[Nettime-bold] Re: <nettime> Terror in Tune Town

["Gil Tucker [ateliermobile]" <gil@ateliermobile.de>]

The David v Goliath image that the Napster people would like the world to
belive is just not true.
As  the musician rightly said it`s just corporate entities engaged in a slug
fest. But the one good
thing about all of this is. the napster type technologies are available.
As more and more people are using their brains,skills, and imagination it is
getting increasingly
difficulty for any single entity to monopolize and control the tools and
toys that we need for work
and play.
                  gil tucker









----- Original Message -----
From: scotartt <scot@systemx.autonomous.org>
To: Nettime <nettime-l@bbs.thing.net>
Sent: Tuesday, August 15, 2000 7:01 AM
Subject: Re: <nettime> Terror in Tune Town


>
> > what about: "property is theft" - j.j. rousseau ...
>
> Hmm. just re-reading this thread after Felix's excellent comments and I
> found this quote. Actually the quote, which is most relevant here is the
> one on the pamphlett by Proudhon (sp?) which goes "Property is theft.
> Property is freedom". Lots of people, it seems, love to leave that last
> sentence off.
>
> However as a musician, I don't find much positive development in either
> Napster, or its trenchant corporate opposition. It, and others eg MP3.com
> etc, are just the *new* record company; one that doesn't ever pay its
> artists anything. Its just corporations fighting other corporations with
> rarely a thought of the people they claim to represent.
>
> regs scot.
>
>
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