mp3.com — Nettwerk Music Group CEO Terry McBride says the record industry's litigation against users of P2P services are hurting musicians and the overall music business. McBride urged his cohorts at the major music companies to cease their litigation-driven anti-piracy efforts and embrace the new music-consumption habits of digital music fans.
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Closed AccountAug 21, 2006
Finally they are realising... the RIAA is evil..?
syntaxisAug 21, 2006
I have downloaded music the legal way. But only because it was the quick way of getting music onto my Ipod. Then I noticed that, once my computer configuration changed, my Ipod thought my music wasn't legal anymore and deleted it all with the next "synchronisation" leaving me with no music at all. Downloading it again for free? Impossible. Recovering it? Impossible.So I just said: "die in a burning stream of fiery lava, burn legal overpriced music, burn!" and started downloading about 20 GB worth of music, most of which I haven't listened to at all. But my modified Ipod really loves a full hard disk.The big bosses in the music industry need to get their stuff together. Quickly.Offer music downloads for 20 cent per song. That's better than 0 cent per song. Offer multiple formats and qualities. Don't put annoying protection on it that we can hack around anyway (or just ignore and download the illegal versions again).But they just want to see money. Money money money. So that they can keep their multi-billion buildings, keep driving their Jaguars, keep paying "artists" millions of dollars. Meanwhile.. I'll keep downloading instead of buying the overpriced CRAP they try to sell.
int19hAug 21, 2006
copyright infringement is not equal to stealing
fluffyarmadaAug 21, 2006
Anyone else remember the 90s? When you could make mix tapes and you didn't get sued? Nowadays, we can burn CDs with music on them, which are pretty much mix tapes, and it's illegal. Kinda sucks, eh?
davidkainAug 23, 2006
Kajico -- You make a good point, but it's worth pointing out that labels attracted bands in the first place because musicians don't want to deal with all that business crap. They want to make music, not promotions or marketing plans. Even on the internet, that's a lot of work.I'm not defending the labels, mind, just pointing out why they're still useful and desired by artists.