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which_chickMeme. Next twenty songs (unique as to artist/CD -- if you've got six Eminem songs there that are all from the same legit CD, that's not where we are going with this) on the player and where they came from. If it makes you feel better, you can put "downloaded" instead of "stolen" but basically, unless you paid iTunes or someone for it, it's not legit. And, y'know, those russian music sites that are ten cents a track? They're not legit. Not. Either steal or pay, but for pete's sake, don't pay bootleggers.
Hand on the Pump -- Cypress Hill brother Joe's mix CD he made for me
Zettai Unmei Mokushiroku -- this is the pre-fight music from Utena. stolen
What's Your Mama's Name Child -- Tanya Tucker stolen
Hot Legs -- Rod Stewart stolen
Mississippi Squirrel Revival -- Ray Stevens stolen
Send my Body Home -- Uncle Bonsai I own the CD
Big Bizang -- MC Hawking I own the CD
Walk Like an Egyptian -- Bangles I own the CD
For Real -- Hidenori Tokuyama I own the import CD single, legit
War Pigs -- Black Sabbath stolen
The Thunder Rolls -- Garth Brooks stolen
Odo Yewe -- Kosono I own the CD
Brown Eyed Girl -- Greatful Dead brother Joe's Greatful Dead mp3 collection
Guilty Conscience -- Eminem I own the CD
Lucky Man -- ELP stolen
Another Bag of Bricks -- Flogging Molly I own the CD
The Warrior -- Patty Smyth / Scandal I own the CD
Orange Blossom Special -- Charlie Daniels Band stolen
As One -- Dropkick Murphys I own the CD
Whip It -- Devo I own the CD
Percentage legit? 50% solidly legit because I own the CDs right now. The rest is of dubious legality.
Interesting thing, here. It's been legal for a long time to treat a book or a record or a tape or a CD as an ordinary piece of property for resale. What I mean is that folks don't collect or pay royalties on aftermarket sales of these items. Royalties and such are only for sold-new. Like, if I buy a brand-new copy of TM Revolution's CD Coordinate, that presumably makes money for the guy or at least for the company who released the guy's CD in the United States. Now, if I get tired of my CD, I can sell it to someone else. On that sale, I don't have to pay royalties and the only folks making any money on that sale are me and any service I used to help me sell it (like amazon.com or eBay). I can just sell it like a piece of property. This has been the way of things for some time now and there's a thriving (and very handy) used-CD market out there in the world, making music cheaper for us all.
The music world apparently came out this way because courts and lawyers and such based practice for the resale of copyrighted music on pre-existing media like books. When they started with this, CDs didn't exist and books were a good analogy. A book and an LP record have a fair amount of not-easily-reproduced effort in them. In the last five years, though, that model has gone to hell as CD burners have become standard material on home computers and as software to rip and burn CDs has become ubiquitous. These days, the book market isn't quite the same as the music world because it's harder to duplicate a book -- more time consuming, more hassle, very difficult to get a similar look-and-feel. Even good OCR isn't all that great and boot, online versions of popular, hefty books like Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix take a couple of days to hit the web... that, in a distributed effort, with lots of people working on smallish segments of the problem and proper prior planning and whatnot. For most books, the interest vs. effort payoff doesn't exist.
For music, though, the barrier to entry is a lot lower. I can rip and burn a perfect copy of a given CD in ten minutes, starting with the thing still in shrinkwrap, and I only have to click five times. I don't have to type shit. The software I use looks up the CD automatically online and inputs the song information (title, artist, album) for me. It's got a picture of the album cover, for pete's sake. The problem here is that it's not only possible to copy a CD exactly so that you can make another one just like the one you are selling, but ALSO that it's dead easy to do. Anyone can do it. Current state of the art is that you can keep the important part (the music) and resell the physical CD to someone else without actually letting go of it. Now, in an ideal world, people would not buy a new (or used) CD, rip it to .mp3, and then sell the original CD to someone else WITHOUT (and this is the important part) deleting all the appropriate .mp3 files off of his or her computer. I think it's pretty clear that we are not living in an ideal world.
I do not, however, have any suggestions on what to do about this... the old model is pretty badly broken and we don't have much of a useful new model in place yet. It's all very disturbance-in-the-force, you know?
Hand on the Pump -- Cypress Hill brother Joe's mix CD he made for me
Zettai Unmei Mokushiroku -- this is the pre-fight music from Utena. stolen
What's Your Mama's Name Child -- Tanya Tucker stolen
Hot Legs -- Rod Stewart stolen
Mississippi Squirrel Revival -- Ray Stevens stolen
Send my Body Home -- Uncle Bonsai I own the CD
Big Bizang -- MC Hawking I own the CD
Walk Like an Egyptian -- Bangles I own the CD
For Real -- Hidenori Tokuyama I own the import CD single, legit
War Pigs -- Black Sabbath stolen
The Thunder Rolls -- Garth Brooks stolen
Odo Yewe -- Kosono I own the CD
Brown Eyed Girl -- Greatful Dead brother Joe's Greatful Dead mp3 collection
Guilty Conscience -- Eminem I own the CD
Lucky Man -- ELP stolen
Another Bag of Bricks -- Flogging Molly I own the CD
The Warrior -- Patty Smyth / Scandal I own the CD
Orange Blossom Special -- Charlie Daniels Band stolen
As One -- Dropkick Murphys I own the CD
Whip It -- Devo I own the CD
Percentage legit? 50% solidly legit because I own the CDs right now. The rest is of dubious legality.
Interesting thing, here. It's been legal for a long time to treat a book or a record or a tape or a CD as an ordinary piece of property for resale. What I mean is that folks don't collect or pay royalties on aftermarket sales of these items. Royalties and such are only for sold-new. Like, if I buy a brand-new copy of TM Revolution's CD Coordinate, that presumably makes money for the guy or at least for the company who released the guy's CD in the United States. Now, if I get tired of my CD, I can sell it to someone else. On that sale, I don't have to pay royalties and the only folks making any money on that sale are me and any service I used to help me sell it (like amazon.com or eBay). I can just sell it like a piece of property. This has been the way of things for some time now and there's a thriving (and very handy) used-CD market out there in the world, making music cheaper for us all.
The music world apparently came out this way because courts and lawyers and such based practice for the resale of copyrighted music on pre-existing media like books. When they started with this, CDs didn't exist and books were a good analogy. A book and an LP record have a fair amount of not-easily-reproduced effort in them. In the last five years, though, that model has gone to hell as CD burners have become standard material on home computers and as software to rip and burn CDs has become ubiquitous. These days, the book market isn't quite the same as the music world because it's harder to duplicate a book -- more time consuming, more hassle, very difficult to get a similar look-and-feel. Even good OCR isn't all that great and boot, online versions of popular, hefty books like Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix take a couple of days to hit the web... that, in a distributed effort, with lots of people working on smallish segments of the problem and proper prior planning and whatnot. For most books, the interest vs. effort payoff doesn't exist.
For music, though, the barrier to entry is a lot lower. I can rip and burn a perfect copy of a given CD in ten minutes, starting with the thing still in shrinkwrap, and I only have to click five times. I don't have to type shit. The software I use looks up the CD automatically online and inputs the song information (title, artist, album) for me. It's got a picture of the album cover, for pete's sake. The problem here is that it's not only possible to copy a CD exactly so that you can make another one just like the one you are selling, but ALSO that it's dead easy to do. Anyone can do it. Current state of the art is that you can keep the important part (the music) and resell the physical CD to someone else without actually letting go of it. Now, in an ideal world, people would not buy a new (or used) CD, rip it to .mp3, and then sell the original CD to someone else WITHOUT (and this is the important part) deleting all the appropriate .mp3 files off of his or her computer. I think it's pretty clear that we are not living in an ideal world.
I do not, however, have any suggestions on what to do about this... the old model is pretty badly broken and we don't have much of a useful new model in place yet. It's all very disturbance-in-the-force, you know?
