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[Michael Winslow Czeiszperger <michael AT czeiszperger.org>]

On Monday, November 3, 2003, at 08:49  AM, Beth wrote:

> I'm trying hard to understand why so many people seem so determined to 
> get music for free. You can't walk in to a record store and take what 
> you want, why should it be available online for free? If a band wants 
> to make their music available for free, let them put all the songs 
> they want to on their website.
>
> This truly is a mystery to me. I wonder if it's such a big deal in any 
> country other than the US.

Ahh, but this case wasn't about file sharing, but broadcast rights. 
Consumers can turn on their radios and hear lots of music for free. In 
this case MIT was just trying to set up their own radio station that 
would broadcast over cable TV rather than the airwaves. Lots of 
colleges have their own radio stations and are able to play a wide 
variety of music without being shut down by the RIAA. The problem has 
been the RIAA doesn't want music broadcast any other way than the 
traditional CD sales or radio in order to protect their monopoly, and 
have adjusted their fees to make internet radio prohibitively expensive.

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