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jaklumen
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More on the ethics of P2P file sharing (yeah, another "Napster" item)
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Dec 12 05:56 UTC 2002 |
Moving away from the usual webpasting and news sharing:
What exactly is moving the explosion of Internet piracy?
Is it people who are poor, and more importantly, can't afford current
CD prices?
Is it mostly teens with too much free time on their hands? If I
understand correctly, that's the malleable market-- teens tastes
fluctuate wildly with the times, and so the music business aims at this
market? After all, older people's tastes in general don't seem to
change much.
Is it because people would prefer to collect hit songs than complete
albums?
Does internet piracy cut into music sales, or does it encourage
purchasing of new music?
On that note, are new acts gaining exposure on file sharing networks?
I'm not sure about KaZaA, but I know Grokster promotes new acts on
their web site. Or are users just collecting known hits?
How *does* copyright law extend to P2P file sharing?
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anderyn
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Dec 12 13:19 UTC 2002 |
Hmmm. All very good questions. I know that I download songs (from legal sites,
although I have friends who've gotten songs from P2P) because I want to hear
them but I don't feel confident buying the album -- or the album isn't
available anymore or yet... For example, I have several songs downloaded from
Pegasus Music's free website of songs from their upcoming albums. Didn't stop
me from buying the albums as soon as they became available (I have one that
just came out yesterday in my hot little hands, in fact). It just gave me a
taste that made me WANT to buy the album even more. In other cases, I might
try to find a song because I want THAT song, but I don't want to buy a whole
album (case in point -- I wanted a copy of "It's Raining Men" but I couldn't
find an 80s anthology that had it nor did any of my friends have a copy). But
I'm middle-aged, so I'm probably not the person to answer this item. I'll see
if I can get my son and/or his best friend to tell me why they frequent the
P2P sites and download far too much music. :-)
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scott
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Dec 12 13:59 UTC 2002 |
Easy, new CDs are often priced up to $18.99 and a lot of them suck. Peopele
would rather download something old much cheaper, even if they end up not
liking it. It such to pay a bunch of money for a CD when you only want the
single.
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mynxcat
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Dec 12 16:39 UTC 2002 |
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anderyn
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Dec 13 00:10 UTC 2002 |
I don't know about that -- most of the CDs I buy have more good songs than
bad on them, but then again, I'm not buying pop music.
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mynxcat
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Dec 13 04:15 UTC 2002 |
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jaklumen
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Dec 13 09:10 UTC 2002 |
I ask the question because die-hard fans of artists *don't* generally
get the "Greatest Hits" albums like some other passers-by; they more
often have the entire recordings.
-But- are they in the majority, or would far more people rather pick
and choose hit songs from various artists? On the one side, you
collect the entirety of an artist's work; on the other side, you rip
and burn a more eclectic mix.
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mcnally
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Dec 13 09:14 UTC 2002 |
You know I hear the "I don't want to pay for a whole album with only two
good tracks" complaint often enough but I can't figure out whether the
people complaining are just buying music that's very different from what
I listen to or whether it's my personal tastes in music but I encounter
the problem pretty rarely -- probably on fewer than one disc in eight
among those discs I buy on impulse (and fewer still on discs which aren't
impulse buys.) Is the quality-to-filler ratio that much higher in
whatever popular musical marketing niche people are favoring these days
or is there something else which explains why other people find this to
be a widespread problem when I find it to be an occasional disappointment?
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