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Originally posted by Jack Manfred
I have no problem with the Feds coming down on file sharers so long as they prosecute record company execs under Federal criminal law for price-fixing and other antitrust violations.
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Originally posted by bilmore
That's all nice and theoretical and comfortable for thieves, but how much money do you send to the artists when you download?
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People who download music online without permission of record companies
are not thieves. The RIAA keeps making that argument as if saying it's so makes it so. De La Soul wasn't stealing from The Turtles when it put an uncleared sample on
3 Feet High and Rising. The Verve wasn't stealing from the Rolling Stones when it put an uncleared obscure string quartet transcription on "Bittersweet Symphony." Posdonus and Richard Ashcroft were never threatened with jail time.
Almost all of my mp3's are legal (downloaded from band websites) or quasi-legal (smashups or bootlegs) or led directly to the purchase of the actual CD from the artist. That's how the artist gets paid. I understand that if all music were downloaded without payment, no payment would go to the artist.
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Or, to the guys working in the disc factories?
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They're probably getting overtime pay for making all those blank CDs, as blank CD sales have surpassed all industry expectations. Those whose jobs are tied solely to the creation of music CDs should look for work because before we know it, most music will not be purchased by buying full-length CDs from a particular artist.
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Or, to the marketers who spent the money to get the song out there to the stations or clubs or . . .
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Fuck them. If everyone involved in marketing (and you can expand this to all countries and industries if you want, but that's another rant entirely) died tomorrow, the world would be a better place. So-called "independent" music promoters are helping Clear Channel kill radio right now. I have plenty of anger but no tears for them.
Many thanks to RT for doing the intellectual heavy lifting on the music copyright issue while I frittered away the evening watching
28 Days Later, which is not, as I initially thought, a sequel to the Sandra Bullock rehab movie, but instead, a pretty good horror movie by Danny Boyle. Saying that the picture is his take on zombie movies sounds kind of stupid, but the film isn't stupid. It's not the triumph that
Shallow Grave was, and it won't get the acclaim that
Trainspotting did, but it's worth seeing.
