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Originally Posted by gideongallery
who says you have too, if you don't have to give away 90% of the money, you can be 1/10 as big and make the same money.
That the point. oh and by the way
i already did
maria digby
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So Maria Digby has done a world wide stadium tour? What I mean is a metallica/U2 kind of tour where every night she plays in front of 20-50K fans? Seeing as her first album came out less than a year ago I highly doubt that.
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but the point is that the record label is suing a radio head fan for sharing radio head music claiming he had no authorization and owes them $500 buck a song and radio head is testifying that they want their fans to share their music. how the fuck is that biting the hand that fed them. Should they keep quiet and let their fans get screwed.
and the bands should have a right to stand up and say we want the technology to exist. we are ok with our fans sharing the music. you are lying when you claim they did not have any authorization to share the music.
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This whole argument goes back into the realm of whether torrent downloads of music that you have never purchased are legal or not. You think that if someone goes and downloads the entire Radiohead catalog from a torrent site that it is okay. I don't. It is a fundamental difference that is not worth arguing because we will never change each other's minds.
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doesn't matter that difference is enough to discredit your anology that is why i mentioned it. the fact that they only make money liciencing it to tv shows and commercials still represents the artist competing against themselves for that revenue stream.
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Sure, I will concede that the artist could potentially compete against themselves, but only under certain circumstances. If their old record label owns 100% of the bands publishing then the band could compete against itself, if not they will continue to profit from licensing situations. If that is the case that leaves the label who owns the back catalog left to rely on sales of those albums to make money and as I stated before many people will just download them and not buy them.
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well i fall into the new breed of music consumers who find music using the torrents
i happen to live in canada where we have a piracy tax and the supreme court has recognized that cede tax represents the consideration in a standard contract (offer acceptance and consideration) so my actions are in fact licienced.
Right now that piracy tax screws independent musicans because if they buy a cd to record their own music to sell at the local concert halls they have to pay a tax that goes to the CRIA to compensate establish studio artist like britney spears.
I don't listen to the radio, i don't watch mtv i simply download a song listen to it and toss it if i don't like it.
Torrents are my radio.
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I won't argue the points of a piracy tax because I don't know much about it.
I will say that you are someone that is non-typical when it comes to music. There are always people who scour the landscape for new music. That has never changed. The internet makes that scouring different (and in some ways easier) so people like you (and myself to some extent) who like discovering new bands and don't mind searching now have more access to artists they may have otherwise never been able to find. That is all fine and great, but I don't think any time in the near future that is going to be the norm. As I said in another post music for most is a leisure activity and they spend very little time and effort into finding it. For some acts that is going to be just great. They didn't care about being big famous bands, they just want to make a little money and lay some music, but for others it just isn't going to be enough.