================================================ Subject: Re: NCR - A great way for bands to give fans incentives to buy instead of download music From: "Debbi R" To: Date: Sun 17 Jun 2001 02:22:12 -0700 ================================================ Thanks, Keith. Please, don't anybody think I'm on some kind of high horse. Although the vast majority of my music is legally owned by me, I have stuff that I shouldn't have and I've downloaded shareware programs without paying the developer for them. But I'm also well aware that what I'm doing is stealing. It's a choice I make for myself. I don't try very hard to defend it. I wouldn't be able to come up with much of a defense anyway. It's really not unlike someone driving off with your car because you left the keys in it. Sure it was convenient for them; they didn't have to go out of their way to do it, and you made a bad choice by leaving it out there, but any way you slice it, it's stealing. I might be hypersensitive on the issue because I work in the software industry. In some of our global markets, the piracy (bootleg) rate of our products approaches 90%. As a stockholder in my company, that nauseates me. Software and music have similar issues related to intellectual property rights, and are fighting some of the same battles. Just my nickel. DebbiR -----Original Message----- From: Keith Mears [mailto:kthulu@comteck.com] Sent: Saturday, June 16, 2001 9:49 PM To: creedlvr@LAFORNARA.COM; CREED-DISCUSS@WINDUPLIST.COM Subject: Re: Re: NCR - A great way for bands to give fans incentives to buy instead of download music It's like you're reading my mind or something Debbi! I think you are the first person I've talked to who (from what I've read so far) feels exactly the same way I do on this issue. To unsubscribe or change your preferences for the Creed-Discuss list, visit: http://www.winduplist.com/ls/discuss/form.asp