>i just read a blog entry from a porn producer who's borrowed
>the tiny violin the music industry plays for itself and is now
>playing the world's smallest violin for himself and the porn
>industry in an attempt to make us all feel the same guilt
>about porn that we are supposed to feel about records. he
>wants us to buy porn b/c we love it so much

i worry about anyone with that kind of attachment to porn

but i disagree that ppl shouldnt feel guilty for downloading music for free. theres no difference between that and stealing apples from an orchard or a cow from a farm. dont act like its your right.

idk about the idea that 'guilt' is the model today though. the emerging model now is how can we get people to pay - whether mp3s, streaming, subscription services, whatever - for something they have no incentive to pay for? guilt isnt effective enough to make people pay for anything. no one buys records or cds out of guilt, they buy it cos they like it. which is what is eroding the music biz - people buying something cos they like it rather than cos they have to (as they did when there was no other way of 'accessing' the 'content'), its a very niche business that only a minority of ppl will be sympathetic to.