From: Lee Daniel Crocker (lee@piclab.com)
Date: Tue Nov 26 2002 - 11:04:33 MST
> (John K Clark <jonkc@att.net>):
> "Lee Daniel Crocker" <lee@piclab.com>
>
> >anyone who says that digital copying is hurting that business is
> >a bald-faced liar.
>
> I disagree. Digital copying is certainly harming the music business and it's
> only a matter of time before the same thing happens to movies. I'm not
> advocating trying to prevent people from doing this, I'm just wondering what
> the future will look like.
>
> John K Clark jonkc@att.net
If by "music business" you mean the useless middlemen who treat
musicians like indentured servants, then I can agree that they are
being hurt, and good riddance to them. Actual musicians, on the
other hand, benefit greatly from digital copying.
I suspect the same thing will happen to movies--the "studio" system
will probably fail, and independent producers will reap the benefits
by distributing directly to theater owners under NDA contracts.
-- Lee Daniel Crocker <lee@piclab.com> <http://www.piclab.com/lee/> "All inventions or works of authorship original to me, herein and past, are placed irrevocably in the public domain, and may be used or modified for any purpose, without permission, attribution, or notification."--LDC
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