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Originally Posted by cfrizz
People were copying record albums on to tapes for years, and nobody said boo. It only became a big deal once the digital age arrived.
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I remember sitting by the radio, waiting for my favorite song to come on, with the finger poised on the Rec button of my radio-cassette deck. And no one cared abut that, despite the frantic rage that cassette tapes were going to kill the music industry.
I have a theory that the music industry would prefer that we went back to the stone age where live performances was the only entertainment medium available, for the simple reason that they are narrow-minded and incapable of creative vision, and because of that, they are the very last ones to adopt emerging technologies, which in turn means they miss the proverbial buss every single time.
There is no way they would have had a problem with Napster if they had thought of it first. And the fact they didn't, is why they want it to remain illegal. So no, I can't send you the album of this awesome new artist I think you wold love from my computer to yours, because that's against the law. I will just have to let you borrow it, like we did back in the 90s
Like we still do with books.
Which begs the question, why is it okay for me to lend you my printed copy of
A Song of fire and Ice, but not the eBook? (And don't tell me it is because the paperback is going to be returned, we all know once you lend out a book you never get it back.
) this double standard makes it even more confusing and frustrating.
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Originally Posted by cfrizz
It's all about utilizing common sense, which a great many people seem to lack.
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Yeah, I never could figure out why it's referred to as
common sense, when it's anything but.