On Apr 3, 2005 1:04 PM, Wolfgang Woehl <tito@email-addr-hidden> wrote:
> MarC <marc_contrib@email-addr-hidden>:
>
> > I raise this issue because I'm starting a musical project and I would
> > like to never release any work that could end like
> > http://www.lokitorrent.com/ when the people shares it, I would like
> > to use other musicians works (and I can't afford to pay them for such
> > work now) and I would finally like to win fairly some money making
> > good music (without this money I will never be able to buy decent
> > instruments)
> >
> > is it an utopia?
>
> Marc, I'm flabbergasted. This is 2005. There's no way you could prevent
> people from copying or sharing things in the digital domain. DRM is a
> joke. The industry that promotes it is a joke. The business model is
> gone, don't you know that?
>
> How can anyone *own* music? How did Bach do it? How did Capitol Records
> do it? The only way to make that claim to some extent real were
> technical limitations -- and those are gone for good.
>
> Coming up with something like G-C-E7 is a complex process, sure ;) Hell,
> make it Bbmaj9-Gm7-F/C-C-D/C. But do you really intend to say this is
> yours? That you invented this, put it into the world, out of the blue?
> Isolated from everything you've ever heard or experienced in your life?
> Originality someone? What is that?
>
> Share your stuff and you will get back more than you ever dreamed of. To
> make money it is, in my experience, fairly promising to put your
> family's estate to sensible use or, in the lack of an estate, work. The
> clownesque, inspired, spiritual, grotesque, old-fashioned, great field
> of making music will probably get you all *but* money.
>
> I'm a bit ashamed to see that all this sounds quite patronizing. Excuse
> me, Marc. This a patronizing day and it transfers.
>
> Wolfgang
>
I would like to share my "work" like GPL does it : You use it then you
have to go GPL as well;)
>
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