This is the entitlement I was talking about. This isn't for you to say. If you don't like their music, don't buy it (or download it). If the artist wants to give it out for free, they can.
First: nice non-sequitur. Nowhere in my phrase does it say otherwise.
But no, I don't agree. The music isn't theirs alone, it belongs to everyone who bought a copy. They -we, since I'm a software developer, which is in a similar situation- shouldn't have any right to maintain that level of control over someone else's copy, no more than Toyota should be able to prevent me from reselling my (hypothetical) car.
The same people that hate the record industry because they think it's somehow propping up a dying business model..love the unions..when they are doing the exact same thing.
Well, I can't talk about this, because I have no idea how your unions are. Ours are certainly unable to prevent the business from dying.
We could have automated many of the assembly line jobs in the US auto industry (like Japan), but the Unions are preventing it and forcing companies to pay ridiculous wages (which is why they pretty much went bankrupt). If you want me to feel sorry for the jobs lost, I don't.
Again, I can't comment on that. But I find it bizarre how you shove an anti-union rant on a discussion about music sales.
Nobody feels sorry for the jobs lost when software, music, and or movies are pirated.
Yes, software is certainly lacking for jobs.
And movies, man, I can tell you that the industry must really be hurting, that with their five years of consecutive record profits.
First: nice non-sequitur. Nowhere in my phrase does it say otherwise.
But no, I don't agree. The music isn't theirs alone, it belongs to everyone who bought a copy. They -we, since I'm a software developer, which is in a similar situation- shouldn't have any right to maintain that level of control over someone else's copy, no more than Toyota should be able to prevent me from reselling my (hypothetical) car.
The same people that hate the record industry because they think it's somehow propping up a dying business model..love the unions..when they are doing the exact same thing.
Well, I can't talk about this, because I have no idea how your unions are. Ours are certainly unable to prevent the business from dying.
We could have automated many of the assembly line jobs in the US auto industry (like Japan), but the Unions are preventing it and forcing companies to pay ridiculous wages (which is why they pretty much went bankrupt). If you want me to feel sorry for the jobs lost, I don't.
Again, I can't comment on that. But I find it bizarre how you shove an anti-union rant on a discussion about music sales.
Nobody feels sorry for the jobs lost when software, music, and or movies are pirated.
Yes, software is certainly lacking for jobs.
And movies, man, I can tell you that the industry must really be hurting, that with their five years of consecutive record profits.