Well, I think one thing that applies to all of us small label buying people is
that with Napster gone, exposure for a lot of these smaller labels is also gone.
I'm sure that plenty of people picked up tons of unknown-to-them stuff (and
maybe went and bought it) just because they found it out there on Napster.
It didn't just help the biggies is all I'm saying.
Apart from that, I agree with you completely, Derek.
Later,
Alan
np:SlagBoomVanLoon
Quoting EggyToast <eggy@eggtastic.com>:
quoted 36 lines At 07:11 PM 3/4/2004, you wrote:
> At 07:11 PM 3/4/2004, you wrote:
> >Without a doubt the best article I've seen written on the subject!
> >
> >Protection schemes, the Digital Millennium Copyright Act, and lawsuits
> >against file sharers are not going to save the music business.
> >http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,1759,1537393,00.asp
>
> You know, you'd think that a music lover like myself would be more
> interested in these types of articles. I'm not saying that your post is
> dumb, mind (far from it), but stating my own position. I fiddle around
> with music, I buy music from small labels, I see a few good live
> shows. The "music industry" can't say that I'm not an interested
> party. However, *I* can say that there's nothing that the "industry" does
> that interests me, and the more "culturally aware" it tries to be while
> pulling stunts like the DMCA and RIAA's lawsuits makes me care less and
> less about what they're doing. When I see things like "We've lost XXX
> million dollars due to piracy" I don't think "That's awful" or "Serves them
> right," just "meh, sounds like they need to change their business strategy."
>
> I know that very few on the list really buy much music from the big record
> labels who are the most affected by this, and plenty of them do their part
> to support the small labels, but, man, outside of generic apathy it kind of
> makes me happy to hear about bad news for the big labels. The harder times
> they have, the more likely the little guys will get some exposure. When
> you're losing however many millions of dollars, you shouldn't be able to
> buy up and manufacture that many bands.
>
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>
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