From Chris Fahey Sent Tue, Oct 20th 1998, 13:59
From Chris Fahey Sent Tue, Oct 20th 1998, 13:59
>What is being overlooked here is that MP3s offer small-time, low budget
>artists the ability to be heard by many people through distribution on the
>Internet.
This is exactly Diamond's defense. When I *first* heard about this
device the only thing I could think of was how I and millions of others
could (and certainly would) use it for pirating piles of music, possibly
never paying for music ever again. For a brief moment, I had sympathy for
the record companies.
But Diamond's defense is overwhelmingly potent - free speech and
distribuation thereof beats corporate profitability (or even viability) any
day.
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