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Listed below are comments made by Jon Freeman between Monday, 4th May 2009 and Wednesday, 27th May 2009.

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Jez Lowe on Folk Clubs and Comedy 8:30pm on 27 May 2009 I'm not sure I ever really got on with them although I did enjoy some of Max Boyce.

I certainly would not argue with you over the abilities of people like Mike Harding but even then on TV, I (in your terms) sort of found myself screaming at the set "for heaven's sake, get on with your 'proper' job".

There was one though I heard live years ago. Not sure if it was the beer that night or my mood, the atmosphere or what but someone called Stanley Accrington had me in stitches.
Broadband: Who wants to be number one? 09:14am on 11 May 2009 #6, Your point number 2 is a big one to me. We had one nightmare. Service had dropped to a level where the Internet was unusable in the evenings and having tried support, I think we were left with no alternative but to change provider.

We couldn't get the MAC code so we wound up back to square one and BT line checks as ASDL was removed from the line and then restored. We found costs to the free domain name, etc. I suppose we wouldn't have minded so much if we were trying to just get the cheapest deal but the reason for moving was the service had become appauling. With this co, it was easy to get in to but not easy to get out of.
Patents, pirates and iPods 03:31am on 06 May 2009 #40

It might be interesting and I found it funny but, while surviving, I'd predict that they would see at least 10% of the increased downloads as further loss of income, possibly even argue that the sites broken by this traffic only demonstrate further reasons for tighter controls on the Internet, etc.
Patents, pirates and iPods 11:57pm on 05 May 2009 #37

rip your legally-owned CDs onto your iPod. Something which is clearly not 'theft' as you've already paid the artist/music industry for the music on the CDs!

I might think it unreasonable but under the terms of sale I think you could have paid for one copy, not two.
Patents, pirates and iPods 10:56am on 05 May 2009 #35
Fair comment but perhaps in a summing up, that lawyer might say "obtaining an in a manner that deprives others of income from royalties to which they are entitled is a moral equivalent to theft"?
Patents, pirates and iPods 6:03pm on 04 May 2009 #30, I'm afraid not.

The only related issue I am aware of is one involving the purchase of the catalogues of companies such as Leader by Celtic music. Apparently there is a lot of (folk) music there and as far as I understand it only occasionaly releases a CDR (which seems to raise its own issues vs pressed CDs and MCPS royalties). I've read of people wanting more released, particularly Nic Jones' material as, following an accident, he is no longer able to perform.

I've read many a heated argument on this but I have no suggestion as to the solution.
Patents, pirates and iPods 5:17pm on 04 May 2009 #28.

re #27 and your question, I agree with you that it is a good question. I have no easy answer (other that to say I would copy in such circumsances)

re #26. I am sorry but it is the music industry, not me that would need convincing and I do not believe they would not see it as theft.
Patents, pirates and iPods 4:26pm on 04 May 2009 #23. what do you do when companies/artists delete (or otherwise make unavailable) the music that the customer wants? how to deal with this?

Good question...
Patents, pirates and iPods 4:23pm on 04 May 2009 #25. You may be right on the technical legal terms but I'm doubtful you would convince the music industry and their lawyers that you were not committing a form of theft.
Patents, pirates and iPods 10:23am on 04 May 2009 #22, I don't dispute what you said happened but (sort of) "I stole a Mars Bar, found I like them. Now I but them and Mars makes more money because I stole" isn't too convincing is it? Also shouldn't it be up to the company (or artist, etc.) how they want to sell their wares?

Perhaps the music industry could be persuaded to use a different business model but I don't think "piracy" will ever be convincing, instead, it seems to give "justification" for other methods of revenue collection, etc.

If do don't like the way a business operates, don't find "free" ways of obtaining their products. Simply have nothing to do with their products or services. If piracy reduced significantly and no "reformed pirate" bought the "items" instead, perhaps the industry would be forced into rethinking it's policy? You collectively may have power but while you are slaves to needing the goods, whatever you may think you are doing, you are still empowering them in one way or other.

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