sell the CD, then we are clearly pirating. I see no difference between bootlegging software and bootlegging music. They're both copyrighted works, they're both worth more than the media they're delivered on. Broadcasting is a different story, since it's not on-demand. The whole record industry works off of the fact that people who really like music they hear on the radio will want to play it on-demand and therefore spend the money to go out and buy it on CD. Just more thinking, ~Hanford PS. I'm not mad at anyone here and I'm not trying to enforce some sort of "Tiki Centralites don't do Napster" thing, I'm just airing my opinion to a group of peers who I respect

On 2002-07-05 07:22, Swanky wrote:
You don't pay GM when you buy a used car, you don't pay Capitol when you buy a used CD. There are things to be said along those lines.

True. But in both of those cases there's a transfer of ownership, and the transfer of the right to use them.

I can sell a used copy of Adobe Photoshop and Adobe doesn't get the money. Their user agreement say I can do this. BUT, if I let you copy the Photoshop CD, or if I keep a working copy of Photoshop on my computer when I sell the CD, then we are clearly pirating. I see no difference between bootlegging software and bootlegging music. They're both copyrighted works, they're both worth more than the media they're delivered on.

Broadcasting is a different story, since it's not on-demand. The whole record industry works off of the fact that people who really like music they hear on the radio will want to play it on-demand and therefore spend the money to go out and buy it on CD.

Just more thinking,

~Hanford

PS. I'm not mad at anyone here and I'm not trying to enforce some sort of "Tiki Centralites don't do Napster" thing, I'm just airing my opinion to a group of peers who I respect

Post #3334 by hanford_lemoore on Fri, Jul 5, 2002 12:54 PM