Postby madphilb » Mon Jun 30, 2003 2:42 pm
I agree with you on the indie thing DJ... and frankly I think we'll see some sort of revolution in the Music industry that we're starting to see in the Software industry.
See, I used to be a software pirate of sorts... never sold or anything, but I'd take or make a copy of just about anything for anyone.
But a friend of mine (who did about the same) came to a decision that God presented to him on a retreat. Long before the whole WWJD thing was big, that's kinda what he did. As part of where our line of thing is/was, copying that software was stealing someone's lunch.
Obviously there is a big difference, even with many of the big companies at the time, between software works and how the music industry is (namely the RIAA and such).
Now you can find tons of stuff that's cheap or free, GNU is rocking along, etc. Microsoft is one of the worst in the Software industry, and besides my XBox, the only other MS product that I use is Win98se (no IE or Outlook... Opera and Pegasus for me)... and I've got plans to make Windows a secondary boot at some point (need to expand my tiny 4GB HD to something much bigger).
I found more cool stuff on MP3.COM, much of which I can download for free or even buy a cheap CD (where, I'm guessing, the money is split between the Artist and MP3.COM).
Not having broadband I haven't done much file sharing, but a long time ago I was collecting MP3 files to build a soundtrack for Jet Force Gemini (Nintendo and Rare never released an offical soundtrack). Napster had the only decent recordings around (a guy on the 'net had a collection, but he was using one of those file storage sites, you know the ones.... they all went commerical and required you to register to gain access to anything).
Frankly there are tons of stuff that just isn't released, and sould be... or made PD or something. After a long time my Mom finally found, bid and won a copy of Charlie Pride's Christmas Album (which she has on an old record). I feel no remorse in burning a copy for myself, I would have gone out and bought a copy if they where available (and I will if they ever do).
Ok... I've ranted enough for today....
PHIL