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In Reply to: A distinction without a difference. posted by markrohr on March 22, 2007 at 14:24:27:
Mark, I know this is starting to get a little old, but I've been watching this closely for more than 5 years now. Does it mean anything that every article I'm linking here is either from today or from a day or two ago? It's not a coincidence. Of course, it doesn't need to be said that 'stealing is wrong' or 'copyright infringement is wrong' or 'illegal file-sharing is wrong.' But then there's reality. And the reality is that the business uses these doom & gloom reports to their advantage, while muscling Microsoft into ridiculous extortion per Zune sold...and the DRM on Vista? If I didn't come across as many articles as I did on what the OS was designed to do, I would never have purchased a MacIntosh, as I did a few months ago. That's what the reports of what DRM was going to cause did for the marketplace in THIS household. I think you'll agree that nothing in Vista is likely to curb the growth of 'torrent' sites. But it HAS been a factor in Apple's growth.Oh, but Steve Jobs, he's that guy who wants to remove the DRM. What does he know. He's only sold a couple billion downloads over the past few years.
As for Lefsetz, who I assume you're familiar with, it's fair to point out that he works for Rhino/Warners, or the company that was responsible for the difficulties encountered by the person who paid money for music they could not play in the Consumerist piece.
LEFSETZ talks about downloading music illegally, and HE'S A LABEL GUY. And he's nutty & inconsistent & at times seems illogical...but at times he seems to make an awful lot of sense, too, even if he has to argue in uppercase to get it across.
And several times a week now he drives home the point that file-sharing is really not the problem...that it's part of the problem, sure, but it's an issue that's been mismanaged to the point where it's only one small piece of the puzzle.
It wasn't all that long ago that stuff we take for granted was not only illegal, but spoken of in the same terms you used back up there: either you're willing to engage in illegal behavior, or you're not.
People can come up with some darned good rationalizations for file-sharing. On the same day, we have both the Wall St. Journal & a label guy engaging in what I've seen you decry as 'situational ethics.'
Have you ever considered emailing Lefsetz?
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Follow Ups
- Lefsetz: "Piracy didn’t kill the major label business model, choice did." - J 18:26:14 03/22/07 (1)
- Perhaps you missed it. - markrohr 05:36:39 03/23/07 (0)
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