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Re: why not fair use?

Posted by gialitt (A) on September 11, 2003 at 06:43:24

In Reply to: Re: why not fair use? posted by Larry S on September 9, 2003 at 13:52:38:

oh come on, give it a rest. the concern was always commercial piracy and mass duplocation for profit. NOT making your own tapes of what you buy -- and it has been on occassion explictely expressed that way by the industry in countless forums, including the software's packaging. hello ...

however it is true that the internet and sharing of music files (largely an adolescent enterprise IMO) has caused the industry's power elite to blame their slumping record sales on this downloading phenomenon. certainly their shameless markup and obessessive quest for absolute control of distribution channels, contrasted with a chronic, altogether curious lack of artistic license, expression and support, as well as a similar lack of sensitivity to consumer interest (and what is plainly reasonable marketplace forces), are the more likely culprits for their intolerable slipping stock, my friend. little reason to invoke RICO laws against common citizens caught in their vissitudes and corporate barbary-piratism.

i really tire of the self-righteous ranting that some quarters are given to in support of what is plainly madison avenue avarice and bodacious disregard for consumers. label it chronic lack of wisdom and self respect when dealing with their buying public. and it's always sureptiticious and at armslength - slinking from rock to rock. and it seems to me your concern with digital management rights stems from the same recording industry moguls in their infinite wisdom rendering a myopic turning-of-the-screw to adopt Digital in it's jitter & EMI ridden splendor. wholesale, in a near day-one-switch, as it were. an annoying adoption of a flawed redbook standard, without so much as a pause or nod to the consumers they supposedly cater to, who at the time were invested in (an almost exclusively superior) analog reproduction chain. we were shuttled along at high speed, forced to buy both new hardware and software. only some twenty years of sadistic torture with wretched cd mastering and duplication has resulted in even a lukewarm industry interest in experimenting with providing us with a higher fidelity that we clearly deserve. meanwhile, redbook cds are priced with obscene stickers even in cutout bins, while paranoid and subversive copy protection schemes on all things digital often render optical discs obnoxious, inferior to their analog cousins and often unplayable with either mass market or high end gear. really since the early days of popular music we've had recorders (from day one - did you get that?) but now in the fall season of our discontent, the best they can muster as an official response to their massive record of folly is to criminalize an accepted public practice, once the lifeblood of popular culture? please.

ignore the little man behind the curtain.

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