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No pirate's life for me

12:48:53 pm mst / 2 March 2001 found by diana / filed in digital media / source ZDNet 50 hits / 1 comment / 0 e-mails

Connie Guglielmo laments the lack of non-pirated digital music available on the internet, as well as a smattering of other net-music problems.

Although I too would love to see a decent digital music service, too many of the arguments in this article seem jumbled, confused, or just silly, such as her lack of objection to paying again and again for property she already owns.

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X-Pirate by MysteriousStranger 4:56:45 pm mst / 2 March 2001 / # 1

Ridding the 'net' of music theft is as crazy as trying to stop software theft. There will ALWAYS be someone there to find a way to make it easy enough for the general public to do it. Unfortunately, the easier it is, the less it seems like a crime. . . especially with all the clepto-addicts trying to 'intelligently' rationalize their crimes. For every reason NOT to pirate software or music, the average addict can come up with 3 reasons why it's not a crime. On the flip-side, there's a LOT of fresh artists benefitting from the free-publicity of thier works. The indie-crowd and the public-domain music is the ONLY true beneficiaries of the NAPSTER phenomenon. Unfortunately, once an artist starts to make money through popularity, they can be certain to be loosing up to 70% income from sales due to pirates. Even more if the artist is 'forced' to sign with a record label. It's a tough business to be in these days, you can't make it if you don't have a good fan-base, but even tougher if your fans are all a bunch of music-swapping criminals. (not a very nice way to pay your respects to your hero's) Anyhow, my opinion is that the only way for the music industry to survive the MP3 boom is to become theoughly involved with services that protect your rights. If your looking for unpirated music, then your only choice is to hit the 'indie' scene. The best on the net is at www.AudioKingdom.com I'm not trying to get 'free-publicity' for my albums there so I won't tell you which artist I am, but they have one of the best services around for artists and audiophiles alike!