Little Willie's senseless ramblings

Monday, December 11, 2006

You can't download that.

The entertainment industry keeps raising the alarm against downloading entertainment. Don't download that song/movie/tv show, you're stealing money from the artist when you do that. I find it interesting that the only people complaining about downloading are the people who are already rich because of the content. I've posted my original, copyrighted music on the web, as has my friend Jim -- you want to download and listen to it? Go ahead. We'd get really mad if you started selling it without our permission, or performing it without cutting us in. There are some more reasonable artists who also do the same, so you wonder how huge the problem is. Record sales were the best when the original napster was sharing everything without restraint. But here's what really annoys me.

They say you can't share music, because you don't buy the music, you buy the right to listen to it. OK, I bought Led Zeppelin's In Through the Out Door years ago when I was in high school, and bought it again several years later on cassette. That means I've paid for the rights to listen to it twice right? I should have the option to send one of those in to the record company and have them send me a new CD for the cost of producing it, right? I have all the James Bond films (except Casino Royale) on either tape or DVD, so I shouldn't have to pay full price for the new DVD box sets right? How about this, my 12 year old scratched the hell out of her Barbie Nutcracker DVD, I should be able to send it in for replacement, since I can't legally make a backup safety copy, right?

And they wonder why people download movies...

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