DBII
Senior Master Sergeant
H man, did you ditch school again? 
DBII
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109ROAMING
2nd Lieutenant
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B-17engineer
Colonel
H man, did you ditch school again?
DBII
No. It ends at 2:30
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B-17engineer
Colonel
Okay. I'm interested as to why your interested?
kgambit
Tech Sergeant
Marcel, I think we are arguing semantics a bit, but not entirely. In the interest of NOT beating a dead horse or trying to make it appear like i am jumping on Harrison over this I'll send you a pm. 
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B-17engineer
Colonel
Marcel, I think we are arguing semantics a bit, but not entirely. In the interest of NOT beating a dead horse or trying to make it appear like i am jumping on Harrison over this I'll send you a pm.
No problem. I understand... admit I am wrong.
kgambit
Tech Sergeant
Don't beat yourself up about it.
I'm dropping the issue and will take any further discussion of it up with Marcel in a pm.
109ROAMING
2nd Lieutenant
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B-17engineer
Colonel
Ok... so case closed
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B-17engineer
Colonel
Check you PM's then. Just seems like your getting on my case. That's all........ and same goes with what Dwight said... anything else should be in a PM.
Maestro
Master Sergeant
I never said bands were touring more, what I said is that the most of their income (80% to 95%) comes from concerts and that the real income coming from their CDs is almost laughable.
Your point about gas companies is not logic, as there is already gas smuggling everywhere... Just as an example, I know the owner of a truck company who managed to spare some money by using heating fuel instead of diesel fuel to power his trucks, even though doing so is illegal. By the time the gouvernment caught him, he managed to put enough money "on the side" to buy a brand new truck and pay the ticket the police gave him (something like $5,000, if I remember well).
Plus gas companies don't have a second source of income (i.e. concerts).
Also, I think it is okay to "rip off musicians" (as you put it) because of the following reasons (most of them were explained earlier in my other post).
1 - Sharing music (legally or not) doesn't mean that the downloader won't buy the CD, as most of them knows that if nobody are buying the CDs, then we'll all lose something. (The company will stop distributing their CDs, so the band will stop making music and we could lose so good artists.)
2 - Sharing music (legally or not) can make some unknown groups famous (either locally or worldwide). Which means more peoples going to their shows, so more money coming-in for them. Again, my example of Metallica still stands, as Lars Ulrich himself admitted that MP3 sharing of their songs contributed to make them famous in middle-east countries... As their group is illegal in many of those countries. (Source : the movie Global Metal.)
3 - Many Canadian artists (even those who are famous) still receive financial help from gouvernement... Both Federal (a tiny part) and Provincial (for the most part) gouvernements are giving them money, so we are still paying for their music... Even for the musicians who royally sucks.
4 - I noticed that those musicians who complains are either extremely rich (i.e. Metallica) or extremely poor (a.k.a. : they sucks !). And if they sucks they should change of career.
So, is music sharing illegal ? Yes.
Should it be legal ? Yes.
Do I feel for those "poor" musicians ? Not at all. Make some good music or leave the place to better musicians.
But it is only my opinion... Feel free to agree with it or not.
109ROAMING
2nd Lieutenant
Not to cause offence here but I will say this
How many teenagers/people out there do you actually think download and then buy the producers CD?
How would you feel if everyone downloaded your book/s ? and then %5 because they cared about you went and brought it
You'd be a little annoyed yes?
How many teenagers/people out there do you actually think download and then buy the producers CD?
How would you feel if everyone downloaded your book/s ? and then %5 because they cared about you went and brought it
You'd be a little annoyed yes?
109ROAMING
2nd Lieutenant
This is getting a little too political H so Il end it with this post
I was just asking why you thought your Govt was dumb
Not having a go at you
Maestro
Master Sergeant
Don't worry, I don't feel offended.
To answer your question, I'll have to refer to the same answer I gave about gas companies : I don't have (artistically speaking) an other source of money... While musicians have concerts, which constitute over 80% of their income.
So the music industry can not, in my opinion, be compared to any other industry.
And to be completely honest with you, as I am a new and mostly unknown author, and don't receive a penny from the gouvernement, I think sharing my book for free would be a good way of advertisement and would make it easier for upcoming books... If ever I decide to write a new book.
Think of it as the Jeff Dunham effect. That guy was almost unknown outside of the US until his videos hit YouTube. Now he is famous worldwide.
