"If you choose to take your own CDs and make copies for yourself on your
computer or portable music player, that's great. It's your music and we
want you to enjoy it at home, at work, in the car and on the jogging trail."
They just want you to pay extra for that enjoyment...
-Erik
On 2/16/06, Kevin Brown <
kevin_brown@qwest.net> wrote:
> > Why don't we do what France is doing, just make P2P legal (as long as
> > it's for personal use), and add extra taxes on CD writers and blank CDs.
> > A real music artist wouldn't care if you were downloading/copying their
> > albums. They should encourage it, it's getting their music out.
> > Darn greedy record companies and the RIAA.
> > Another day, another ton of hatred that builds up inside of me because
> > of the RIAA...
>
> There already is a blank disc tax on tapes and cds and probably DVDs.
> One of the issues I've seen is that the company collecting it and the
> various record companies don't distribute it any further than themselves
> even though it was supposedly to pay the artists... I've got a better
> idea. They can all go f&*k themselves. I'll keep my money and use it
> for more interesting things (like books). Think I've added maybe two
> movies to my collection in the last 6 months or so and I have almost
> given up on movie theatres (See less than 1 movie every 2 - 3 months if
> that).
> ---------------------------------------------------
> PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us
> To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change you mail settings:
> http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss
>
---------------------------------------------------
PLUG-discuss mailing list -
PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us
To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change you mail settings:
http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss
(text/plain)