Musicians sign motion to push for restricted bandwidth for downloaders
Fri 25 Sep, 2009
Why is there the assumption that because some musicians are rich that all of them are? What about the session musicians that survive on royalties? Yes, Keane, etc, may have put their names to this, but over the years on Motown, Chess, Stax etc there were performers who got paid a daily rate, and still get by on the on-going royalties. Are you really saying that these people deserve for money to be taken away from them? In a world where spotify, last fm etc exist there is no justification for file-sharing. Personally I couldn't give a toss if people rip Keane CDs for everyone in the street. However there are professional musicians who depend on the money they make. Although it's not directly related to file-sharing, check out this article on music copywrite:http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/2009/sep/24/music-copyright-ronald-prenticePeople like this don't deserve to have some grubby bunch of spoilt indie kids stealing from them as they grow old. They might not be at the forefront of this debate, but the British music scene was built on the work of these people. In the good old days (pre 5 years ago) people bought music they liked. If you can't afford 79p for a track, stream it. Your options are much wider now than they ever have been for accessing music, yet people still feel the need to steal it. There should be a constructive debate on how to manage this, but as long as people feel it is life-long right (which has only just come into existence) to free music, this can never be tackled.
Sat 26 Sep, 2009
Awesome - another "Home Taping is Killing Music" comment. What a brilliant way to display utter ignorance of the reality of the situation. There is a massive difference between home taping and illegal downloading. Firstly, home taping involved going out and buying the records, and then the tapes to go with them. You could then only copy the music for as many people as you could afford tapes for, and you would generally only give these tapes to friends. With file sharing you are inviting millions of strangers access to music, for the price of the broadband they are already paying for. You don't even need to buy an album in order to have thousands of LPs which you then share. The economics and the scale are completely different. If you want to make a useful contribution to the debate, please do. Otherwise, do shut up and go and play with your toys in your bedroom while the grown-ups have a conversation.
Fri 25 Sep, 2009
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