Subj : Music Sites For Linux
To   : CHRISTOPHER PERRAULT
From : ROB MCCART
Date : Sun Jul 17 2005 06:57 pm

CP>Well, I'm not talking about stealing music. I'm all for paying for it from a
  >legit service, if the bastards would not try to control what I can use to
  >listen to it<grin>. I would like to be able to download a music file and know
  >that I can listen to it on a Windows,Mac, Linux, or what have you system and
  >able to burn it to CD or load it onto an MP3 player. I just don't want to spe
  >a ton of dough on a music collection only to find out it can only run on xyz
  >music player for Windows.

Yes.. It's one of those gray areas. Technically you can have a backup
of any data you pay for, but then they block your ability to create
a backup. Plus most courts have ruled that if you buy, say, a CD
and want to use it yourself as a Cassette in the car or whatever,
that it's okay to copy it for that purpose, but most of the music
makers would disagree with that too to try to force an extra sale..

It's sad..  Like with sports players and such, money is going to
ruin it for everyone.  What's funny is they've known for decades
that in areas where music is 'stolen' the most, sales of music is
the highest as well. People tend to buy music once they've heard it,
more-so when they've had a few cuts of their own as opposed to just
hearing it infrequently on the radio..

And music industry claims of "Billions $$" in lost revenue are crap.
In many cases a person will DL a song for free that they would
never buy, so all they accomplish there is stopping wider
exposure of their product rather than guaranteeing a sale.

That said, I don't have any peer to peer software at all
so I'm not just trying to justify my bad habits, (although
I suppose I may have gotten a few music pieces in the past)..   B)

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