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- built2spill, on 01/10/2009, -1/+18Good. What better way to legitimize BitTorrent in the eyes of ISPs and perhaps the government. ***** the RIAA.
- StoneDead, on 01/08/2009, -0/+10This is great news, more indie labels should do this!
- bbliss17, on 01/08/2009, -0/+8I agree. This is the future!
- bbliss17, on 01/08/2009, -2/+5lol
- ctpmn, on 01/09/2009, -2/+5For the Republic!
- Premier, on 01/10/2009, -0/+3great name ...
- hufman, on 01/10/2009, -0/+3By posting to Bittorrent, they can enjoy the full bandwidth-relieving benefits of the Bittorrent protocol and do not need to purchase their own host and bandwidth.
- DeusNova, on 01/10/2009, -0/+2A lot of indie labels upload their stuff on private trackers. Private music trackers are the best way to discover music!
- proton, on 01/10/2009, -0/+2This has been going on for years by various netlabels - just no articles on it.
- pigfister, on 01/10/2009, -0/+1Just as the RIAA (ala Sony and Co) have forced indie off of the radio and the the internet radio through Sony payola deals and underhand plain thievery, the RIAA will find a way to stop them giving their media away over the interweb.
lets not for get who is actually behind the RIAA - MPAA, these are the companies that need to be targeted and/or boycotted into changing their ways.
Name and shame the companies as all the **AA trade group name is for is to protect the ***** capitalist corporate globalist wankers from bad press.
RIAA, CRIA, SOUNDEXCHANGE, BPI, IFPI, Ect:
# Sony BMG Music Entertainment
# Warner Music Group
# Universal Music Group
# EMI
MPAA, MPA:
# Sony Pictures
# Warner Bros. (Time Warner)
# Universal Studios (NBC Universal)
# The Walt Disney Company
# 20th Century Fox (News Corporation)
# Paramount Pictures Viacom—(DreamWorks owners since February 2006)
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How the RIAA stole air time for indie artists from the internet!
RIAA Claims Ownership of All Artist Royalties For Internet Radio
http://slashdot.org/articles/07/04/29/0335224.shtm ...
"With the furor over the impending rate hike for Internet radio stations, wouldn't a good solution be for streaming internet stations to simply not play RIAA-affiliated labels' music and focus on independent artists? Sounds good, except that the RIAA's affiliate organization SoundExchange claims it has the right to collect royalties for any artist, no matter if they have signed with an RIAA label or not. 'SoundExchange (the RIAA) considers any digital performance of a song as falling under their compulsory license. If any artist records a song, SoundExchange has the right to collect royalties for its performance on Internet radio. Artists can offer to download their music for free, but they cannot offer their songs to Internet radio for free ... So how it works is that SoundExchange collects money through compulsory royalties from Webcasters and holds onto the money. If a label or artist wants their share of the money, they must become a member of SoundExchange and pay a fee to collect their royalties.'"
http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2007/4/24/141326 ... - pigfister, on 01/10/2009, -0/+1i hat to burst your bubble but the RIAA members are just big scam, they work like a protection racket. Hufman is 100% correct, sharing via bittorrent is far more reaching especially if you cannot get global promotion because the gatekeepers price you out.
RIAA, CRIA, SOUNDEXCHANGE, BPI, IFPI, Ect:
# Sony BMG Music Entertainment
# Warner Music Group
# Universal Music Group
# EMI
MPAA, MPA:
# Sony Pictures
# Warner Bros. (Time Warner)
# Universal Studios (NBC Universal)
# The Walt Disney Company
# 20th Century Fox (News Corporation)
# Paramount Pictures Viacom—(DreamWorks owners since February 2006)
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RIAA Claims Ownership of All Artist Royalties For Internet Radio
http://slashdot.org/articles/07/04/29/0335224.shtm ...
"With the furor over the impending rate hike for Internet radio stations, wouldn't a good solution be for streaming internet stations to simply not play RIAA-affiliated labels' music and focus on independent artists? Sounds good, except that the RIAA's affiliate organization SoundExchange claims it has the right to collect royalties for any artist, no matter if they have signed with an RIAA label or not. 'SoundExchange (the RIAA) considers any digital performance of a song as falling under their compulsory license. If any artist records a song, SoundExchange has the right to collect royalties for its performance on Internet radio. Artists can offer to download their music for free, but they cannot offer their songs to Internet radio for free ... So how it works is that SoundExchange collects money through compulsory royalties from Webcasters and holds onto the money. If a label or artist wants their share of the money, they must become a member of SoundExchange and pay a fee to collect their royalties.'"
http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2007/4/24/141326 ... - zombiedepot, on 01/10/2009, -0/+1Don't forget about Jamendo.
- bigbangbuddha, on 01/10/2009, -0/+1This fits 100% with my philosophy on music:
No one can ever become a famous musician, they can only create famous music. After that they are just along for the ride. - pigfister, on 01/10/2009, -0/+1lets not for get who is actually behind the MPAA - RIAA:
RIAA, CRIA, SOUNDEXCHANGE, BPI, IFPI, Ect:
# Sony BMG Music Entertainment
# Warner Music Group
# Universal Music Group
# EMI
MPAA, MPA:
# Sony Pictures
# Warner Bros. (Time Warner)
# Universal Studios (NBC Universal)
# The Walt Disney Company
# 20th Century Fox (News Corporation)
# Paramount Pictures Viacom—(DreamWorks owners since February 2006) - inactive, on 01/10/2009, -0/+1Best of luck to them. I'll give it a listen. I make a point to buy music that I love.. sometimes in several formats. I do a lot of downloading first, though. I like clicking through Amazon to find music that I've never heard of and then torrenting it to give it a shot. If I don't like it, no harm done. If it's something I think I may listen to a lot, I'll definitely buy it. If it's something I fall in love with, I tell everyone I know. I know that "try before you buy" is a cliche, but in my case, it's the reason for about half of my massive CD collection.
- specialK16, on 01/10/2009, -1/+1Now that we are talking about music.
http://listen.grooveshark.com/#/song/The_Importanc ...
Can anyone tell who is the real band that plays that song? It was confirmed some years ago that it wasn't TPS. - boomqweeshaa, on 01/10/2009, -1/+1Free music? Sure I'll listen to your newest band while I'm checking email, digg, etc. If I like it I may even BUY the album on Amazon. Look at that record labels, by not trying to screw me you managed to get some of my money!
- crossmr, on 01/10/2009, -1/+11 to 2 is an "increase" where is the evidence that this is becoming a "trend". Buzzwords and weasel words don't make great reading..
- scy1192, on 01/10/2009, -1/+1I highly doubt you can support 5 artists without any income.
- foltaggio, on 01/10/2009, -3/+1***** THE RIAA!
- BrianElden, on 01/08/2009, -8/+5FOR NARNIA!
- inactive, on 01/10/2009, -8/+1Obama and his RIAA cronies will put an end to this.
YES WE CANTS - Nespithe, on 01/10/2009, -9/+1How about you just upload the songs to your own damn server so i dont have to worry about some riaa ***** even if you put it out your self
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