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"Back in the day" as they say copying 8 tracks or double dubbing copies of albums for friends onto cassette was pretty common. Still I wanted my own albums and would buy music. Copying was more for convience of having a car copy to use. More like putting software from tower pc to laptop.My initial thoughts are if the delivery medium of choice is going to be single song internet sales for music then the music industry is going to have to go after pirates to protect the artists. Simplistically, its not like these kids are ripping a copy to their ipod and then going to Best Buy to purchase the CD.
Think the article got it wrong though. Don't think the RIAA is going after college students because they don't have money. Other way around. They have a future, and future income, Mommy and Daddy likely have money, etc...
Man, for $7.87 I could find 7 lps at SA. That's probably about, on average, 45 songs. Hmmm...now where did I put that click/pop repair software so I can rip these to CD.
Regards,
HB
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...what would they have done? Stay with LPs? yeaaa maaaaaaan.... what great idea.
#1)I would KILL to have thousands of people downloading my songs.
#2)Last I checked, the artist gets next to nothing off the album -- their pay comes from ticket and t-shirt sales.
#3)Real stealing would be downloading the album, burning it, and selling it for a profit.Is the RIAA right as far as the law and rules of business are concerned? Sure, they have exclusive copyright of a commodity that people want and have to protect it.
Are they morally "right"? Hell no. The only way they can make a profit is by having an utter stranglehold on the medium. They screw artists and fans alike and call it fair business; it's disgusting.What I find most ironic is that the very virtues they lauded in digital (over analog) provide the disintegration of the aforementioned stranglehold.
"The Blues ain't about makin' yourself feel better; it's about makin' other people feel worse!" -- Bleedin' Gums Murphy
... why on earth should I have to support the cocaine habits of A&R men when in the end, all they want to do is force feed nitwits like Nickleback, Gwen Stefani and Fergie down my throat.
she said so!
"The Blues ain't about makin' yourself feel better; it's about makin' other people feel worse!" -- Bleedin' Gums Murphy
$7.87 per song? Event the standard charges of around US$1 per song are too high when the customer gets no physical medium or notes, and has to provide the storage medium and backup.As an ex-pro musician, I want to see musicians and record companies get paid fairly, but I think this is simply bad business. There are increasing numbers of musicians looking for different business models to ensure their music gets heard and they get paid. Existing major record companies are not always part of these models. One such Canadian group is at http://www.musiccreators.ca/wp/
It's been my experience and opinion that the major record companies are seldom on the side of the musicians and writers. They are, after all, a business with stockholders, and have to make money. Here in Canada, parliament was pressured into creating a blank media levy that is paid to the recording industry on all blank audio cassettes and recordable CDs. Thus, no matter what you use cassettes and CDs for (backup? your own work? photos?, you are required to pay a levy on each blank unit which goes to the recording industry. Theoretically, this covers us for making an extra copy of media for our own use (in the car, or backup). It's also a cash cow for the industry, who are now pressuring to have the levy raised. Does the money go to the musicians? Which ones--does Celine Dion get it all? What about small recording companies? I don't know the answers to those questions, and will have to do some poking around.
Anyone who is a professional recording musician or is considering becoming one should take a look at some of the literature on the business first. Careers are made and destroyed by the "starmaking machinery" (thanks, Joni) and it can be a brutal business. Artists who have signed contracts can be sidelined for years, and not be allowed to work for anyone else, if their company decides not to push them. Will they get paid fairly?
If anyone is interested, here are some stories relating to downloading and the music business in general, from more of a musician's viewpoint:
Singer Janis Ian on the issue (a very good read)
http://www.janisian.com/article-internet_debacle.html
and interviewed on Slashdot
http://interviews.slashdot.org/interviews/02/09/23/133228.shtml?tid=1412004 Guardian story on downloading
http://arts.guardian.co.uk/netmusic/story/0,,1186075,00.htmlHarvard Business School report
http://www.unc.edu/~cigar/papers/FileSharing_March2004.pdfCourtney Love does the Math - who are the real pirates?
http://dir.salon.com/story/tech/feature/2000/06/14/love/index.htmlBTW, I don't download; I buy CDs and LPs for a number of reasons.
Excellent point and thanks for the links. Really, what's the purpose of a record label if your song is going to be purchased over the intenet. Form a band, practice, put your songs on your webpage and go on a promotional tour. Elminate the middle man. Now if that could happen with the distillation of crude oil into gasoline that would really fatten the wallet.
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Here's what I want to know:Let's say I've got a particular song 4 times over at home. Let's say I have the original paid-for CD, LP, cassette and a box-set giving me the rights to own a particular song. Now, let's say one day I snag the song off a file-sharing program because I want to hear it while I'm somewhere else and I get a $3K extortion letter from the RIAA. Would I have the defense that I didn't steal anything- that I legally own the song and did not acquire anything new for free by downloading it?
Not being a lawyer, but having slept in a holdiay inn last night, I think purchasing entitles you to enjoyment of said copyright material for your own personal enjoyment. Hence, if you want to burn a copy off one CD to make another CD for the summer cottage on Lake Michigan your ok, I think. Therefore, if you download a shareware copy at some remote location for your own personal enjoyment I don't think there is any infringement. Your are simply enforcing your users entitlements. Maybe. Probably cost a lot of dough to find out.
Only if you are a lawyer! And then, probably not. I'd just tell 'em to come and get me. Who were those guys that the FBI burned out?
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If I had more money I'd soon be broke...but I'd have more LPs!
What a good use for an UZI!"Hello, I'm a student at Eatmeraw University, I'd like to meet your attorneys and make a settlement." Rat-a-tat-tat, dead lawyers' bodies flying like acrobats.
Sometimes I just have to let out the nasties!
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If I had more money I'd soon be broke...but I'd have more LPs!
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