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Originally posted by MrWendal
reply to post by Jean Paul Zodeaux
Technically the artist can be held liable for leaking their music by the Record Companies. The Artist do not actually own the rights to the music they created, the Record companies do. Unless specified through other contractual agreements. Perhaps I am wrong, but that is my understanding.
Originally posted by MrWendal
reply to post by Jean Paul Zodeaux
Technically the artist can be held liable for leaking their music by the Record Companies. The Artist do not actually own the rights to the music they created, the Record companies do. Unless specified through other contractual agreements. Perhaps I am wrong, but that is my understanding.
Originally posted by mnmcandiez
reply to post by Jean Paul Zodeaux
Law is absolute? lol what about Jim Crow Laws?
Things change......
Originally posted by Jean Paul Zodeaux
reply to post by Resonant
Nope. I understood perfectly what you were getting at. You walked up to this perfectly pristine pond and took a stick and stirred the mud profusely. You offered up a hypothetical of which you ask us all to believe is standard practices with record labels. Just take your word for it, the guy with the stick that he keeps using to muddy up pristine ponds, that record labels really do orchestrate schemes where they will covertly release an album they ultimately want to sell for free download, and do so in a way as to make it appear as if it is a forbidden download, because even though they are using this strategy to create excitement over sales of the new record, if they just tried to give the record away for free and lawfully, no one would want it, but if they arrange it in a way where people think they are stealing it, then people will take the free product and get so excited about this free product that they think they stole that they will turn right around and buy it.
Yeah right.
Can't give it away, but if we convince people they're stealing our product, then they'll buy it. Uh-huh. That psychology sure gets complicated, does it not?
Originally posted by Jean Paul Zodeaux
Originally posted by mnmcandiez
reply to post by Jean Paul Zodeaux
Law is absolute? lol what about Jim Crow Laws?
Things change......
The so called "Jim Crow Laws" were not law, merely legislation. Legislation is not law, and lately not even evidence of law.
Originally posted by Jean Paul Zodeaux
reply to post by Resonant
No, I am not going to take the word of someone who is advocating theft as a valid form of marketing. Your anecdotal "evidence", is just that, anecdotal. You cannot possibly be good for the "independent" labels you work for if you honestly believe that advocating the theft of music is good for business.
Originally posted by Jean Paul Zodeaux
reply to post by Resonant
No, I am not going to take the word of someone who is advocating theft as a valid form of marketing. Your anecdotal "evidence", is just that, anecdotal. You cannot possibly be good for the "independent" labels you work for if you honestly believe that advocating the theft of music is good for business.
This is where we simply have to agree to disagree. You call it theft, but in my opinion the real theft is what the record companies have been doing to the artist for decades.
Originally posted by Rockdisjoint
How can you steal something that you never take?
When I walk home from school I often hear people listening to music in their cars, am I stealing their music then?
Originally posted by daskakik
reply to post by Jean Paul Zodeaux
Downloading is not taking it is copying. When your done downloading the original file is still there. What was taken?
If I take a picture of your car (digital copy) does that mean I carjacked you?