Comments on: College P2P use on the decline?

Music industry and university leaders say authorized services and lawsuits are helping to stem campus file-swapping.

Less downloading, more CD burning

Sure, downloading by kids has been reduced. Nut CD (and dvd) burning at home is growing wild.

But we have to ask ourselves, why should anyone respect the copyright owners when they are really mostly businesses that connived the creators into giving away their work.

Until people accept that the major beneficiaries of copyrights should be the creator artists and not businesses there will no be the proper respect for the copyrights.

As long as the widespread rumor is that too little of copyright income filters down to the artists there is no valid reason for respecting the copyrights.

Since many artists are incapable of exploting their work and since some creation is too expensive (such as movies) business will alway have a role in the exploitation of art. But the role should be controlled so that income is properly shared with the artists. This control does not exists because the copyright law was made by the businesst lobby.

As an example, my father may have been one of the greatest 20th century composer. The music publishers ran away with the music and my father made no money at all. The rest of the story is here: http://www.gvenegas.com

[cousinkix1953]

Power to Independent Artists

A growing number of musicians are no longer associated with the RIAA's big record companies. Recording their LIVE concerts and burning CDs for their fans is so easy now. Jerry Garcia dreamed of this more than a decade ago and his "Grateful Dead" buddies are doing it now! String Cheese Incident and other emerging bands have jumped on the bandwagon too. No doubt, that the artists are getting a bigger piece of this pie; because their crews are marketing the finished product directly to us. How ironic, that the artists who peddle digital sound board recordings are the least likely to complain about kids downloading inferior compressed MP-3 files on line...

[threedguy]

decline in music

there comes a time in every music downloader's life where they can no longer think of any songs that have yet to be downloaded. they have downloaded every song that they care to download and thus stop the downloading. that, my friends is why there has been a decrease in the downloading of music. there is no more music to download.