Comments on: More on Music Piracy and Filesharing http://submitresponse.co.uk/weblog/2003/03/10/more-on-music-piracy-and-filesharing/ Tue, 25 Feb 2014 12:56:25 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.8.1 By: J http://submitresponse.co.uk/weblog/2003/03/10/more-on-music-piracy-and-filesharing/comment-page-1/#comment-378 Sun, 01 Aug 2004 18:15:08 +0000 http://mottram.textdriven.com/weblog/?p=310#comment-378 I really agree with your comment, but right now no matter the perspective its ‘against the law’ to buy a CD and make copies for your friends, and some songs you get from certain net sources should not be available for download, meaning your breaking the law as well by dl’ing them, what can you do? your point needs to be enforced and proven to people who arrest kids in the NY hood for file sharing, its a rough approach for someone like that to understand. Its as if your point only gets through to your age group, like me, i’m 19, and I can relate to what your saying.

]]> By: J http://submitresponse.co.uk/weblog/2003/03/10/more-on-music-piracy-and-filesharing/comment-page-1/#comment-377 Sun, 01 Aug 2004 18:14:27 +0000 http://mottram.textdriven.com/weblog/?p=310#comment-377 I really agree with your comment, but right now no matter the perspective its ‘against the law’ to buy a CD and make copies for your friends, and some songs you get from certain net sources should not be available for download, meaning your breaking the law as well by dl’ing them, what can you do? your point needs to be enforced and proven to people who arrest kids in the NY hood for file sharing, its a rough approach for someone like that to understand. Its as if your point only gets through to your age group, like me, i’m 19, and I can relate to what your saying.

]]> By: james kallend http://submitresponse.co.uk/weblog/2003/03/10/more-on-music-piracy-and-filesharing/comment-page-1/#comment-376 Thu, 01 May 2003 06:37:44 +0000 http://mottram.textdriven.com/weblog/?p=310#comment-376 A NOTE FROM A CONCERNED YOUNGSTER:
alright… it’s like this…
i dont know where to begin.
alright - i lived in an apartment that had a computer with over a thoussand mp3s downloaded from various fileshare sites. we loved it. we shared it. i bet that if you look at the bands we had downloaded… who in almost all cases were NOT well supported by the oh-so-important-music-industry… underground bands… indie stuff… no-one that would EVER show their face on popular radio or eMpTyV. i bet if you asked ANY of the bands we fileshared, they would say they were all FOR the idea. I myself play in a gigging rock band and the idea that someone wanted to download my track from someone else is flattering and cool to me… if enough people hear it without paying the RIDICULOUS price that the ‘music industry’ charges (I KNOW FROM EXPERIENCE HOW MUCH THOSE CDs ACTUALLY COST TO PRODUCE) then so much the better. more chance of people showing at our gigs.
FACT: the money made by CD sales for the ‘intellectual property’ that logically belongs to the creators of said ‘property’ (i.e. the BANDS) goes more to a slick consumer-oriented bunch of musically-talentless buisnessmen and marketing experts. Most money that the BANDS make… especially the ones who arent just corporate constructs from the getgo… comes from playing shows and touring… which can only be done with publicity. filesharing is a free way to get that publicity without selling your soul to some contract to this leech that calls itself the “music industry”. The “music industry” doesnt consider that isolated and individual bands in the thousands and proabably the tens of thousands benefit from this format… at the bottom of the issue… the music industry is worried that it will lose its stranglehold on public taste and that people will start to hear alternatives to the industry ordained pop-stars and MIGHT JUST LIKE THE OTHER STUFF BETTER rather than just go after the market-research-results the ‘industry’ vomits out every few months under the guise of music.
The REAL Music Industry is a bunch of musicians in basements and garages and home studios and wherever else playing gigs for small crowds every week at local clubs and doing it because they love it. and probably contains very few lawyers.
Wouldnt it be nice if a band could make it because they were GOOD and people LIKED them instead of because they had the ONLY large scale exposure available… an exposure that is controlled by those very same leeches. I find it funny that the ‘music industry’ contains more non-musicians… businessmen, analysts, lawyers, borings… than it contains musicians. whose industry is it anyway?

bottom line…
no-file-sharing = more monopoly, less origionality, less exposure for new bands, more bands with record-label restrictions. MORE exposure for the already ludicrously rich Canon of our modern music scene, and those occasional ‘scouted’ bands that the industry considers to fit the image and nature of the next market-researched load of dung they want to shovel down people’s throats.

yes filesharing = free exchange of tastes and ideas

too bad if metallica loses a few bux in the exchange. i never downloaded them anyway so it aint my fault.

FACT #2: you cannot stop the internet. it IS above the law. the only thing the law can do about any activity on the internet in the long run is to restrict people’s access to it… gee, that would be great for a ‘free’ country wouldnt it? if filesharing sites are outlawed in the U.S., they’d just be opened in another country where they aren’t outlawed. what are you gonna do, Sue Taiwan under the american legal system over a breach of american law?? somehow i dont think they’d listen. and somehow i dont imagine many countries in the world give two hoots about the american ‘music industry’

-jme

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