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To: SmoothSail who wrote (53630)	9/23/2000 6:04:28 PM
From: The Phoenix	Respond to of 63513

Soothsail, Well said! Nice job.

To: SmoothSail who wrote (53630)	9/23/2000 6:16:03 PM
From: Original Mad Dog	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 63513

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. Very good point SS. You worked hard to come up with that and putting that together. It was original. You spent a lot of money on the computer you wrote it on. And I came along and read it without paying you a dime. Stop! Thief! <g> My point is .... what the Net changes is that it provides a vastly more efficient distribution system. Like radio did, only better. The answer, it seems to me, is requiring the sites to pay a royalty if, on a mass market basis, they match up people who otherwise didn't know each other and facilitate their exchange of copyrighted material. If the site can pay those fees and still allow the exchanges for free (as radio does) ... so be it. My guess is we will arrive at a system in which the sites will have to charge a small toll but it will still be possible to fill up a CD for a couple or three bucks. The middlemen to be cut out here are the people in the retail and wholesale distribution chain. They, like full service (LOL!) stockbrokers, will soon become less necessary to the average person UNLESS they can come up with a way to truly add value to the process. Which is as it should be, IMO.

To: SmoothSail who wrote (53630)	9/23/2000 7:13:22 PM
From: Cheeky Kid	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 63513

I agree. I would be pissed off if I designed a web site and someone copied the format, or if I made a multimedia CD and someone copied it....I would be really pissed. Some companies call this practice of stealing "borrowing." My point in this debate is something big is going to happen here, a new paradigm. That's why I started this thread almost 2 years ago: Subject 23995 I would love to try and predict what way it's going to go. All I can do is guess. But times are a changing pretty fast. Things that use to take decades to change are happening in a year or two. In the end, the artists will MAKE MONEY. They will not go away. I don't know what exactly will happen, but the money will be there. Of interest: liquidaudio.com The question should be, who will win? What format will win? Figure that out and you will be rich!