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Originally posted by Yorick:
Interesting. Dave Grohl is a millionaire, he's bitching and he shouldn't open his mouth. (Unless he's singing)
It's fine for him. He's made his money. Let's hear what Anastasia said about it. Her first record lost hoards of sales through Napster. Sales=exposure/hype=career. Lucky she's still got one.
I still say it's up to the individual artist and whether they willingly allow music sharing. Taking something that is for sale and not meant to be free is, by definition theft. Of course we all want to get free stuff.
Grohls referral to tapes is horse----. That was considered theft in it's time as well (Though hardly enforcable). Some artists wondered why their own record companies made BLANK cassettes at all. I mean what did they think was going to be recorded on them? Anyhow there was a loss of quality with cassettes so it wasn't really an issue.
The radio is a means of PROMOTING music. You don't always get to hear the songs you want when you turn on the radio (some would say not at all  ). If folks liked what they heard on the radio enough, they would buy it.
From Mr. Grohls lucid and illuminating posturing I think we can now take it that grabbing Foofighters Music is not Piracy. However from the lawsuit I suppose grabbing Mettalica's is.
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Well for young artist
It's a nice way to get yourself known so it is promotion
And normally people download one or two songs and if they like it they buy the cd
Limp Bizkit record sells actually raised due to Napster
The real threat to the music industry is the CD writers and rewriters
That's my humble opinion
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