Date: Tue, 11 Apr 2000 06:49:55 -0500
From: Bill Spornitz <spornitz-AT-pangea.ca>
Subject: Re: Digitalisation of things.


At 1:11 AM +0200 4/11/00, Heiko Recktenwald wrote:
>
>Music, hmmm, you can still sell things, CDs, books. My advice to the
>recording industry: make your CDs more beautifull. As a thing, that people
>want to have, even when the copy sounds the same.
>
>Cheers,
>
>Heiko


This is it exactly (imho) It's still a lot of work to get a good mp3, 
and then burn it, etc... the artifact still has value - and from the 
artist's point of view, the act of selling it en masse almost always 
involves a theft - or at least an appropriation - by the 
market-mechanism...

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