i thought i would never write again on the subject here, but this post just annoyed me too much:
[qoute]Some system of copyright protection is essential ... [but] The balance is hard to call, but I would fear that use of DRM (which strongly favours the copyright holder) would push the balance towards highly marketed artists, which would certainly not be a result I personally would like to see.> > > My explanations of how not selling music creates a media like world of > live TV / big concert / t-shirt sales that hits small artists but which > the big names can live with has not beeen enough. > > Neither has the last article from the guardian about the demise of the > small artist... > > So here is yet another... > > http://blogs.guardian.co.uk/music/2007/04/has_illegal_downloading_gone_t.html > > Here is an extract from it: > > Last week, I received a promotional CD of Ma Fleur, the new album by > Cinematic Orchestra, a group on the independent label Ninja Tune. > Before I'd even played it (it's very good by the way), I was hooked by > the blurb on the sleeve. > > Usually, this is the bit of legal boilerplate where the label informs > you that illegal downloading is outright gangsterism and anyone who > practises it will be dragged outside to be shot like a dog, after which > their head will be exhibited on a spike outside the BPI headquarters as > a warning to others. > > But this one is different. "Before you copy, burn or upload these > recordings," it begins, "please take a moment to think about what > you're doing and what you're not doing. You are not 'sticking it to the > man'. You are not 'striking a blow against outdated copyright laws'. You > are not 'liberating content from the corporations'. Nor are you > 'promoting our records for us'. You are making it much harder for the > musicians in Cinematic Orchestra to make anything like a living wage > for creating the music which is good enough to give to friends and > associates." > > ...justifications ring hollow, especially when it comes to independent > artists... Filesharing raises the artist's profile? True, it can stoke > demand for live shows, and for licensing to TV, movies and advertisers, > but word-of-mouth promotion doesn't work if you're giving someone an > album instead of just telling them about it. According to Ninja Tune's > Will Ashon, who wrote the Ma Fleur text, the difference between an > independent album losing money and breaking even can be as little as > 1000 copies. > > I'll leave the last word to Ninja Tune: "By all means pirate the latest > corporate spew from major label central. But don't pretend it's the same > thing as copying this, because one day, when we're all gone and all > that's left is two or three giant multinational conglomerates putting > out lowest-common-denominator bollocks, you'll wish you hadn't." -- willyhoops ------------------------------------------------------------------------ willyhoops's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=10563 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=34928 _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/audiophiles
