Posted on 08/21/2002 10:34:16 AM PDT by Leroy S. Mort
It shouldn't be, but they make it my business by constantly harping on the fact that they are being screwed over by the labels. That's what that show seems to be about. It's like a venue for the artists to vent about the screwing they have to take to try to make it in the business. Watch it some time.
Who is working for who? Is the artist the one hiring the label? I think I already know that answer.
It shouldn't be, but they make it my business by constantly harping on the fact that they are being screwed over by the labels. That's what that show seems to be about. It's like a venue for the artists to vent about the screwing they have to take to try to make it in the business. Watch it some time.
Who is working for who? Is the artist the one hiring the label? I think I already know that answer.
So, we should scrap our system of laws in favor of appeasing whatever a majority wishes. I think that's called mob rule.
And you calling me rude is a laugh after you stupidly sneered at me and suggested I educate myself on the music business.
Yet they keep on signing with the major labels. Must not be that bad.
Well, it seems everyone has learned well from the Democrats, if you want to steal from someone, you first demagogue them and then de-legitimize their rights. I just find it strangely fascinating to see so many on FR in lockstep with the Democrats mindset.
I'm hardly trolling. My statements are rooted in sincere belief and the principles of law. I'm not employed by a record company and haven't been for nearly 10 years.
Just so you know where I'm coming from (mostly so you'll quit imparting your own prejudice and assumptions), I'm no fan of the major record companies. I haven't been on a record company payroll for almost 10 years. I detest some of the standard practices of the record companies, both in the past and present. I am 100% an advocate for artists and writers. If they could make a career in the music business without the aid of record companies, I'd be all for it.
But sad to say, experience has taught me that record companies are a necessary part of the equation. They serve a function that most artists can't or don't want to do, namely all the unpleasant marketing and number crunching that left-brain people like artists are so averse to.
As much as everyone likes to fashion themselves as some kind of technological revolutionaries fighting the big bad record companies, when it comes down to it, when you deprive record companies their due profit, you're harming the artist. That's where I get pi$$ed off.
Most artists, Dave Mathews and Ani DiFranco being the rare exception, wouldn't have a career without the record companies.
Stupid laws are as dangerous as enforcing them. I would propose the change of the law - pirating software/media over internet would be a misdemeanor punishable by a small fine (like 10% of the market value) on condition of erasing the all copies of it. Perpetuator could agree to buy the official copy to avoid misdemeanor proceedings.
We are talking about copywrited material.
If it's public domain, that's one thing...go for it.
If the newest garage band wants to bypass the existing system and market by giving away (or selling) 'free samples' over the internet...more power to them.
But if you don't like they way the record companies do business...do what we have always done...send them a message....QUIT BUYING FROM THEM!
I got a call from my old (and still Democrat) college roommate. He said, "You've got DSL? Go here you can DL songs."
I said, "Is it legal?"
He laughed as if when has that ever stopped a liberal...power to the people and all that.
I want no part of it.
Unfortunately, attempts by the industry to prevent and criminalize various actions that fall squarely within the realm of fair use (e.g. ripping of CDs to hard disk in order to convert them to MP3s) are reality, not fantasy. The same is true of industry attempts to gain a legal license to hack computers and a legal prohibition on devices that do not incorporate rights-restriction technologies.
Sorry, but these actions have reduced my respect for even their legitimate bootlegging concerns to the same level as my respect for the national sovereignty of Afghanistan (as of October 2001).
Who? Oh you must be referring to Mrs. Andre Previn.
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