Given the tools and environment it was possible to recreate any sound possible... Acually making a computer recreate something like this organ... is incredibly complicated
What does that mean? Are you using recorded organ samples or is that by the physics of the organ?
1. How do you know it was downloaded thousands of time?
2. How do you know that any of the people who downloaded your music were going to buy it.
3. The point is, if it's really true that everyone is enjoying your creations, then I'm sure a portion would be interested in your future work or would be interested in coming to your shows.
4. Spending $10,000 for a home studio is equivalent to starting a small buisness of your own, and not working for someone else. If you'd sold a million copies of your CD, who would get the money? If your clothing store sells a million piece of whatever they sell, is your paycheck going to vary?
5. That's exactly the point. There's no boss and you are your own boss when making music independently. If you wanted a boss, then why don't you work as a studio musician and play other people's songs for other people to use.
Of course, what a clever way of blaming the Asian programmers for the management's mistakes and supid specs.
If one's going to outsource to people half a world away, they're not going to know what the local company does exactly and it's their best bet to satisfy the specs as close as possible. It's got nothing to do with culture.
Yeah, it's expensive to hire local talent to get it done. But, if the manager is an idiot when it comes to properly putting specs down, then he/she needs to hire local labor, or move to India while the project is being done.
But, anyway, blaming the culture is a nice way to go. Don't blame the programmers nor the manager.
You have the right idea when you say that you should give control to the guy who came up with the idea though I think you got there by a strange path of logic.
Everybody wants changes (including you) towards higher efficiency but nobody wants somebody else's changes imposed on oneself. People who spend most of their time filling TPS reports know what's the best and most efficient, and any other changes imposed by management who have an idea on how it could be more efficient and imposing that is really bad.
I think the role of management is really important. Most people do not see what they want or how to do if efficiently at all. I hated management but then I now realize that I wasn't very efficient.
However, strictly imposing is not right. The role of management is in my opinion to carefully understand the workers and arrange resources as efficiently as possible so that the workers are not limited or hindered.
As an example, I really wished that management would have let me take a few classes at the local university. The classes would be 3 times a week in the middle of the day. I didn't specifically say that I wanted to take classes but always hinted at it. I wished they'd realized and setup some form of oppertunity so that I could take classes.
But, yeah never never try and take control of a project or idea that someone else came up with. I had the same thing done to me. All my ideas would be shelved or put in the back burner and then I would have to work on somebody's else ideas. I thought my ideas were great (and I have to way of verifying if it was true or it was not because it was delayed for no reason).
Well, your concert PA system racks have a compressor on them. So, live music gets the same treatment as recording.
Unless you are going to small acoustic concerts or something, the live band pretty much sounds like their CD to me.
I don't think it's true. I have noticed that in any undergraduate class, the people who do best in math classes are always females. It's just amazingly obvious.
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Math writers are very good writers for what they write. Graduate school in mathematics is nothing more math writing training.
It's true they have to use only a very limited aspect of the English language to convery their ideas. It's like looking at computer code and trying to figure out what it does, instead of looking at what something does and then figuring out where the code for it is and how it work.
I would say that you are ignorant of economics, among other things. The cost of a good or service is determined not only by it's relative value in a given society (in this case, the US vs. Asia), but also by the cost of production. Wages and overhead are lower in some Asian industries than in the US, as is the cost of marketing. Then there is the demand for a given item - the same textbook which cost $100 in the US and $25 in Asia has these price values because that's what the market will bear. This is the basis of a capitalist economy.
Too many levels down and the original idea of the post is lost on this guy. Give me the benefit of the doubt of knowing rudimentary economics and try and figure out what I mean. It's the same damn book (identical!!). The same damn electronic gizmo or things in the same price range doesn't have that quite a price difference. So, it must be that the US market will bear that price (which is right now far far above the cost of production - which I was talking about). But, that isn't a free-market capitalism at work here since textbooks are monopolized. It's the damn middlemen eating up all the money. And, I'm just warning that the future is that the textbook is going to be just a pdf file in web-server. This will be the result of price fixing that is going on.
Kind of like OPEC cutting oil production to raise prices resulting in more money being funneledd into designing alternate fuels and fuel efficient engines.
Failing that, I suggest you go to Asia to buy your textbooks.
A lot of times I do get students returning back from summer to get textbooks for me.
Fascinating! I've been a book editor for twenty years, and you mean I've been taking hardcopy/ASCII/MSWord manuscripts all these years for nothing? Wow, just think of the US$40k in production costs on each book I can save now. Thanks for your huge insight into an art that's served humanity well for over 500 years.
I said textbooks with formulas and complex diagrams. Not cheesy romance novels manuscripts or something!
For TEXTBOOKS, unless the figure has been made by the author or the formula has been typed up by the author, there is a high likelyhood that it's going to be mistyped/mislabelled/misgenerated if someone else is typesetting it from a hand written manuscript. For example, an x could be turned into a v and would make the problem wrong.
I think, Tex was invented after you entered the industry. Maybe it's time you looked into what the whole Tex thing is?
Glad to hear you think publishers are so worthless. I'm sure you'll be totally comfortable living in a house built by someone who learned structural dynamics from resources google coughed out. 99.9999% of the material submitted to a publisher for possible publication is garbage. This is where the publisher earns their keep, sifting out that.0001% of wheat from the chaff and helping the author bring it to market.
Most textbooks are written by leading researchers in the feild or very good instructors. Note TEXTBOOKS. They have used it in classes and know how it should be taught. I just wish these people would just put their notes and manuscript online so anyone can get to them. Of course, the college TEXTBOOK publisher should be relegated to the lowest bidder who can convert the given document into a dead tree and get it to the college bookstore one week before the begining of the semester, not zero-value adders who think they deserve a lot of money for doing nothing.
Well, I know of college textbooks and I was ranting about college textbooks. True, I don't know much about others. I don't know what the heck the difference between College books and College textbooks are but maybe you mean you publish cliff notes type books?? Not real college books?
No, it's not the bookstores. The suggested retail price of the book is determined by the publisher. As an example, books that cost $100 in the US usually cost $25 in Asian countries. They are identical in every respect. How do you explain that? It's just the publisher chooses a different price. The online and store prices hardly vary.
Finally, the point about it being in Tex or some sort of electronic format was that it was just basically 15 mins away from being coverted to a format that could be put up on the web (like ps or pdf) for anyone to download and read.
Developmental editing (telling the author "this is the sort of thing you need to be discussing here," "this really isn't necessary here"), production editing (everything people complain about on Slashdot: "you don't know the difference between a plural and a singular, do you?" to "this is actually a condition contrary to fact, so you should use the subjunctive in the protasis and the indicative in the apodosis" to "I know they use single quotes in England, but we follow the Chicago Manual"), imprint (this book is good enough to be called an Oxford University Press book), and marketing.
You think someone who probably has PhD in the field and is a leading researcher in his/her subject needs someone else to be saying that. The point of the book is that it's the author's expert view of the subject on what is important and should be emphasized, how it should be presented and what order it should be presented.
Most publishers don't do that. Sure, some of the fly by nighters do, and some in the sciences, but most commercial publishers don't.
A professor I know got his word.doc manuscript rejected and had to be typed in Tex. Every book in science that has formulas and diagrams would make sense to be required to be submitted in Tex.
Yeah, my Calc professor did a great job with that... he couldn't even spell the title of the textbook right. And it was his text book. No, I won't say the title, but it was two words one would think any mathematician could spell.
Now, if you could come up with some alternative financing for the developmental and production editing, and for the acquisitions editing, so that the everything but the marketing could be done in an open manner (free as in freedom), I'd be for that.
Well, you caught the error. So, that's not really a counter-example. I hope you read more than the title.
Well, as the recent author of a "ridiculously-priced" textbook, let me disagree.
Since I've sold my soul and asked my students to pay a hefty fee for something I could have just given them as a pdf document, let me state my rationization!
Yes, I used the manuscript in class, so many mistakes were caught in advance. Yes, I submitted in LaTeX (the publisher wanted Word, LaTeX was my choice).
However, there is a *huge* difference from a student perspective (I know, I had to read the complaints) between a manuscript where many of the mistakes have been caught and one where almost all have been caught. In my case many got caught by the publisher, who found and engaged high quality people whose job was to go over every page and check the examples and cross references, etc. Students simply aren't sure when it is a mistake and when they don't understand something. The published book also looks a heck of a lot better than my.pdf manuscript. Maybe this matters more than it should, but it matters.
I don't know what kind of book you're writing or what kind of students you have in your class, or how you didn't catch error when you taught the class yourself but I think most pdf manuscripts that are out on the web that didn't go the way of publication are 99% error free after a few semesters of students and teaching. ( I know of math/science stuff only). I don't get how a pdf can look worse than a book. Maybe you don't have a good printer/monitor?
Finally, marketing. I was sort of assuming that if my book was high quality it would sell itself, since the market is well-defined. It doesn't. I've discovered that a lot of potential adopters are uncertain about some of the things I've done differently. The publisher's marketing efforts provide a channel through which I can make my case.
Of course, you have to market a book for your class. It's not really a required purchase is it?
As for your so-called adpoters, what the hell does a channel thru which to make your case mean? I always thought the publishers bribed someone to get the textbook adpoted. It always seemed fishy when all the books in the department's 100 level classes were by the same publisher one semester and by another publisher a year later.
So I don't feel abused. I feel that the publisher added significant value and committed real resources. I know that not all authors feel this way, but I do.
Of course you don't. You didn't have the buy the friggin book!
The press with which I have experience largely works in college books and things like law books (ie, nonfiction). All publishers devote a signifigant amount of resources to sending people out to schools to get prospective sales--meaning more royalties for the author.
College textbooks are the prime example of where the middle-man should be cut. The middle man is so bloated and large for college textbooks that the price of textbooks are ridiculous. And, what do the editors do?
First of all, they demand that the textbook be submitted in Tex (so all typesetting is done). Second, a preliminary copy of the book would have been used in a professor's class (so it would have 99% of the mistakes weeded out). So, all the middle men fucking do is make money. I guess, for lower level classes, it takes a lot of work to "convince" professors to assign a $130 book when there's an equally good book for $20 (or a free downloadable book,lecture-notes from a website), or ask professors to upgrade the requirement to the alternate version or the web-enhanced version of the book so that student has to buy a new copy instead of a used copy.
You can rationalize all you want about publishers being so important. Sooner or later, professors are going to assign textbooks are ps files to download and the publishers are going to go. Not needed in the college textbooks scene at all.
Don't know about other kind of books. But, I can't remember the last book that I bought that wasn't a college textbook.
that's one less asshole to worry about. Only 1 billion to go!
The world population is 6.3 billion. If 1 billion was 20% of the world population, then the world population should have been 5 billion. Inconsistency, in the original post.
Former FTC chairman Robert Pitofsky said at the time that consumers had been overcharged by $480 million since 1997 and that CD prices would soon drop by as much as $5 a CD as a result.
Now, then it won't be worth the time finding all the tracks to the CD on P2P.
Music on P2P is not a tool or a utility. Once a person has used or listened to a CD a number of times or read a book, he or she is not going to keep doing that for the rest of the useful life of the CD or book, in contrast to software which you use over and over again. However, the people who buy books are one who have a collection or use it for more than just reading thru it once. I am suggesting maybe it could be the same with CDs, except that instead of a library we have P2P. Sometimes a library is out of a certain book and have to put the item on hold. It serves no use that something is not available to checkout in a library except that it is a physical constraint. Sure, music is being duplicated via P2P but maybe that isn't so bad. Maybe this is the next level of what a library should be like where there are no checked out items, just all available.
If it was software, then it is a valid point. That is why I think the only software that libraries have are ones that are multimedia discs like GRE exams that are not utilities but something that you use once or a finite number of times.
Let me ask your opinion on another scenario. Suppose you put a CD out and your local library buys a copy and puts it on the shelf so anyone (with a valid library card) can take it home and listen to it.
Suppose you don't like library patrons listening to your music for free. Should you be allowed to release your CD stating that this CD cannot be put in a library to be loaned? What about a book or a movie?
So, this is not music piracy and does not violate any of your 4 canons. Now, with P2P sharing of your work, no-one is gaining any money and thus would not put under music piracy but maybe 'unauthorized copying'. So, in a way, this does not violate your 4 canons as well.
My point is that maybe P2P sharing of copyrighted work is not so bad at all. Libraries do it. The idea that anyone can just download your song and appreciate it without charge is similar to anyone can go and borrow a book and read it. Maybe the music industry has reached a point where it is going in the way of the book publishing industry. Let go of the massive promotions and just cut the cost to recording and reproduction, and live with P2P. That, I think, would be culturally optimal.
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Wait a minute. If I wanted to make a square wave, then I add all the odd harmonics to it? There are an infinte number of odd numbers!!!!
What does that mean? Are you using recorded organ samples or is that by the physics of the organ?
1. How do you know it was downloaded thousands of time?
2. How do you know that any of the people who downloaded your music were going to buy it.
3. The point is, if it's really true that everyone is enjoying your creations, then I'm sure a portion would be interested in your future work or would be interested in coming to your shows.
4. Spending $10,000 for a home studio is equivalent to starting a small buisness of your own, and not working for someone else. If you'd sold a million copies of your CD, who would get the money? If your clothing store sells a million piece of whatever they sell, is your paycheck going to vary?
5. That's exactly the point. There's no boss and you are your own boss when making music independently. If you wanted a boss, then why don't you work as a studio musician and play other people's songs for other people to use.
Yeah, sure.
Of course, what a clever way of blaming the Asian programmers for the management's mistakes and supid specs.
If one's going to outsource to people half a world away, they're not going to know what the local company does exactly and it's their best bet to satisfy the specs as close as possible. It's got nothing to do with culture.
Yeah, it's expensive to hire local talent to get it done. But, if the manager is an idiot when it comes to properly putting specs down, then he/she needs to hire local labor, or move to India while the project is being done.
But, anyway, blaming the culture is a nice way to go. Don't blame the programmers nor the manager.
You have the right idea when you say that you should give control to the guy who came up with the idea though I think you got there by a strange path of logic.
Everybody wants changes (including you) towards higher efficiency but nobody wants somebody else's changes imposed on oneself. People who spend most of their time filling TPS reports know what's the best and most efficient, and any other changes imposed by management who have an idea on how it could be more efficient and imposing that is really bad.
I think the role of management is really important. Most people do not see what they want or how to do if efficiently at all. I hated management but then I now realize that I wasn't very efficient.
However, strictly imposing is not right. The role of management is in my opinion to carefully understand the workers and arrange resources as efficiently as possible so that the workers are not limited or hindered.
As an example, I really wished that management would have let me take a few classes at the local university. The classes would be 3 times a week in the middle of the day. I didn't specifically say that I wanted to take classes but always hinted at it. I wished they'd realized and setup some form of oppertunity so that I could take classes.
But, yeah never never try and take control of a project or idea that someone else came up with. I had the same thing done to me. All my ideas would be shelved or put in the back burner and then I would have to work on somebody's else ideas. I thought my ideas were great (and I have to way of verifying if it was true or it was not because it was delayed for no reason).
Now, I'm in grad school and taking classes.
Well, your concert PA system racks have a compressor on them. So, live music gets the same treatment as recording. Unless you are going to small acoustic concerts or something, the live band pretty much sounds like their CD to me.
regurgitated hooks that are over-produced and heavily compressed.
What the hell does over compressed mean?
Are you complaining about the over-use of loudness maximizer used in today's CDs or what?
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Hehe. That's a good logical error catch. That's very astute of you.
Well, I read the sentence was "females are better at English compared to males than Math compared to males.
But, I guess you know what I was talking about.
Females are better at english than math
I don't think it's true. I have noticed that in any undergraduate class, the people who do best in math classes are always females. It's just amazingly obvious.
Math writers are very good writers for what they write. Graduate school in mathematics is nothing more math writing training.
It's true they have to use only a very limited aspect of the English language to convery their ideas. It's like looking at computer code and trying to figure out what it does, instead of looking at what something does and then figuring out where the code for it is and how it work.
I would say that you are ignorant of economics, among other things. The cost of a good or service is determined not only by it's relative value in a given society (in this case, the US vs. Asia), but also by the cost of production. Wages and overhead are lower in some Asian industries than in the US, as is the cost of marketing. Then there is the demand for a given item - the same textbook which cost $100 in the US and $25 in Asia has these price values because that's what the market will bear. This is the basis of a capitalist economy.
Too many levels down and the original idea of the post is lost on this guy. Give me the benefit of the doubt of knowing rudimentary economics and try and figure out what I mean. It's the same damn book (identical!!). The same damn electronic gizmo or things in the same price range doesn't have that quite a price difference. So, it must be that the US market will bear that price (which is right now far far above the cost of production - which I was talking about). But, that isn't a free-market capitalism at work here since textbooks are monopolized. It's the damn middlemen eating up all the money. And, I'm just warning that the future is that the textbook is going to be just a pdf file in web-server. This will be the result of price fixing that is going on.
Kind of like OPEC cutting oil production to raise prices resulting in more money being funneledd into designing alternate fuels and fuel efficient engines.
Failing that, I suggest you go to Asia to buy your textbooks.
A lot of times I do get students returning back from summer to get textbooks for me.
Fascinating! I've been a book editor for twenty years, and you mean I've been taking hardcopy/ASCII/MSWord manuscripts all these years for nothing? Wow, just think of the US$40k in production costs on each book I can save now. Thanks for your huge insight into an art that's served humanity well for over 500 years.
I said textbooks with formulas and complex diagrams. Not cheesy romance novels manuscripts or something!
For TEXTBOOKS, unless the figure has been made by the author or the formula has been typed up by the author, there is a high likelyhood that it's going to be mistyped/mislabelled/misgenerated if someone else is typesetting it from a hand written manuscript. For example, an x could be turned into a v and would make the problem wrong.
I think, Tex was invented after you entered the industry. Maybe it's time you looked into what the whole Tex thing is?
Glad to hear you think publishers are so worthless. I'm sure you'll be totally comfortable living in a house built by someone who learned structural dynamics from resources google coughed out. 99.9999% of the material submitted to a publisher for possible publication is garbage. This is where the publisher earns their keep, sifting out that .0001% of wheat from the chaff and helping the author bring it to market.
Most textbooks are written by leading researchers in the feild or very good instructors. Note TEXTBOOKS. They have used it in classes and know how it should be taught. I just wish these people would just put their notes and manuscript online so anyone can get to them. Of course, the college TEXTBOOK publisher should be relegated to the lowest bidder who can convert the given document into a dead tree and get it to the college bookstore one week before the begining of the semester, not zero-value adders who think they deserve a lot of money for doing nothing.
Well, I know of college textbooks and I was ranting about college textbooks. True, I don't know much about others. I don't know what the heck the difference between College books and College textbooks are but maybe you mean you publish cliff notes type books?? Not real college books?
No, it's not the bookstores. The suggested retail price of the book is determined by the publisher. As an example, books that cost $100 in the US usually cost $25 in Asian countries. They are identical in every respect. How do you explain that? It's just the publisher chooses a different price. The online and store prices hardly vary.
Finally, the point about it being in Tex or some sort of electronic format was that it was just basically 15 mins away from being coverted to a format that could be put up on the web (like ps or pdf) for anyone to download and read.
Developmental editing (telling the author "this is the sort of thing you need to be discussing here," "this really isn't necessary here"), production editing (everything people complain about on Slashdot: "you don't know the difference between a plural and a singular, do you?" to "this is actually a condition contrary to fact, so you should use the subjunctive in the protasis and the indicative in the apodosis" to "I know they use single quotes in England, but we follow the Chicago Manual"), imprint (this book is good enough to be called an Oxford University Press book), and marketing.
You think someone who probably has PhD in the field and is a leading researcher in his/her subject needs someone else to be saying that. The point of the book is that it's the author's expert view of the subject on what is important and should be emphasized, how it should be presented and what order it should be presented.
Most publishers don't do that. Sure, some of the fly by nighters do, and some in the sciences, but most commercial publishers don't.
A professor I know got his word .doc manuscript rejected and had to be typed in Tex. Every book in science that has formulas and diagrams would make sense to be required to be submitted in Tex.
Yeah, my Calc professor did a great job with that... he couldn't even spell the title of the textbook right. And it was his text book. No, I won't say the title, but it was two words one would think any mathematician could spell. Now, if you could come up with some alternative financing for the developmental and production editing, and for the acquisitions editing, so that the everything but the marketing could be done in an open manner (free as in freedom), I'd be for that.
Well, you caught the error. So, that's not really a counter-example. I hope you read more than the title.
Well, as the recent author of a "ridiculously-priced" textbook, let me disagree.
Since I've sold my soul and asked my students to pay a hefty fee for something I could have just given them as a pdf document, let me state my rationization!
Yes, I used the manuscript in class, so many mistakes were caught in advance. Yes, I submitted in LaTeX (the publisher wanted Word, LaTeX was my choice). However, there is a *huge* difference from a student perspective (I know, I had to read the complaints) between a manuscript where many of the mistakes have been caught and one where almost all have been caught. In my case many got caught by the publisher, who found and engaged high quality people whose job was to go over every page and check the examples and cross references, etc. Students simply aren't sure when it is a mistake and when they don't understand something. The published book also looks a heck of a lot better than my .pdf manuscript. Maybe this matters more than it should, but it matters.
I don't know what kind of book you're writing or what kind of students you have in your class, or how you didn't catch error when you taught the class yourself but I think most pdf manuscripts that are out on the web that didn't go the way of publication are 99% error free after a few semesters of students and teaching. ( I know of math/science stuff only). I don't get how a pdf can look worse than a book. Maybe you don't have a good printer/monitor?
Finally, marketing. I was sort of assuming that if my book was high quality it would sell itself, since the market is well-defined. It doesn't. I've discovered that a lot of potential adopters are uncertain about some of the things I've done differently. The publisher's marketing efforts provide a channel through which I can make my case.
Of course, you have to market a book for your class. It's not really a required purchase is it?
As for your so-called adpoters, what the hell does a channel thru which to make your case mean? I always thought the publishers bribed someone to get the textbook adpoted. It always seemed fishy when all the books in the department's 100 level classes were by the same publisher one semester and by another publisher a year later.
So I don't feel abused. I feel that the publisher added significant value and committed real resources. I know that not all authors feel this way, but I do.
Of course you don't. You didn't have the buy the friggin book!
The press with which I have experience largely works in college books and things like law books (ie, nonfiction). All publishers devote a signifigant amount of resources to sending people out to schools to get prospective sales--meaning more royalties for the author.
College textbooks are the prime example of where the middle-man should be cut. The middle man is so bloated and large for college textbooks that the price of textbooks are ridiculous. And, what do the editors do?
First of all, they demand that the textbook be submitted in Tex (so all typesetting is done). Second, a preliminary copy of the book would have been used in a professor's class (so it would have 99% of the mistakes weeded out). So, all the middle men fucking do is make money. I guess, for lower level classes, it takes a lot of work to "convince" professors to assign a $130 book when there's an equally good book for $20 (or a free downloadable book,lecture-notes from a website), or ask professors to upgrade the requirement to the alternate version or the web-enhanced version of the book so that student has to buy a new copy instead of a used copy.
You can rationalize all you want about publishers being so important. Sooner or later, professors are going to assign textbooks are ps files to download and the publishers are going to go. Not needed in the college textbooks scene at all.
Don't know about other kind of books. But, I can't remember the last book that I bought that wasn't a college textbook.
WTF? What if it is copyrighted? I could copyright my song and still distribute it legally on a P2P network.
A lot of open source code is copyrighted and it is perfectly legal to distribute over a P2P netowrk.
that's one less asshole to worry about. Only 1 billion to go!
The world population is 6.3 billion. If 1 billion was 20% of the world population, then the world population should have been 5 billion. Inconsistency, in the original post.
Former FTC chairman Robert Pitofsky said at the time that consumers had been overcharged by $480 million since 1997 and that CD prices would soon drop by as much as $5 a CD as a result.
Now, then it won't be worth the time finding all the tracks to the CD on P2P.
Of course, you are assuming that "geniuses" are born and not made, which I think is a big assumption.
Music on P2P is not a tool or a utility. Once a person has used or listened to a CD a number of times or read a book, he or she is not going to keep doing that for the rest of the useful life of the CD or book, in contrast to software which you use over and over again. However, the people who buy books are one who have a collection or use it for more than just reading thru it once. I am suggesting maybe it could be the same with CDs, except that instead of a library we have P2P. Sometimes a library is out of a certain book and have to put the item on hold. It serves no use that something is not available to checkout in a library except that it is a physical constraint. Sure, music is being duplicated via P2P but maybe that isn't so bad. Maybe this is the next level of what a library should be like where there are no checked out items, just all available.
If it was software, then it is a valid point. That is why I think the only software that libraries have are ones that are multimedia discs like GRE exams that are not utilities but something that you use once or a finite number of times.
Let me ask your opinion on another scenario. Suppose you put a CD out and your local library buys a copy and puts it on the shelf so anyone (with a valid library card) can take it home and listen to it.
Suppose you don't like library patrons listening to your music for free. Should you be allowed to release your CD stating that this CD cannot be put in a library to be loaned? What about a book or a movie?
So, this is not music piracy and does not violate any of your 4 canons. Now, with P2P sharing of your work, no-one is gaining any money and thus would not put under music piracy but maybe 'unauthorized copying'. So, in a way, this does not violate your 4 canons as well.
My point is that maybe P2P sharing of copyrighted work is not so bad at all. Libraries do it. The idea that anyone can just download your song and appreciate it without charge is similar to anyone can go and borrow a book and read it. Maybe the music industry has reached a point where it is going in the way of the book publishing industry. Let go of the massive promotions and just cut the cost to recording and reproduction, and live with P2P. That, I think, would be culturally optimal.
You cannot base your entire theory on 1 example!!!!