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Music label boss slams RIAA suits
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article published on 21 August, 2006
Terry McBride, the CEO of Canadian record label Nettwerk Music believes that the recording industry's continued litigation against P2P filesharers are hurting musicians and the music business in general.
Speaking at the first-ever Bandwidth Music and Technology Conference, McBride called on the major labels to cease lawsuits against individuals. "[The major labels] are using fear as a ... [ read the full article ]
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21. August 2006 @ 11:58 |
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yes, someone on the outside of computers understands that the RIAA is only making p2p stronger
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Letukka
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21. August 2006 @ 13:25 |
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Good speech from Mr. McBride.
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GrayArea
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21. August 2006 @ 14:11 |
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This guy makes some sense. The majors will fight Snocap more viciously than they are now fighting P2P. I mean really, a lawful way to completely cut the labels out of the picture? They will battle that one to their dying breath (hopefully).
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hermes_vb
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21. August 2006 @ 15:14 |
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I'd pay 50 cents a song or even the 99 cents Apple charges if they had no DRM.
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CPUWiZ
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21. August 2006 @ 21:36 |
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This is INCREDIBLE.. wonder how long it will take before this guy sleeps with the fishes.. RIAA will see this as betrayal by one of their own.
I am sick of DRM.. They want revenue for their 'artistic' effort, fine. They have no right to say how I 'appreciate' their work! Let them all go down the bowl like, who was that chick that had the anti-CD-Rom Audio CD?.. EXactly!
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flyingv
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21. August 2006 @ 21:38 |
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I don't think that they (the songs) are worth that much. If I have to go through all the trouble of going thru the download process. Maybe 25 cents a song, but that's all I'd pay to make it all "Legal". And as far as the DRM, that can easily be taken care of!!!
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johnodd4
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21. August 2006 @ 23:36 |
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finally someone who understands what is going on i would be happy if somebody was doing a song by song service instead of a album by album service and if you charge 49 to even 25 cents per song you would have thousand of artists that would be happy because if the service didn't allow downloading of the entire album you would have people interrested in placing individual songs on the service for download then this still makes people go out and purchase the album and still keeps the music bussiness going
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22. August 2006 @ 09:16 |
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i like him
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22. August 2006 @ 09:46 |
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Good on him. A very good speech indeed, and the fact that he himself is a music label boss only heightens his argument. I think eventually..eventually we will see the end of these lawsuits..
-Mike
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lxfactor
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22. August 2006 @ 10:18 |
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Another Point for Music Fans.. =]
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BludRayne
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22. August 2006 @ 12:19 |
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The most enlightened person in the music business. Bravo!
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tnarulz
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22. August 2006 @ 12:59 |
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This guy is thinking with his brain, if only there were more reasonable people like him in the music industry, we wouldn't need p2p.
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22. August 2006 @ 14:32 |
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Damn.....the only coment I can think of is the RIAA will sue him for slander 0-o
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Hate19
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22. August 2006 @ 20:06 |
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"you should never tell the consumer how to consume your music. You should make it available wherever they want. I don't want to dictate how people buy our music."
That's very well said indeed.
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23. August 2006 @ 05:17 |
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This guy kicks ?ss, I like him
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24. August 2006 @ 03:00 |
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Nice speech and some good points there...I wonder how the RIAA will respond...most likey just ignore it
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25. August 2006 @ 10:06 |
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IT's going to be sometime before everyone will see from this guy's point of view. Thier greed is what blind folds them. This guy is just waking up to smell the coffee. I'm always going to dl for free. But 25cents or 50 for a song is not bad.
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25. August 2006 @ 11:48 |
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The RIAA will probably say something along these lines:
"We have no comment on the speech by Mr McBride. However weare issueing writs and subpeonas in District court against Mr Mcbride for illegaly preventing us from bleeding the public music user dry and sending them into bankruptcy for disseminating music into the public domain"
I say we need more Mr McBride's in the music industry and less RIAA
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Wild9
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25. August 2006 @ 14:05 |
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When big business will hire and fire at the drop of a hat, denying workers rights and wages..when big business has such immense political sway..you ask me if I think people have respect for these so-called pillars of the (business) community.
No, I don't think they do.
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7Phoenix
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26. August 2006 @ 03:28 |
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I love it when he stated "Avril or any of my artists would never sue a fan" True artist would never do that, since we are the ones who put them there. The RIAA dont represent the artist at all, only the music label and the greedy owners of it.
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cdd1234
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28. August 2006 @ 02:16 |
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My hats off to the guy !!
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voxaryx
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28. August 2006 @ 11:19 |
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Emusic.com! 25 cents a song! No DRM! Totally legit!
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Gvaz
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28. August 2006 @ 16:19 |
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holy heck, i just made a new best friend :D
hats off to mr.mcbride. i agree $1 a song is silly. $25 a song, with at LEAST 75% of that going to the artists is great. what do the labels need anyways? they are there to MARKET it to us. and the internet is bleeding that dry since anyone intellegent will know how to find bands.
plus doing what mr.mcbride said wont elliminate it. but it will go back to the way it used to be.
"hey man? have you heard this band?" *hands the cd over*
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"dude this cd kicks butt!" *goes to buy other cds by them, and tells all his friends who have similar interests*
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26. September 2010 @ 11:39 |
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This guy should pool his money and initiate a hostile takeover of both the RIAA and the MPAA and become president of both companies! lol
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