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since a few people asked for it:


Courtney Love does the math
By Courtney Love


Technology is not piracy.

This opinion is one I really haven't formed yet, so as I speak about
Napster now, please understand that I'm not totally informed. I will
be the first in line to file a class action suit to protect my
copyrights if Napster or even the far more advanced Gnutella doesn't
work with us to protect us. I'm on [Metallica drummer] Lars Ulrich's
side, in other words, and I feel really badly for him that he doesn't
know how to condense his case down to a sound-bite that sounds more
reasonable than the one I saw today.

I also think Metallica is being given too much grief. It's
anti-artist, for one thing. An artist speaks up and the artist gets
squashed: Sharecropping. Don't get above your station, kid. It's not
piracy when kids swap music over the Internet using Napster or
Gnutella or Freenet or iMesh or beaming their CDs into a My.MP3.com or
MyPlay.com music locker. It's piracy when those guys that run those
companies make side deals with the cartel lawyers and label heads so
that they can be "the labels' friend," and not the artists'.

Recording artists have essentially been giving their music away for
free under the old system, so new technology that exposes our music to
a larger audience can only be a good thing. Why aren't these companies
working with us to create some peace?


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full transscript:
http://www.salon.com/tech/feature/2000/06/14/love/

in audio:
http://www.indieartist.com/audio/courtneylove/speech-56.rm

related issues:
http://www.arancidamoeba.com/mrr/problemwithmusic

How can musicians and artists collect real money in an "electronic tip jar"?
http://www.futureofmusic.org/tipjars/index.html

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