Value
What is value and how do you measure it in a world that is all about the free? Or at least getting the free? Free everything on the Internet. I have a friend that has over 500 albums downloaded from the Internet. That she’s never listened to. So while she has something it has no value so therefore no interest.
I have another friend who is now only buying music now. He had a huge library of downloaded free/stolen/liberated music but didn’t invest the time to listen, really listen, to his music. Therefore the it had no meaning.
Now he’s only getting music from iTunes. It’s not having the physical that’s important to him. It’s the fact that he is investing in his own enjoyment by paying for something he cares about. That’s where he’s finding the value.
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I dunno…depends on the meaning of “free”. Free as in Free Beer? Or Free Speech? I like both. The Charlatans gave away their latest album, which I downloaded and like. I listen to Beecake almost every day on Myspace, and I love them, every new tune just a bit better. I have This Is Happening seriously stuck in my head which is about as free a music as there is. So I guess free does not = worthless to me, if it’s something dear to my heart.
Free as in stolen/taken/liberated?
That’s a whole other argument.
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Shat has a new book out: http://abcnews.go.com/GMA/Books/story?id=4836870
Shat is awesome and makes incredibly good sense to a politically moderate person like me.
I would say that the Beecake scenario isn’t free. They are letting you listen to it for free for you don’t actually own it. I don’t think free makes for a long term relationship in the same way that you describe your Charlatan example. I’m just not big on free at the moment.
Good point! Yes, the listening is free, but I’m dying for a full CD to come out. They really are quite talented, and each song seems to be better than the last. Lyrics, too, me being a textual type person.
Then there’s the argument that nothing is ever truly free.