================================================ Subject: Re: NCR - A great way for bands to give fans incentives to buy instead of download music From: "Debbi R" To: Date: Mon 18 Jun 2001 16:12:02 -0700 ================================================ Bands and record companies suing individuals that make a copy or 10 is just plain stupid, imo. It's much easier for me to see their justification for suing sharing sites and other "distribution" points. The Offspring example you give is a great illustration of how musicians, for the most part, simply don't have ownership or control over their own material. I think there's something inherently wrong with that. Unfortunately, to get a contract, they have to sign those rights away. DebbiR -----Original Message----- From: Creed Discussion List [mailto:CREED-DISCUSS@WINDUPLIST.COM] On Behalf Of Creed - 7M3 - Live Sent: Monday, June 18, 2001 4:03 PM To: CREED-DISCUSS@WINDUPLIST.COM Subject: Re: NCR - A great way for bands to give fans incentives to buy instead of download music To sum it up. The record companies threatened to sue the Offspring for giving thier music away. But held out to just the one MP3. Because the lawsuit would of been a real pain in the butt. Both financially and timewise. On the other side. Metallica was being portrayed as a greedy band that would prosecute people for listening to thier music. So they were seen as a band not even worth the time to explore thier music. Sort of like the Offsprings stance on not making the album available for download directly. I never used Napster, so I really don't know how big of an impact that the availability of music to download was. I just thought it was "us" against "them". Though I wasn't partaking of the dowloading of whole albums. I download ISO images of operating systems. But never downloaded an ISO image of any music artist. If people were downloading complete albums. Was it one big MP3? I know that their is a huge difference between mp3 files and radio broadcasts. Since I realize the dynamic range and quality of sound is not on the FM system or cassette capablities. So what is wrong with quality mp3? Especially if it doesn't cost. Quality without cost is the primary advantage to mp3's. Too bad businesses can't find out how to do the same. Yep, I knew that, Jim To unsubscribe or change your preferences for the Creed-Discuss list, visit: http://www.winduplist.com/ls/discuss/form.asp