Re: Israel Music Today: Piracy

[robert wiener <wiener...>]

Ari is correct that the report, as I heard it on Marketplace, did not
mention Palestinians.

Regardless, without buyers, there would be no market.

Bob

-----Original Message-----
From: Judy Pinnolis <pinnolis (at) brandeis(dot)edu>
To: World music from a Jewish slant <jewish-music (at) shamash(dot)org>
Date: Friday, July 30, 1999 12:29 PM
Subject: Re: Israel Music Today: Piracy


>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
>>the klezmer shack: http://www.klezmershack.com/
>>
>>
>>
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