Re: Israel Music Today: Piracy

[Trudi Goodman <goobietheg...>]

Thank you Ari-
Because that Palestinian comment bugged the hell out of me.
As for piracy, i run into it all the time, it wiil be harder to control now 
because CD Burners are being marketed.  maybe it's time for a dvx approach.  
Were people rent the disks in order to record them?
Trudi

>From: Ari Davidow <ari (at) ivritype(dot)com>
>Reply-To: jewish-music (at) shamash(dot)org
>To: World music from a Jewish slant <jewish-music (at) shamash(dot)org>
>Subject: Re: Israel Music Today: Piracy
>Date: Fri, 30 Jul 1999 10:49:53 -0400
>
>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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