Now McCartney is suing MP3.com

[mgordon99]

Can you believe this? http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/nm/20000324/en/music-mp3com_1.html

Paul McCartney’s publishing company suing MP3.com, give me a break, MP3.com is a legitimate backup service, not like Napster. I have backed up all of my CD’s, including a few of McCartney’s, on MP3.com. It beats having to load CD’s all the time, and you can make custom play lists.

When will the recording industry would just wake up and face the “music”, that MP3 is here to stay, as a legitimate format? The money-hungry fools have been taking advantage of artists from the get-go. I guess they know that MP3 will radically change the landscape of the recording industry. Too late.

[grandslammer]

No matter how much you like his music, McCartney is a business man. Look, he ended up with the rights to the Beatle's music. Guess it pissed off the others too. (would me!)

But he's looking for the buck. Hell, look who he married... Tell me her family wasn't loaded to the guills?

Mike

[welsh wizard]

The only thing baby face see's is $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$ and he don't really care how or who he has to nail to get them.
WW

[grandslammer]

Yup W/W, I think you've got his number...

http://www.sysopt.com/forum/wink.gif Mike

[Mr Twobit]

Whenever a person 'buys' a CD or other format of music, they are purchasing a license to listen to the music contained on the media. I agree with anyone that archives their music to ensure a future recording. But let's face it, that's not what's happening with MP3s. MP3s are being passed around like trading cards. Anyone that has music they didn't pay to have is stealing. Justify it anyway you want. Don't go removeing straw from someone's eye till you get the rafter out of your own.

[welsh wizard]

I am not knocking the law,but don't blame MP3 for the abuse, blame the perp, It should be your right by law if you buy a CD to be able to make a back up, in order to protect your purchase. I don't agree with multi copies that are sold or traded.but neither do I agree with greed trying to make MP3 the scap goat.
WW

[hd581]

2bit, I'm not going to dispute whether copying MP3's is right or wrong. The law says it's illegal. So it's illegal. But how illegal?

I consider it akin to driving 31 MPH in a 30 MPH speed limit zone. If you've done this, you've (turns on Megaphone) broken the laaaaaaaaaawww. (And since you're quoting from the Bible...) Don't be so hasty to cast the first stone.

[mgordon99]

"MP3s are being passed around like trading cards. Anyone that has music they didn't pay to have is stealing."

So if I buy a trading card and trade it with someone, I am stealing? When I listen to a song on the radio?

Even if it is stealing, you tell me how to regulate it. How are you going to enforce any law that deals with a digital format that travels over a digital medium, intersecting at millions of points across the globe.

They haven't even figured out how to filter spam and porn yet. So don't go quoting bible verses when it comes to MP3.

[Mr Twobit]

Thank you hd581 for proving my point. You made it so nicely.....We All Break The Law in Some Way or Another and We ALL Justify it!
In this case, those of us that 'have' MP3's feel that condeming Mr. McCartney to a barrage of name-calling makes our 'ill gotten gains' more justifiable.

Furthermore, I drive 62 in a 55 zone! Let's see, my speedometer off, the traffic was moving faster, i'm safer when I'm faster.........

PS. I don't throw stones. I return them to their rightful owner. Justify that.

[hd581]

Actually 2bit, you proved my point. I agree: we shouldn't go knocking others for doing bad things when we do worse things. You admitted you speed. Breaking the established speed limit puts people's lives at risk. Stealing MP3's is taking from the rich (recording industry) and giving to the poor (namely, me).

As for your speeding "justification": you are not free to interpret the law as you see fit. If there is a danger with driving too slow, it is your duty as a citizen to lobby for a new law to raise it to a safer level. Until then, you must remain entirely within the law regardless of your personal safety.