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Lava · May 23, 2004, 06:56 am

Lets get some perspective here. Music file sharing has been going on since at least the 1920s.

First the files were shared by radio. Initially they were recorded at home on discs of wax or aluminium - recording on alu blanks at home was fairly easy to do, and not at all expensive.

Then along came wire recorders. Then along came reel to reel tape which finally allowed top quality recording. By this time numerous radio and TV stations were sharing their analogue music files on a worldwide scale.

Since then ther have been 8 track cassette, compact cassette, CD, DVD, HDD and now RAM chips to store the files in. And one or two other oddities that remain obscure.

And the sharing pathways have been radio, TV, giving physical recordings to friends, internet, etc.

There is nothing new about this. Music companies were campaigning against file sharing in the 80s with the slogan 'home recording kills music'. Obviously it didnt...

Whats it all about? Money - what else?

Regards, Lava!

May 23, 2004, 06:56 am	#19 (permalink) (top)
Lava Igneous Magma Posts: 716	Lets get some perspective here. Music file sharing has been going on since at least the 1920s. First the files were shared by radio. Initially they were recorded at home on discs of wax or aluminium - recording on alu blanks at home was fairly easy to do, and not at all expensive. Then along came wire recorders. Then along came reel to reel tape which finally allowed top quality recording. By this time numerous radio and TV stations were sharing their analogue music files on a worldwide scale. Since then ther have been 8 track cassette, compact cassette, CD, DVD, HDD and now RAM chips to store the files in. And one or two other oddities that remain obscure. And the sharing pathways have been radio, TV, giving physical recordings to friends, internet, etc. There is nothing new about this. Music companies were campaigning against file sharing in the 80s with the slogan 'home recording kills music'. Obviously it didnt... Whats it all about? Money - what else? Regards, Lava!