Swedes curb rampant downloading - BBC report

This is true, and the problem is knowing which are, and which aren't. All I
ask is that they put the expiration date, and their name and address on all
the stuff they publish, so it doesn't take several hours of my time finding
it out. Maybe they could all get together and establish a central clearing
house for that information? - You know, sort of a club for music publishers,
where anyone can call at anytime of the day or night, and get information
and/or permission to use any work for any purpose. I think they'd be
surprised at how many honest people there are......

 

That's happening now. For a very modest amount of money, you can buy the
equipment to make CD's that are as good as the commercial ones, in the
privacy of your own basement. Also, you can publish your own books with
modern computers and printers. The commercial publishers of these items are
just getting more and more desperate, because they are losing money to the
amateurs. And I mean legal amateurs.

 

....while our Minster of Justice simultaneously states that the law
isn't intended to chase downloading teenagers, and most law experts
seem to agree that the law is pretty toothless for most purposes.

Clear case of sending mixed signals, I daresay.

Jan Böhme
Korrekta personuppgifter är att betrakta som journalistik.
Felaktigheter utgör naturligtvis skönlitteratur.

 

This is what I've decided. I buy, beg, borrow, or steal anything that I want
to play or have my friends play. I rearrange it to suit me or them, and we
play it to our hearts content. Screw the system. We just can't be bothered
with their antiquated narrow-minded, impossible to comply with, laws. They
have already decided we are all thieves, and they go out of their way to
treat us as such, so why should I disappoint them? When they come up with a
workable system that any normal human being can use, then I will use it. But
until then, I will merrily go on my way doing what I have to do in order to
survive. IOW, as long as they leave the wallet lying on the sidewalk stuffed
with money, and without any name and address in it, I will just pick it up
and spend it.

 

Yes, and I often wonder how much of our money they counterfeit every year,
too........

 

Life of the creator plus 75 years can make calculations difficult.

 

I know too many people who make their *living* from writing and from
music to find that a comfortable position. *Your* survival is never
in question -- or at least, access to works of art has little impact
on it. *Their* survival *is*. Musicians and writers make among the
lowest incomes of anybody (except for a very few "bestsellers" at the
top).

So, basically, you're saying you're willing to rip off people who
barely make a living as it is, for the sake of your convenience. I
don't find this a particularly admirable position.

 

No. What I am saying is that those people have given me no choice. In the
first place they have guarded their ability jealously, and prevented me from
learning what they know legitimately. I know, because I tried to go to their
schools (where, presumably they had all the music they needed to learn to
arrange with) But they wouldn't let me in. So, I had to learn their trade
the hard way. They refused to provide me with the learning tools to learn my
instrument, so I had to obtain them the hard way also. Now, some 20 years
later, after I scraped and groveled in order to learn how to play my
instrument, and to arrange without their damned schools, I am doing it for
myself, and anyone and everyone who wants it......FOR FREE! And they can all
go, collectively, to HELL.......