[Hudlug] Elvis Costello! I spit on the floor!

[Andy Macdonald]

To introduce a heretical thought, maybe programmers need to earn a living as
well as musicians ... 

On Wed, 25 Sep, Chris Wood  wrote:
> On Tuesday 24 September 2002 10:51 am, you wrote:
> > Poor Elvis, bit old out and out of touch. Well its like they say
> > "accidents will happen". I'm sure he didn't personally condone the DRM
> > aspect of the cd, but almost certainly, the ST did. I'll never buy it
> > again. Its the lowest of the low to back door such "upgrades". It begs
> > the question as to why anyone would use a M$ product- There are
> > literally no advantages in using the windows platform, their media
> > players suck and Office XP is overpriced krudd.
> >
> 
> I'm sure both ST, EC and his record company were all perfectly aware of how 
> the promotion was working.
> If you were a famous recording artist, how chuffed would you be if your 
> record sales were dropping because the general public were trading all your 
> music as mp3s? This is your livelihood remember! Careers tend to be short, 
> so you need to make as much money as you can whilst you are still famous.
> 
> I think most artists and record companies know that digital formats via the 
> internet are the future. 
> But they can't simply give that sort of material away, as there would then 
> be no record companies, and hence no beautifully recorded music, as it would 
> cost too much money to do more than record music in home studios.
> 
> I dunno - maybe your thoughts are different on this one.
> Don't get me wrong - I have a creative jukebox full of mp3s, but I do 
> personally own all the music on it as CDs as well. I ocassionally get mp3s 
> off mates, but I then generally go out and buy the CD if I liked the album.
> 
> Companies have to make money to survive. So do recording artists.
> Do them a favour - BUY their music if you like it.
> 
> Oh and as for advantages of MS products, I've used Unix for 10 years now, 
> and linux for 9. I use linux at home, and have done for many years, and have 
> used linux boxes as webservers, databases and firewalls in production 
> environments at work.
> Open office is getting quite good, and I'm writing this email on kmail.
> However, for word processing I would still fire up my Windows machine. No 
> question. The Office suite is still a country mile better than anything on 
> Unix.
> 
> ;-)
> 
> C.
> 
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