What are your thoughts on internet file sharing, such as BitTorrent and Limewire?
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I think the nature of digital "property" like music is such that the Internet has just changed the game permanently. No amount of copy protection or DRM is going to hold back the sea: if something is digital, and will fit in the bandwidth available reasonably well, it will get distributed by the network. So if you're the originator of the work, you need a new way to make money besides selling recordings. Time to make peace with that. You can perform live, you can ask for donations on your web site, you can get a day job, you can go on TV and sell soap. But you can forget about a future where you own and control your recorded work and can prevent people from sharing it freely, so you may as well go with the flow. Who ever said that being a musician should equal becoming wealthy and having a lifeling endless stream of revenue from past recordings? In the old days, musicians traveled from town to town and entertained. In other words, they *worked*. I suspect those days are returning.
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Well I think of it this way: Lets say a friend buys a CD. His friend desperately wants it and the friend lets him borrow it to burn it. Depends on who you knew anyway. Well with the internet, you just have more "friends" to rely on, so it really wouldn't affect it in terms piracy because they would get it from their fortunate friends anyway see?
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