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To: Jorj X Mckie who wrote (53625)	9/23/2000 6:03:16 PM
From: SmoothSail	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 63513

I think this issue goes a little further than just the artist and the record company. While true that some artists can produce a decent sounding tune in their basement, most use sound studios to do their work. Most use a good sound engineer and a producer who knows what he/she is doing so that the artist can concentrate on making the music and not worry about the quality, technical problems and where the money is going to come from to pay for studio time. A lot of the producers and engineers (at least in Hollywood and Nashville) are independent/free lancers. Most of these people have a college degree in electrical engineering. Someone has to pay them. Someone has to pay for the equipment. Someone has to pay for studio time. Some record companies have their own studios but some don't and even the big guys use independent sound studios, independent engineers and independent producers. I think sites like Napster should take the high road and figure out a way to pay the artist and his support structure. Just because it's easy to download stuff for free, doesn't make it right. People have been stealing intellectual properties from the beginning of time. It doesn't make it right. What's to prevent someone from downloading a piece of music, altering it slightly, slapping their own name on it and selling it somewhere's else. Plagiarism. Stealing. It's all the same thing. Just because you can do it - and because everyone else is doing it - doesn't make it right. Think about how you would feel if you worked hard to come up with something original, worked hard at putting it together, spent a lot of money doing it and someone came along and stole it - took it without paying you. Same principle applies. It's stealing and there's no other way to look at it.