When is it Wrong to Download/Burn/Scalp?

Soundcheck | May 3, 2010
Do you download music illegally? Have you ever bought scalped tickets? Would you burn copies of a CD for friends? With so many technological changes facing music fans these days, it's often difficult to know where the ethical boundaries lie. Today, we take listener calls on the ethics of music consumption as we're joined by Randy Cohen, who writes the weekly column "The Ethicist" for the New York Times Magazine; and by Eric Garland, CEO of BigChampagne Media, a marketing research company focused on file-sharing networks. Later on the show: jazz and pop vocalist Nora York performs music from her new project, "Furtiva Lagrima" (Secret Tears). Taking operatic arias - from Purcell's "Dido and Aeneas" to Bizet's "Carmen" - she seeks to create "entirely new inventions" by juxtaposing the originals with pop, country, jazz and other musical styles.

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