If you pirate music, you're downloading communism!

[mike coleman]

but this argumenat is about a nasty plague bestowed onto the people since
about 1987
replacing music made by people for the people with, erm
ALIEN CRAP
where's the vinyl in this???
I still remember Neil Young's words "the mind is tricked but the heart is
sad"
attack the record companie's employees as they exit to go home and for god
sake
STEAL EVERYTHING that does not measure 12 x 12
no, I am not serious
I enjoyed posting it though

On 3/25/09, M Holmes <fofp at holyrood.ed.ac.uk> wrote:
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> Albert Bouchard writes:
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> > So I guess you think it's OK to steal music? What about other stuff?
> > My 2 cents…
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> In fact my views on this will surprise many, since I actually do
> advocate communism on this issue.
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> I believe the tech will for the forseeable future be such that piracy of
> movies/music/books is going to be possible and indeed easy. So how do we
> organise things so that punters can easily download what they want when
> they want, and still arrange for the originators/promoters to be paid?
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> The same problem came up with radio broadcasting and we came up with the
> whole Performing Rights arrangements.
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> With computer networks, we can apply the same model in a better way:
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> Charge, through network access providers, each and every denizen of the
> interweb, one Dollar per week for access.  For that they get access to
> everything.  Use the web itself to count accesses and then distribute the
> cash in some way proportional to what's popular and what it cost to
> produce and distribute it. Something along those lines would ensure that
> folks do get paid for creative endeavour while ensuring that the punters
> can get what they want as and when they want it.
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> Of course, as with the BBC Licence Fee, the entertainment industries
> would thereafter constantly be in a political battle to try to get the
> user fee increased in order to have more pie to share out.  Those sorts
> of battles though have to be better than fights in Court to sue their
> own fans into bankruptcy.
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> So there you have it: this libertarian wants some communism.
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