Music Industry Proposes a Piracy Surcharge on ISPs
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they are on something if they think that will go though..... how many people who use the internet that dont even know how to download music if their life depended on it.......
the music industry needs to stop charging $15 or more for a cd that has 2-3 songs i even want to hear anyways..... last couple cds i even looked at had like 15 tracks not even a hour of music...... heck i have xm in the car winamp/online xm at the comp. thats 20-30 stations.... when i am in the car between xm and the radio i get though about one cd every couple weeks. why bother with them.
the music industry needs to stop charging $15 or more for a cd that has 2-3 songs i even want to hear anyways..... last couple cds i even looked at had like 15 tracks not even a hour of music...... heck i have xm in the car winamp/online xm at the comp. thats 20-30 stations.... when i am in the car between xm and the radio i get though about one cd every couple weeks. why bother with them.
The industry should look at what bands like Nine Inch Nails and Radiohead are doing, and learn to adapt, and make the internet work with them, rather than trying to suck us dry!
Seriously. People get all bent over not making X millions of dollars every year. Something better comes along that competes, hey we don't have to adapt, lets just sue everyrone.
This reminds me of something similar...I've been playing bass guitar for a number of years, and I enjoy learning how to play songs I like listening too (as many guitarists do), as well as improvisational stuff. For a while, I used to get a lot of tab music from the Bass Tab Archive, basically a database of user-submitted tab. I went there one day to find it shut down, with a message saying something to the effect of, we can't host tab music any more because we are being sued by people who sell licensed tabs, and they are losing too much money because people can get them free here instead of buying them. Whats next, you're no longer allowed to sing along with your favorite radio stations because you haven't paid for the rights to the lyrics?
This reminds me of something similar...I've been playing bass guitar for a number of years, and I enjoy learning how to play songs I like listening too (as many guitarists do), as well as improvisational stuff. For a while, I used to get a lot of tab music from the Bass Tab Archive, basically a database of user-submitted tab. I went there one day to find it shut down, with a message saying something to the effect of, we can't host tab music any more because we are being sued by people who sell licensed tabs, and they are losing too much money because people can get them free here instead of buying them. Whats next, you're no longer allowed to sing along with your favorite radio stations because you haven't paid for the rights to the lyrics?
actually that's pretty much already happened. the riaa/ascap threatened girl scouts for singing songs that were not public domain. in the UK the performing rights society went after a charity that performed christmas carols and also businesses where employees played their music loud enough so that customers could hear it (no performance license).
bands have come out and said,they lose no money from people downloading instead of buying cd s ,they only get like 1% of every cd sold... they make there money from tours and merchandise..some bands,i think Rush did,put there music on the internet for free
yea Trent Reznor has been trying to give his music away for free, and his label wouldn't allow it! So he quit the label, seriously, DLing is not a crime!
is it actually an offence to download music on say limewire in the US?? cuz i think there are loopoles ( spelt right?? ) in the law in canada so it is legal to do.
Radiohead's newest album (in rainbows) was posted on their website, and we are able to download it at whatever price we think it's worth . .. Which was a cool approach,
NIN posted their newest album, (ghosts) as a free download... They've done lots to promote this "new generation" of listening to music.
Bands like this are getting a great deal of respect from anyone concerned with what the RIAA are constantly trying to do to rip us off.