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An Interesting Post On Copyright

03.4.2009

This is Joe Clark, a writer in Toronto, working on a very interesting book on copyright reform. It refutes a lot of the extreme points of view on both sides of the ‘great divide’.

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File Sharing: Is It Like Booze?

01.23.2009

Music Appreciation, Piracy

A lot of people who favour ‘free file sharing’, (aka ‘The Pirates’) like to use the Booze/Prohibition argument. Hey, people drink so if you don’t make it legal people will bootleg it. This is similar to the “People copied cassettes back in the day, so why can’t they copy CDs now you hyopcrite?” argument; filled with more flaws than swiss cheese. (OK, maybe yer average Emmentaler has more holes than flaws, but hey everyone misuses their analogies, right?) And that’s the point. Yeah, people have been drinking since before Bacchus. Gettin’ high is a basic human need. End of story. [...]

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Piracy: Quantity Vs. Quality

01.21.2009

Piracy

Look, down deep, people are either liberal or conservative. You know it. I know it. We feel a certain way about things and then grow our ideas to fit those predelictions. I felt P2P was wrong the day I first checked out Napster. But for years I couldn’t articulate it well. Maybe I still can’t. I kept hearing supposedly reasonable people talk about the good side of P2P their arguments sounded like Saruman speaking from the tower. I thought back to my youth and the massive collection of cassette tapes I kept from parties, gigs. The library. Why was that [...]

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Will Anyone Under Forty Pay For Music?

12.8.2008

Music Business, Piracy

The thing I am learning, much to my cost, is that this business we call ‘show’ is flipped on it’s head. See it used to be that one toured in order to sell content. More and more now one basically gives the content away in order to get people to either: a) Go to shows b) Purchase swag c) Promote a corporate tie-in This is a bargain with the devil for any number of reasons, which I’ll delve into another time, but for now the question is ‘how did we get here?’. And the answer is simple: we got pimped. [...]

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Closing Pandora’s Box?

12.7.2008

Marketing, Piracy

First of all, sorry, sorry, sorry for so many things recently. Where to begin? –No the old blog posts are still not ‘back’. –No you still can’t post. You still have to e-mail. –Yes, I am working on all this stuff. It may seem like nothing’s happening, but really, a lot of stuff is happening. Today’s little ditty is in regards to an episode last Friday (only 4 days behind schedule? Wow, I’m getting faster by the minute!). A couple of you started telling me that you had noticed that your Pandora stations were no longer ‘suggesting’ my stuff in [...]

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