I've read "
Embrace file-sharing, or die" twice now. It's an amazing article on more than one account. It's written by a record exec. It covers all the major points in the argument for and against file sharing. It covers them completely, with contextual links to everything else of note on the subject. It outright accuses the RIAA of "bad science". And it's right.
I like file sharing for all the good things Mr. Snyder has to say about it. And more. Historicly, art ain't easy to come by. Van Gough can stop you dead in your tracks. If your tracks happen to pass through a museum where one of his paintings lives. You could get a book... but it's really not the same. Even if it was, the price of a good "art" book is outside many peoples range. The world is full of people who know the name, but won't ever really know his work.
Meanwhile, I can sit here in the comfort of my own home and tell you (who I may not even know) about
some kids from Oakland CA (who you may not even know) that made a piece of music wherein a guy, with a voice so deeply nasal and full of natural reverb it could have only come from inside my own head, says the word "love" like someone who must know exactly what he's talking about. Most of the time it gives me goosebumps.
Maybe it'll do the same for you.
Right now (or in less time than it takes to watch a show on television, if your on a dial-up connection) you can find out for yourself.
Anticon: Pity Party People
Sharing is fun.