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I'm so bad making my point on the internet that I sometimes say the opposite of what I'm trying to say. What I should have said is, music has been bound to a ph

• superuser2 14y ago
  The guy who memorizes songs and teaches them to people, at least the ones I know, don't have the mentality of "I want this song but 99 cents is too much and information wants to be free," he says, "I love this and I want to publicly engage with it." In the modern world, he's a YouTube cover artist, which I support wholeheartedly. Just as there is nothing wrong with burning a friend a CD for her birthday, or playing your iPod at a private party. This doesn't threaten artists or deprive them of money you otherwise would have handed over, it just creates new ways to promote and engage with the artist's creation. See also Spotify, music blogs (IMHO not really piracy, but shouldn't be done without the artists' permission), radio, Pandora, last.fm, etc. Pirate Bay is the guy who prints his own scores of someone else's work and leaves thousands of free copies on the street outside the sheet music store.