----- Original Message ----- From: "Bob Maxey" <written_by@xxxxxxx> To: "List for Photo/Imaging Educators - Professionals - Students" <photoforum@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Monday, October 17, 2005 4:47 PM Subject: Re: file share vs tape as gift >>>What is the difference between file share and making a tape of your favorite music and giving it to your friend as a gift? You're not making money that belongs to the originator. No, I'm not dumb. Just looking for some comments.>>> the year Napster came online, record companies experienced the highest sales increase *in history*, not that they liked that information put around. since then they've seen a gradual decline, but it still hasn't dropped to the level of pre-napster days.. much like radio - people hear music, people BUY music and although the execs wanted to put the massive sales down to their skill, it was largely due to napster and other P2P programs. I know many people who've downloaded music they've never heard before on a whim - especially stuff that gets no airplay and then gone out and bought the album. Filesharing music has also proved a very effective way for unsigned bands to get heard, and even signed bands still choose to put free clips on the web for folks to download. who loses? the record companies don't, the artists don't, the customers don't. Local libries are plentiful here in Oz, all paid for by local taxes. Bookshops do a roaring trade in books all the willing reader has to do is go down the road to any public library and they could have the book for free, but hey - they want to own it. k
