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Originally posted by Esh:
Maybe "thwarting" isn't the point. Why go to the effort of creating such a site in the first place? I doubt it's for the benefit of all mankind - it's probably to drive hits to a banner-laden website or some other for-profit scheme. I hardly think of people who create music distribution websites of any kind as some kind of benefactors for anyone other than themselves.
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Bottom line is still the same benefactors, banners or not, the music is made available to the public.

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If anyone is going to post tabs or lyrics or MP3 files or whatever of popular music it should be the artists and/or the publishers who created it because it's their property - and I don't see them doing that so noone else should either.
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Perhaps they should if the point is to get the artist's music out there. The demand is obviously there.

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We are musicians - the rules are in place to protect what we create, without which artists could not profit from their work and therefore there'd be no reason for the work to exist.
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Art for art's sake we're not all still in it for money, some of us are for the love of it and the creation aspect.

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I see other forums where musicians are constantly dissing copyrights like it was some evil empire thing (some of the posts here sound like that too). If anyone should be supporting copyrights, it's us, and our example is what others follow.

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I whole heartedly do, just not in all forms and in all ways. It's not a B&W line as I see it, there is a gray area as well, dependant on the circumstances.

with respect for your opinion as well,
Terry





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jam on,
Terry
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jam on,
Terry
http://www.artisans-world.com/