Why would this not be a good thing? It would create a way more competitive market for music. It would be alot easier to produce music for sale, an artist would not have to come up with as many songs, and there wouldn't be the cost of getting it pressed. And it would make it possilbe to buy music from amazon.com like links that anyone could put on their web site, making for great websites to find music for a specific taste/genre. Record companies would be a lot less expensive to start up also. People would be getting better prices for music because of the competition. Yea, you wouldn't be able to STEAL music anymore. The only thing that makes stealing music now seams like a good idea is the fact the record companies have a domination on the market and can rip you off. I think it would be good, as long as they distributed command line versions of the program for many os's.
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Why would this not be a good thing? It would create a way more competitive market for music. It would be alot easier to produce music for sale, an artist would not have to come up with as many songs, and there wouldn't be the cost of getting it pressed. And it would make it possilbe to buy music from amazon.com like links that anyone could put on their web site, making for great websites to find music for a specific taste/genre. Record companies would be a lot less expensive to start up also. People would be getting better prices for music because of the competition. Yea, you wouldn't be able to STEAL music anymore. The only thing that makes stealing music now seams like a good idea is the fact the record companies have a domination on the market and can rip you off. I think it would be good, as long as they distributed command line versions of the program for many os's.
the rural people will end up getting faster service than I will on my cable modem.