As with all copy-right/public domain stuff, I have deeply mixed feelings about this. I think that what is given away for free is often undervalued, and I obviously have a vested insterest in continued demand for new recordings, for which artists get paid reasonable money. And then I get back to the idea of, well, if nobody ever got paid for anything we'd all have to value everything for its own sake, and I wouldn't even want to be paid for recording in the first place as long as my needs were met, and, y'know, Marx, except that doesn't work and we all know that, and recorded music kills live concerts anyway, and gives us a false impression of what music ought to sound like because you can edit the mistakes out, and it's all so irreconcilable......
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Date: 2008-05-23 09:11 am (UTC)