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respirator · Post by **respirator** » Thu Jul 13, 2006 11:33 am

Music should be allowed to exist in a free and open market place. If that was the case, I don't think a digital reproduction would cost much, possibly nothing (no production or distribution costs). But the market place would find other ways of getting money to musicians to ensure music being made. Another structure than we know today (no record companies), but also without the very damaging effects (DRM, threats to privacy, consumer "leases" technology and content etc.) of the efforts to sustain the copyright based model.

bezza · Post by **bezza** » Thu Jul 13, 2006 11:41 am

Would the likes of Peter Gabriel (or whoever you personally admire musically) be able to deliver the same quality music for free and keep down a separate mundane daytime job to pay the bills? I doubt it.

maxxxter · Post by **maxxxter** » Thu Jul 13, 2006 12:08 pm

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Spe3D · Post by **Spe3D** » Thu Jul 13, 2006 12:15 pm

Why not replace the word 'music' with something else and see if it helps answer the question for you - examples

Should Food Be FREE????

Should Cars Be FREE????

Should Holidays Be FREE????

Should Everything Be FREE????

Somewhere in the Chain your ideas of FREE has a cost - nothing and I mean nothing in society's, is truly free on this planet.

Best regards,

Spe3d

:O)

Sepheritoh · Post by **Sepheritoh** » Thu Jul 13, 2006 12:16 pm

It seems like most who commented are missing the point in my view. The question was not whether the artist must be paid or not. In the system as proposed where laputa rules the world we are either in a dictatorial state or a comunist state, where the state or the dictator would take up the responsibility to pay the artist for the effort and th epublic can then enjoy it for free.

Now, this may sound bad if I say it, but comunism has been pretty good for music in the previous century. Russia delivered very well on this front in the last century. Comunism might have been pretty bad for other things, which I express no opinion on.

Spe3D · Post by **Spe3D** » Thu Jul 13, 2006 12:18 pm

Sepheritoh wrote:
Now, this may sound bad if I say it, but comunism has been pretty good for music in the previous century. Russia delivered very well on this front in the last century.

djsubject · Post by **djsubject** » Thu Jul 13, 2006 12:39 pm

music isint free?

i was never here!

:stelth exit:

stevieb19 · Post by **stevieb19** » Thu Jul 13, 2006 1:09 pm

Sepheritoh wrote:It seems like most who commented are missing the point in my view. The question was not whether the artist must be paid or not. In the system as proposed where laputa rules the world we are either in a dictatorial state or a comunist state, where the state or the dictator would take up the responsibility to pay the artist for the effort and th epublic can then enjoy it for free.

Now, this may sound bad if I say it, but comunism has been pretty good for music in the previous century. Russia delivered very well on this front in the last century. Comunism might have been pretty bad for other things, which I express no opinion on.

Produce a top 10 record Komrad or it's off to the salt mines with you along with the rest of the boy band tovarich

Holistic Ska Guy · Post by **Holistic Ska Guy** » Thu Jul 13, 2006 1:27 pm

Sepheritoh wrote:
Now, this may sound bad if I say it, but comunism has been pretty good for music in the previous century. Russia delivered very well on this front in the last century. Comunism might have been pretty bad for other things, which I express no opinion on.

Communism has bee good for music, eh?

Find your local "boutique" video store and ask them to locate "Testimony" starring Ben Kingsley as Dmitri Shostakocvich. Learn the truth and get back to us. Or not. Maybe at least learn to spell "communism" first.

your HSG.

Holistic Ska Guy · Post by **Holistic Ska Guy** » Thu Jul 13, 2006 1:28 pm

Or rather, Shostakovich. Need more java.

Reverse Engineer · Post by **Reverse Engineer** » Thu Jul 13, 2006 1:38 pm

you said (phonetically) 'a cock'

farlukar · Post by **farlukar** » Thu Jul 13, 2006 1:40 pm

Дмитрий Шостакович

eidenk · Post by **eidenk** » Thu Jul 13, 2006 1:45 pm

Spe3D wrote:
Sepheritoh wrote:
Now, this may sound bad if I say it, but comunism has been pretty good for music in the previous century. Russia delivered very well on this front in the last century.

I guess he speaks about Chostakovitch (not sure about the spelling) and other such composers.

TristanWilliams · Post by **TristanWilliams** » Thu Jul 13, 2006 1:50 pm

Cash itself is owned by private companies. Cash is a promise to pay the bearer on demand a particular sum of money, which does not exist. Money is, if anything, a false promise that goods and services will be transfered from one place to another, in exchange for other, unspecified goods and services.

Everything should be 'free'. Money can be demonstrated to be holding back civilisation itself. Relatively few people starve because of poor soil. 'Economic pressure' forces farmers to grow cash crops for export. Medical science is held back by inadequate, short-sighted funding in a system where money is more important than life itself. We burn fossil fuels and cut down trees and force people to die in order for a privileged elite to make 'money'.

Music, like all things, SHOULD be free, unfortunately while idiots rule the world, it can't be.

Lord Snarebottom · Post by **Lord Snarebottom** » Thu Jul 13, 2006 1:52 pm

This is what user-friendly operating systems bring to the fold...

KVR Audio

Should Music Be FREE????

Should Music Be FREE????