Comments on: MySpaceMusic (shudder) http://www.p2pnet.net/story/15492 p2pnet.net offers not-your-lamescream news on movies music digital media P2P peer-to-peer TV television file sharing freedom of speech open source product news Wifi mobiles company Mon, 01 Dec 2008 21:13:09 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.2.1 By: Reader's Write http://www.p2pnet.net/story/15492#comment-392287 Reader's Write Sun, 06 Apr 2008 03:40:13 +0000 http://www.p2pnet.net/story/15492#comment-392287 not you again not you again

]]> By: Henry Emrich http://www.p2pnet.net/story/15492#comment-389491 Henry Emrich Sat, 05 Apr 2008 06:05:00 +0000 http://www.p2pnet.net/story/15492#comment-389491 This is what fascinates me about p2pnet.net: You CLAIM to be "music lovers", and that p2pers would GLADLY pay musicians -- IF the price is "fair" (whatever that means) -- but then, any attempt by anyone to "monetize" (charge for) music or movies or anything like that online, and we get this same basic whimpering. p2p advocates already HAVE access to the entire recorded output of every medium in human history, and due to the incomprehensibly huge amount of p2p traffic of all kinds the threat of "enforcement" lawsuits is so vanishingly small that nobody in their right mind could POSSIBLY be scared by it. But somehow, any attempt to creat alternatives which DO NOT involve "free" content and screw-the-artists, and we get this type of thing. Sad. If p2p advocates REALLY cared about the artists as much as they claim, their mouthpieces such as this blog wouldn't sneer at "monetized" ventures of this kind, but would WELCOME them as yet another outlet. This is what fascinates me about p2pnet.net:
You CLAIM to be “music lovers”, and that p2pers would GLADLY pay musicians — IF the price is “fair” (whatever that means) — but then, any attempt by anyone to “monetize” (charge for) music or movies or anything like that online, and we get this same basic whimpering.

p2p advocates already HAVE access to the entire recorded output of every medium in human history, and due to the incomprehensibly huge amount of p2p traffic of all kinds the threat of “enforcement” lawsuits is so vanishingly small that nobody in their right mind could POSSIBLY be scared by it.

But somehow, any attempt to creat alternatives which DO NOT involve “free” content and screw-the-artists, and we get this type of thing.

Sad. If p2p advocates REALLY cared about the artists as much as they claim, their mouthpieces such as this blog wouldn’t sneer at “monetized” ventures of this kind, but would WELCOME them as yet another outlet.

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