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Bootlegged Music in Russia
Guppy06 writes "MosNews.com has an interesting article on the thoughts and opinions of everyday Muscovites on the rampant music (et al) piracy in their country. It seems that some of them don't have much trouble justifying it to themselves, with quotes like 'Yes, I know that some of the sellers are here with burned CDs. But they have to earn a living too, I can understand them.' The article also mentions 'In a country where the average monthly salary is about $240, buying the latest album for $15 is a grotesque luxury, let alone spending $600 on Adobe Photoshop or a similar computer program.' Apparently, catchy slogans like 'Listen up, you pirate, I choose copyright!' just aren't working."
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Copyright?
:-)
Bah, guess who invented all that neat stuff like nuclear power, the plane, the jet-plane, the rocket, the car, the computer, video-games and so on?
Correct, germans
Give us patents and copyrights on that stuff back which you took away after some calamity some time ago and in exchange you may keep the patents on the german inventions "communism", "massmedia-propaganda", "genocide" and "nationalsociasm". George makes better use of them anyway. Oh, and you may keep those hard to empty tubes for toothpaste too.
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How dare you be so insightful on slashdot....who do you think you are?
Who are you to say that business owners have thought more about a business than 16 year old losers? Jeez what kinda world do we live in.
what?
at least half of the work is done by the artist,
I'm sorry, but that is utter bullsh*t. Maybe you're talking about indie records? For all mainstream music, the hours the artist puts in are a small fraction of the total person-hours involved in getting that album into stores.
the artist is the closest person involved making the music, works more making that particular music,
Where are you getting these crazy ideas? The artist is the voice. Nothing more. What you're saying is like claiming that Elijah Wood should get 25% of all Lord of the Rings profits, since he put in half the work to make the films, and is the closest person involved in making the films. Can you see what utter bollocks that is?
Musical artists are just voices. They are interchangeable. They don't write their own songs or lyrics. Just like actors don't write their lines. They just speak them. Granted, actors actually have a pretty sweet deal, where they actually do get a hugely disproportionate amount of the profits of the movie. But I'm saying that that is the messed up situation, whereas the music one is the sensible one, rather than the other way around.
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