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Originally posted by bilmore
Similarly, when some sitar player in Buttcrack, Idaho makes a new song, the music bureaucracy takes that song in, indexes it, catalogs it, and distributes it over the music version of the Westlaw site (i.e., the radio/CD/promo circuit) in a way that makes it findable by me in Buttcrack, Minnesota. Without that service, I need to be looking at every indie musician's website, in every genre, if I want the ability to catch that sitar act.
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This can't be your argument going forward, though. I'm sure a much more cost effective version of the music's version of Westlaw (hell, maybe Westlaw itself will do it) will evolve once file sharing and song releases from indie musicians mesh. I bet that however it evolves (legally or illegally), the new internet middle man will be cheaper and more efficient than what we have now.
As far as the larger stealing/not stealing argument goes, I think I'm the only one on this site that doesn't do it.
TM
