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Making noise at P2P hearings
Reporters crowd around attorneys who argued the case in an impromptu news conference.
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Reporters crowd around attorneys who argued the case in an impromptu news conference.
Credit: Declan McCullagh
Swapping files does not affect these no-name musicians in a negative way. If anything, they get a chance to finally reach a wider audience. Maybe if they supported a little fileswapping and got their music out there then we might actually know who they are.
Musicians are so brainwashed by the Record industry that even when its staring them right in the face, they can't realize that filesharing is the opportunity for them to finally break free of their pimps.
be solved is a technological issue. As long as there are
computers and the internet, file swapping will occur in one or
another... My cable modem just went to 7MB per second xfer
speed...you think I will only be downloading what AOL or
corporate/judicial America says I can download... f ck off!
I'm so incredibly sick of this war. On one side you have the filthy scumbags in the recording industry, who preach the utmost respect for the law when THEIR pocketbook is on the line, but who also hypocritically engage in illegal price-fixing to screw the consumer over. And on the other side, you have whining thieves who ***** incessantly about how they're somehow owed free music, not realizing that the only right choice would be to forego the product entirely.
But still, penalizing the technology itself would be perfectly idiotic.
Second, how many of your recordings have been scooped up on P2P networks?
Third, don't you think the recording industry is screwing you dry already?
- It isn't Fileswapping. Its the Record Companies.
- by killerpenguinz March 31, 2005 12:00 PM PST
- I run a record company, and i can tell you, P2P does not affect our business. In fact, it has increased it. There is no reason for the major labels to complain. They are not losing anything.
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(21 Comments)Artists picketing out in front of the supreme court, you are wasting your time and digging a hole for yourself. The record companies don't pay artist's as it is. What makes you think you suppporting them, will allow them to give you a few more cents for that CD, because they take the bulk of the profits?
its no secret that artist's hardly get paid on CD sales, yet there are exhorburent amounts of money being paid for people for "Royalties" by the radio industry, who is being charged for paying what the industry doesen't want to pay.
These are the same labels, who just got in trouble for holding 300 million from artists. What makes you think for one second they are on your side?
Artists need to rethink their position. P2P gains loyal fans. Fans who go to concerts, fans who buy the merchandise, etc. Even if the majority of your fans download your works, they cant experience the live show online, they cant bootleg the posters, or other merchandise. Maybe artists need to learn that music is an artform, to tax it the way the industry and the government has, is to say that it has a price. Who determines a song is worth 99 cents?
Stop supporting the Major record industry, and start learning its tricks, to learn how to defend yourself, and make money. But demanding royalties from Radio stations is not the answer, after all, they are your primary point of advertising. Without them, you wouldn't sell 99% of the cd's you do now.
Down with the RIAA.