On 11/05/07, Karl Miller wrote: > Dismuke <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > > ***As we enter such a world, the RIAA is still obsessed > with and has desperately been trying to pretend that > people will continue using plastic discs that take up > shelf space and only hold 700 measly megabytes of > data. > > Yes, the "Cheese" is moving. For me, the digital world offers our > species a opportunity to break from our "hunter, gatherer" > orientation. Further, as bandwidth for wireless networks increases, > what need would a person have to maintain their own collection or > file, whether it be audio or anything else? assuming that we had a > good navigation tool for the information stream and low cost access. Reliability. I have too many experiences of servers failing to want to rely on some company to store the music I want to listen to. And what happens when they decide to clear out all the recordings that "nobody" (ie you and I) listens to? > > As an employee at a University that provides access to JSTOR I can > download PDFs of copyrighted articles. There is nothing keeping me > from sending that PDF to someone who does not have the same level of > access. Is that a copyright violation? probably so. It is so easy to > do, one does without even thinking about it. > > Even in the old days of reel to reel recordings and no email, as > collector of broadcast recordings of music not recorded commercially, > I remember how quickly a recording would circulate in what we used to > call the "tape underground." I can recall looking for a better > sounding copy of a broadcast and finding a collector on the other side > of the globe who had a copy. I would write a letter asking for a dub > in the hope that their version sounded better, only to find that their > copy had come from mine, something I had recorded off the air 30 years > ago! with, of course, several additional layers of hiss which had come > from subsequent redubbing. > > Ah, what we used to do...I am reminded of how the > Horowitz-Barbirolli Rachmaninoff Third Concerto was "liberated" from > New York Public Library (a small microphone was placed inside the > headphones with wire traveling inside a shirt to a briefcase with a > recorder inside). That tape quickly made the rounds. Where was Leon > Theremin when we needed him...an obscure reference a few of you might > catch... > > Increasingly it seems possible that only one person needs to pay and > then it "circulates." These days that applies to commercial > recordings/information with no loss in quality. > > I wonder where will we find financial incentives to make more > "cheese." > > Karl > Regards -- Don Cox [log in to unmask]