99% of convicts claimed they were innocent of any wrongdoing - time to let them go.
99% of college kids claimed they bought the 100 CD's worth of MP3 music obtained from Napster during its operation - gotta love that honor system.
Hogwash - pure and utter hogwash. Want to know why? I've been using Napster awhile now and I can safetly say that I don't even come close to owning even a small percentage of the 6 gigs of MP3's I am now hoarding and I seriously doubt anybody else does either.
Yeah sure I've bought a few CD's that I first heard through Napster - but trust me - those artists have not made a single dime off of me and certainly not off of any of those piss-poor broke College students either. Though two weekends ago I was feeling kinda guilty and bought around $400 worth of CDs - because I felt it was worth supporting the artists who wrote all of that wonderful music.
But as usual this article demonstrates to me just how far Mr. Katz is displaced from the reality the rest of us live in. First he's on his "Geek Inquisition" kick (who cares? The Geeks will feel alot better ten years from now when they find the homecoming king/queen working at Mcdonalds), then we wafts in and out of this "Corporations Taking Over the World" kick and now hes on this "Let Me Get all My Shit for Free because I'm sick of Compensating people for all of their hardwork - kinda like most Linux Users" kick.
In a nutshell - shut the hell up Katz. If you don't understand why people should be able to sell goods/services and receive compensation for them - then by all means pack your shit up and move to Cuba or China. Because you aren't doing any honest person here any sort of service worth taking note of.
The fact is - if the artists and record labels dont want their products distributed for free.... hmmmmm.... I dont think they should have to put up with it. Those artists signed those record contracts - they know the score - like it or not.
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99% of convicts claimed they were innocent of any wrongdoing - time to let them go.
99% of college kids claimed they bought the 100 CD's worth of MP3 music obtained from Napster during its operation - gotta love that honor system.
Hogwash - pure and utter hogwash. Want to know why? I've been using Napster awhile now and I can safetly say that I don't even come close to owning even a small percentage of the 6 gigs of MP3's I am now hoarding and I seriously doubt anybody else does either.
Yeah sure I've bought a few CD's that I first heard through Napster - but trust me - those artists have not made a single dime off of me and certainly not off of any of those piss-poor broke College students either. Though two weekends ago I was feeling kinda guilty and bought around $400 worth of CDs - because I felt it was worth supporting the artists who wrote all of that wonderful music.
But as usual this article demonstrates to me just how far Mr. Katz is displaced from the reality the rest of us live in. First he's on his "Geek Inquisition" kick (who cares? The Geeks will feel alot better ten years from now when they find the homecoming king/queen working at Mcdonalds), then we wafts in and out of this "Corporations Taking Over the World" kick and now hes on this "Let Me Get all My Shit for Free because I'm sick of Compensating people for all of their hardwork - kinda like most Linux Users" kick.
In a nutshell - shut the hell up Katz. If you don't understand why people should be able to sell goods/services and receive compensation for them - then by all means pack your shit up and move to Cuba or China. Because you aren't doing any honest person here any sort of service worth taking note of.
The fact is - if the artists and record labels dont want their products distributed for free.... hmmmmm.... I dont think they should have to put up with it. Those artists signed those record contracts - they know the score - like it or not.
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