»Downloading Music? Stealing, supporting or convenient!«

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Originally posted by the anomaly:
what does the p2p networks have to do with the music industry producing deliberately faulty and short life discs
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Wow. I really thought you guys could see something that simple. I once again have overestimated you. If downloading and file-sharing were not an issue, the companies which sold the most reliable CD's would get the most business. However, because of people's blatant disregard for property rights, the music industry is forced to create faulty CD's in order to make profit at all.

So are you saying that if the record companys would'nt have made fawlty cd they would be broke by now? Making no profit?

no they wouldnt as people would continue to buy new music...but they have extended thier already massive profits by flogging cds that they had produced but went unsold on initial release

so when they say that an album by ? has sold 50 million copies....you know that lots of those are selling the same album to someone who already has it...but it no longer works cause it was cheaply produced and faulty to begin with...

THE SPIRIT OF RADIO
Begin the day
With a friendly voice
A companion, unobtrusive
Plays that song that’s so elusive
And the magic music makes your
morning mood
Off on your way
Hit the open road
There is magic at your fingers
For the Spirit ever lingers
Undemanding contact
In your happy solitude.
lnvisible airwaves,
Crackle with life
Bright antennae bristle
With the energy
Emotional feedback
On a timeless wavelength
Bearing a gift beyond price —
Almost free…..

All this machinery
Making modern music
Can still be open-hearted
Not so coldly charted
It’s really just a question
Of your honesty
One likes to believe
In the freedom of music
But glittering prizes
And endless compromises
Shatter the illusion
Of integrity
“For the words of the profits,
Are written on the studio wall,
Concert hall —
Echoes with the sounds...
Of salesmen.’’


Great lyrics and relevent.... Thanks RUSH...

this is taken from an article on