Re: Israel Music Today: Piracy

[Judy Pinnolis <pinnolis...>]

Ari:
Prejudging is NOT necessarily racism. Cool the rhetoric on both sides,
please. Stick to the facts, mac. Judy.
At 10:49 AM 7/30/99 -0400, you wrote:
>Moshe,
>
>At 12:29 PM 7/30/99 +0300, you wrote:
>>It is well known here that great part of the Israeli music piracy is done by
>>the Palestinians.
>
>That may be popular Israeli prejudice, but it is not how the story
>is being reported. If you think about it, the entire purchasing 
>power of all Israeli and West Bank Arabs could not come close to
>accounting for 80% of the CDs sold in Israel, even if they ONLY
>bought pirated recordings. Nor do Palestinians have the manufacturing
>capacity or the commercial contacts to be supplying them in that 
>quantity.
>
>(And if Israeli music purchasers are like Israeli computer software
>purchasers, we can document that this is a national, not a racial
>problem, and quite serious, indeed.)
>
>Let's please refrain from injecting racism (in this case, unthinking
>blame of an unpopular minority for a problem) to our list discussions.
>
>ari
>
>
>Ari Davidow
>ari (at) ivritype(dot)com
>list owner, jewish-music (at) shamash(dot)org
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>
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