[oclug] Music Downloading and Copyright

[Peter Timusk]

one last point and I'll desist. Open source programmers generally 
choose to open source their code.  Musicians should be given this 
choice too they should not be stolen from. Would you steal someone's 
code without their permission?

On Apr 2, 2004, at 11:34 AM, Peter Timusk wrote:

> Another difference between free music and free software. a Compiler is 
> hundreds of dollars thus when Linus says he wants a poor programmer to 
> be able to feed his family rather than pay for tools this makes sense. 
>  A 400$ compiler for free feeds my family for a month. Whereas a free 
> Cd only buys me a pack of smokes we aren't talking downloading whole 
> operas here even then 50$ saved. Face it music is undervalued or 
> almost free anyways because either the consumer or the music business 
> can copy it cheaply.
>
> music is not a tool is is a pleasure I don't accept that free music is 
> like free software, no, not a, no way.
>
> On Apr 2, 2004, at 11:26 AM, Peter Timusk wrote:
>
>> My only really valid point on this debate is that I am a musician as 
>> are many people I know. I have yet to make any royalty monies from my 
>> tunes. Something is wrong yes. Some lower class people realize they 
>> can make a lot of money with music. But music is more to the lower 
>> class it is community. It galvanizes a community it brings 
>> solidarity. This is but a drop in the bucket of the valid arguments 
>> about music and money.
>>
>> Now if software wasn't so new???would we have free software? or do we 
>> just need more choice and less expensive software. I am hoping the 
>> courts knock out Microsoft eventually.
>>
>>  please don't offer me free beer I am a musician I don't drink.
>>
>>
>>
>>>
>> Peter Timusk, B.Math, just trying to stay linear.
>>
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