[BC] Arrested for just telling people where tofindCopywrited material.

RichardBJohnson at comcast.net RichardBJohnson at comcast.net
Mon Oct 22 12:18:39 CDT 2007


Yes! It's like collecting stamps.

  "See what I've got!", she says as she thumbs
 through her iPod.
  "Neato...!" says her giggling chum,
  "I don't have that many yet..."

--
Cheers,
Richard B. Johnson
Read about my book
http://www.LymanSchool.org


 -------------- Original message ----------------------
From: Tom Dimeo <mwam at pa321.net>
> I am not in contact with many teens and early twenties people 
> but the few I do hear talking about music seem to talk more 
> about how many songs they have on their MP3 player or Ipod 
> and not so much about "what" they have on it.  Last week 
> there was a story on the Wall Street Journal This Morning 
> that reported that (think I remember the correct percentage) 
> forty-five percent of the young people don't really like most 
> of the music on their portable players, they just have it 
> because it's the "in" thing to have.
> 
> Tom
> 
> ** Robert Orban Wrote: **
> >They *do* have a viable product to sell. The fact that it is 
> >being illegally downloaded so much should tell you something. 
> >There seems to be a fantasy among subscribers to this list 
> >that the record companies don't make products that people 
> >want to buy just because the product doesn't much appeal to 
> >the 50+ crowd that hangs out here. If the record companies 
> >did not have compelling products, they wouldn't be stolen so 
> >much! But no matter how compelling your product, you can't 
> >compete with "free."
> 



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