Alright. This will be put into simple terms for the simple minded musicians that are pressing the RIAA to crackdown on P2P users. I hook my radio up to my computer (very simple). I record my favorite congs from the radio onto the computer. (gotta wait for the song the the point is still here). Then I share these songs and put them on cds. The musicians can't wine when I do this because I got it off the radio which has payed for the use of the song... What now, whats your argument?
Also, didnt we learn in 5th grade that once you put something on the table it is no longer truely your onw...Isnt this the same as releasing a song? You should be proud that that many people want to listen to your music...and if your sad about not making money off of your music, go talk to the homeless street musicians who are happy with their $5 a day so that they can eat at night. You have to have the money for your 5 million dollar house that you absolutely can't live without.
Dont get me wrong i love music just not the musicians that want you to pay to listen to their songs.
I good point you bring up there... a contentious one too :)
Quote:Also, didnt we learn in 5th grade that once you put something on the table it is no longer truely your onw...Isnt this the same as releasing a song?
Tell that to the RIAA and they will give you some crap about "radio stations are not allowed to give away music, there are merely only licensed to play it and people who intereact with those radio waves emitted by the station are only licensed to listen to it"
Me dont likes RIAA, I'm sure they could have had their message conveyed better if they hadnt tried to take such a bad-ass gansta approach to antipiracy or something.
believe it or not it is illegal to record off radio! now that sucks! however, if streaming audio on internet radio is not illegal and you dont have to pay for it, then recording off that cant be illegal can it??
Dela - you know damn good and well that they will make it illegal to do anything with music other than sit there and listen quietly to it. soon you prolly wont be able to dance to it because you're dancing the wrong way to it and thats not the way the artist wanted you to dance to it so you'd be breaking yet another stupid law. but, thats why we do what we want anyway, the war will never end.
Legalities aside, the real reason for all the litigatous behaviour is because that overall sales of music are down.
The root of this whole thing is that there isn't enough good/desirable material produced by artists for people to justify spending their limited disposable income on a `album'.
When was the last time you wanted 15 crappy or poorly developed songs to accompany the couple good ones you like on a CD ?
If the music industry wasn't pushing so desperately for releases of `albums' before their time, maybe artists could develop better material and satisfy the listeners to the point that they wouldn't mind buying it.
Personally, it has been more than 10 years since I have heard an `album' with more good tracks than lousy ones.(except for re-releases, live sets, or best-of compilations)
So if everyone wants to share the one hit out of 20 songs I can't blame `em.
