If you pirate music, you're downloading communism!

[Ian Abrahams]

OK. Well, when someone tires of his music, or received and didn't like it in the first place, and donates it to Oxfam, I'm sure whoever is straving and looking for Oxfam's help will opt of money generated from selling his stuff secondhand :)

Still my point is that new product is sold priced in the knowledge that a percentage will sell on.

Ian




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From: gary shindler <bewlay68 at YAHOO.COM>
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Garth Brooks has (I know there are lots of his fans on the list). 




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Books, CDs etc must all be priced to amortise the fact that a percentage will get sold on again. I've heard of artists agains taping but I've never heard of any against secondhand shops.




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From: Carl Edlund Anderson <cea at CARLAZ.COM>
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On 25 Mar 2009, at 09:46, gary shindler wrote:
> I even try not to buy used copies, the artist doesn't get any pay for that.


Well, the artist _did_ get paid when the first person bought it.  :)  Otherwise, with this argument, we may as well say that renting an apartment is immoral because the architect or construction workers aren't getting a continuing cut of the building they designed or built. :)

Cheers,
Carl

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