--- Linda Fox <linda@f...> wrote: --- Linda Fox <linda@f...> wrote: Is it the composer, the performer, the producer or the record company itself that loses out through these less primitive methods?
ANSWER: all of them! (Well, there are a few restrictions concerning dead people, but in case you want to have some profit from your work, it is easier to stay alive anyway!)
> who is profiting unfairly from > the labours of those who should themselves be > getting paid?
ANSWER: mp3.com, napster etc, and last but not least, all those little sinners like we, that sometimes are tended to copy a cd rather than buying one, or in this case, downloading the music and putting them on a cd, or downloading them directly to a mp3 player. This happens mostly with popmusic, but it is also bad for classical music, because the recording industry more or less needs the popmusic money to be able to keep their classical branches financially healthy.
Of course no government of a democratic country can control what individuals do, when it comes to taping or copying cd's etc. And evenso it is not that bad if a few people do things like that sometimes. But meanwhile it has become a big problem, because nowadays millions are doing this, and record companies and artists are loosing big money. When it comes to stopping companies that earn money by offering access to music people want to copy illegally, a law like the one discussed can be of great importance.
Furthermore this law should in no way bad for smaller record companies that offer their cd's via Internet. In the long run it even will be better for them, because otherwise from the day they will have a cd that sells really well, they will suffer from the illegal copy activities just like the big record companies, but without the money to take legal action etc.
Best greetings,
Dre
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