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Originally Posted by exploded  Wow...okay, um. Because something isn't a sustainable business, that doesn't make it illegal. A free grocery store would be a food bank, my friend.
Google has built their entire empire (except search) off of offering free products that compete directly with paid products. Look at open source software.
Corporations give away products all the time as promotions. That's what this is. It's basically a promotional giveaway for Converse. |
NOT ON THAT SCALE in any market. You don't get a full size box of cheerios in the mail, you get a tiny single serving box.
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I never said "because a business isn't sustainable", I said it's illegal to set up a business that gives away for free what is an established market in any area in America, and it is.
You can say whatever you want on that but, I've been in business before and that was the law then, I have no reason to believe it has changed. It is illegal.
There is a foodbank in Memphis and it is NOT a free grocery store. It's a store that takes donations and sells them to the poor at discounts. They are not restricted by normal laws for selling food that is still, "in date" (old stuff).
Still want to use that comparison?
Was the equipment donated o the studio?
Is it outdated and thus no threat to the common market?
If not, it's a nuisance.
Converse is in the tennis shoe market, when they start giving all their tennis shoes away, I'll see that as a fair analogy, but, they may be displacing workers in another industry who's families depend on their local income for self edification only.
I used to make a good living doing sessions in NYC in Brooklyn, Queens, Manhattan, and I charged for them. It put the groceries in the fridge and paid the bills etc.
If someone had come around trying to cut my throat "just to look cool" by pandering to my clients I would have a conversation with them. If it took on the proportions that building this beautiful behemoth could, that's when I call for help.
You can poke at me all you want for saying it, says more about you than me. I think that's one reason why people hate record people, some are spineless. Some of them would just go along to get along and wreck anyone in their way even if they were being stupid and callous to their own community in a very predictably detrimental fashion.
Hate me for worrying that some shoe company may not care about destroying a local industry just to look cool to the kids so they buy their shoes, IF that's what's up. I don't know if that's what's up but no one has said anything to the contrary. I like their shoes. If that is what's up my son will burn his "Chucks" in effigy and I'll record it and put it on youtube in hidef.goof I hope they open a school up, more a music school with a studio in it.THAT would be cool. A school that teaches funkmetal blues.
