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From: evan@telly.UUCP (Evan Leibovitch)
Newsgroups: tor.general,ont.general
Subject: Re: Compact Disk rentals
Message-ID: <264@telly.UUCP>
Date: 26 Jul 88 05:15:37 GMT
References: <8807240106.AA17556@explorer.dgp.toronto.edu> <258@telly.UUCP> <1869@looking.UUCP>
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Organization: System telly, Brampton, Ontario
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In article <1869@looking.UUCP>, brad@looking.UUCP (Brad Templeton) writes:
> Or, since these rentals take place against the express wishes of the artists
> and record companies, you could show respect to the performers you like and
> not rent them at all.

It's not the borrowing of the CDs themselves that causes the record companies
grief, so much as the use of these services to make illegal copies of the
original works. A service which lends CDs for a fee one day at a time is
tailor-made for people to make quick copies.

The CDs I really want, I buy. The CDs I'm interested in, but not enough to buy,
I borrow. There's already one case where I intend to buy a CD because I liked
the one I borrowed. No radio station plays it, and I would not have otherwise
heard of it. That's more exposure, and potentially more sales, not less.

Of course, the Brampton library is probably less likely than Mac's to stock
Megadeth or Johnny Hates Jazz. Some may consider that a benefit.
-- 
Evan Leibovitch, SA, system telly, located in beautiful Brampton, Ontario
            evan@telly.UUCP / {uunet!attcan,utzoo}!telly!evan
        "Aye, and if my grandmother had wheels, she'd be a wagon"