"Then your eyes aren't open to the vast amount of commentary by musicians that report they and others like them are being harmed by illegal downloading."
1: I would like to see the studies and numbers that back up their claims. Not the debunked RIAA stuff that they bought into because the think RIAA is helping them fight piracy.
2: and this is important, your musicians need to come to terms with the culture of sharing that has become prevalent in today's society. Even if you got all your wishes and shut down all unauthorized online transfers of music it would still continue and it would be on the same scale as it is now they would just do it differently.
People share music because they like it.
If they like it enough they support the artist.
When I was young I had albums. I wouldn't buy the ones my friends had because we would share them, I'd take 5 to a friend's house and bring back 5 of his. That way we had 10 albums to enjoy. Digital changed that only because now I don't have to leave the 5 albums at his house I just give him the file. If we like the music we buy more but still not what the other bought. When the artist comes to town we go to the concert and buy an overpriced shirt and program. If the artist is on guitar hero we buy the game because of that artist.
Musician as a career is dead. You need to become an entertainer or a performer, and I strongly suggest you take some business classes so you can learn how to manage your success.
Things change...and they are changing fast, please try to stay current.
So Tyler Clementi kills himself and it is ok to ruin Dharun Ravi's life.
But if overaggressive copyright cause someone to kill themselves by consuming copious amounts of heroin, then his problem is he was suicidal and the copyright hammer that trashed his reputation has nothing to do with it.
well maybe its the difference between the US and Austraila because otherwise it makes no sense to me.
Either messing with someone is ok period or messing with them and causing them to commit suicide is wrong, whether they are gay, or an artist or any other classification or label that society wants to apply, is irrelevant.
"Government attorneys also are criticizing what they said were early estimates by the Massachusetts-based company that its New York plant was worth $68 million and its so-called “flywheel intellectual property” held a value of $28 million to $47 million."
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Reminds me of an analysis of a software program I once heard,
"Whoever wrote this was a great programmer but failed at being a human being"
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1: I would like to see the studies and numbers that back up their claims. Not the debunked RIAA stuff that they bought into because the think RIAA is helping them fight piracy.
2: and this is important, your musicians need to come to terms with the culture of sharing that has become prevalent in today's society. Even if you got all your wishes and shut down all unauthorized online transfers of music it would still continue and it would be on the same scale as it is now they would just do it differently.
People share music because they like it.
If they like it enough they support the artist.
When I was young I had albums. I wouldn't buy the ones my friends had because we would share them, I'd take 5 to a friend's house and bring back 5 of his. That way we had 10 albums to enjoy. Digital changed that only because now I don't have to leave the 5 albums at his house I just give him the file. If we like the music we buy more but still not what the other bought. When the artist comes to town we go to the concert and buy an overpriced shirt and program. If the artist is on guitar hero we buy the game because of that artist.
Musician as a career is dead. You need to become an entertainer or a performer, and I strongly suggest you take some business classes so you can learn how to manage your success.
Things change...and they are changing fast, please try to stay current.
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Re: Response to: Anonymous Coward on Apr 20th, 2012 @ 6:41pm
Perhaps the organizations should rethink their behaviors.
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Wait I've got it!!
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But if overaggressive copyright cause someone to kill themselves by consuming copious amounts of heroin, then his problem is he was suicidal and the copyright hammer that trashed his reputation has nothing to do with it.
well maybe its the difference between the US and Austraila because otherwise it makes no sense to me.
Either messing with someone is ok period or messing with them and causing them to commit suicide is wrong, whether they are gay, or an artist or any other classification or label that society wants to apply, is irrelevant.
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IP will save the US
"Government attorneys also are criticizing what they said were early estimates by the Massachusetts-based company that its New York plant was worth $68 million and its so-called “flywheel intellectual property” held a value of $28 million to $47 million."
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