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South Korean Music Retailers Dying
terrymaster69 writes "According to this Reuters feature, 95% of South Korean music retail businesses have failed in the last year. 'While South Korea is not alone in seeing a downturn, the drop has been greatly accentuated and particularly deep because of the country's high-speed Internet access and a youth culture that uses some of the most sophisticated gadgets available.' Is this really a problem or just a natural progression?"
Did Netcraft confirm it?
*ducks*
"Backups are for wimps. Real men upload their data to an FTP site and have everyone else mirror it." -- Linus Torvalds
They will start a fresh more intensive drive to put the falling sales on "piracy" and "file sharing"...
RIAA will portray musicians as starving somalis who have to sell their souls to lawyers to fight for them...
INDUCE act will be reintroduced by Orrin Hatch and will be passed by 284-0
"Doing what i can, with what i have." ~ Burt Gummer
...Kim Jong Il has gone way too far now. It was one thing when he was developing nuclear weapons (hell, the US didn't seem to care), but now he's killing the South Korean recording industry? For shame.
Is this really a problem or just a natural progression?
Well, much depends on if you are a Korean music retailer or not.
Rome taught me patience and assiduous application to detail. Virtues which temper the boldness of great, general views.
"...Check out, for example, the Asylum Street Spankers...."
This sounds disconcertingly like a product of the band name generator
T&K.
Political language
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In Other News, the Horse Trough Industry Association moved today to criminalize the use of the automobile.
"Automobiles are infernal machines that stink, make noise and are cutting into our bottom line," Christopher Fisk, barrister for HTIA, said earlier this afternoon.
HTIA is pressing legislation to impose tough penalties on non-horsetrough users.
Intolerance for ambiguity is the mark of the authoritarian personality.
When will the horror end?
If an MP3 is not ripped, does it make a sound?
Tyler: You don't know where ive been, Lou. YOU DONT KNOW WHERE IVE BEEN!!
South Korean Music Retailers Dying
I've got to admit - I thought this was going to be a story about hitmen wacking small business owners in some new untraceable way that made it look like natural causes.
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Besides, there's also folk music and street performers
Yeah, my girlfriend and I were heading out for dinner and a concert, but I'll let her know that after dinner we'll be sitting on the street listening to a panhandler play the spoons.
Sharing an .mp3 file is not "stealing music". If I steal something from you, I deprive you of what was once yours to do with as you please. Filesharing does not satisfy this definition
Yes, it does.
I have a value that I place on my work.
You place a value on my work too - otherwise you would not go to the effort to copy it.
You give me nothing in return for my work - not what I value it at, not what you value it at. You take it outright.
That is stealing - or taking without fair trade in return.
It doesn't matter how easy it is to copy something - that is a red herring.
I'd be interested to hear how one could boycott the RIAA and still pay for 90% of the music you hear on the radio.
You would have to put off your gratification, and not pay for that music. You would not get the chance to 'own' that music, period. You would have to do without.
Most people don't actually give a damn about the RIAA - it's just a nice scapegoat they came up with - so they just copy the music and claim that they're doing it to stick it to the man. Really, they're copying it because they want music for free, without paying the creator for the privilege. They're freeloaders. Wastrels. Bums. Panhandlers - but worse, they take what they want without asking for it.
Any attempts to criminalize an exchange of music, (or art, or digital reproduction of any kind,) when the people sharing are not attempting to sell it, are nothing more than a thuggish cartel trying to bully the populace into adhering to a system that allows their parasitic existence.
Funny... speaking as someone who makes a living by creating intellectual property... I'm not a cartel. I'm also not a thug. And no, I'm not trying to bully the populace.
And if you think I have a parasitic existence? I'm the one creating things which are being copied wholesale by people who think that they have a God-given right to the fruits of MY hard work.
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