hi all,
i didn#t follow the list's discussion on EFA's bankruptcy before, so please
excuse me for just flying in like that:
As a (sort of non-IDM, but what the heck) musician, i am dealing with
labels, which are affected fatally by this bankruptcy. EFA was the biggest
independent music distribution in Germany, Swiss and Austria i believe.
To my knowledge EFA has tried up to the last minute to pay at least part of
the depts back to their clients, the labels, many of which are very small
and will probably simply die still, from the remaining financial loss thru
this bankruptcy.
This is fact now, but i can#t help thinking about the reasons for this
desaster, of course. After two weeks of discussing this with friends and
affected musicians, labelmates etc there#s one major issue, that seems to
come up oftenly: the ethics of filesharing.
filesharing is, to anyone else but major label employees ;-), the most
wonderful way to spread young, new music as wide as possible. almost
everyone involved is benefitting from it, peopel can find new music easily
and listen to it without being faked into shiny high prized meaningless
mainstream boredom again. and young artists can travel and have an audience
anywhere without ever having to think about the expenses of a promotion
campaign in printed medie, tv or cinemas. i personally benefitted from that
aswell.
still there is an issue, that arose out of this great nonmaterial freedom of
music/culture exchange, and it might even be, that this issue is most
obvious in central europe, which has been traditionally flooded with non
localized product for quite a bit.
it seems, that with all the sharing of everything (which of course strongly
inclines the refusal of high budget plastic product campaigns - yeah! let
them go under!!) people stooped thinking about labels and musicians needing
a certain minimum to keep on working. it seems that it might be time to get
to an outspoken ethics of filesharing, an overthinking of whom do i want to
support, when and why do i share and whom do i want to show my refusal.
certainly it makes sense to share robin williams albums ;-) - but does it
make sense to share to the max - for instance - low res albums, without
having the slightest will to at least sort of donate what we have to a small
artist like him? luckily i meet more and more people who are willing to
support their own unkown artists. so it seems that there might be a time of
conciously wanted balance comin gup. at least i hope so.
correct me and discuss me, please - i#d be very interested in list members'
thoughts about this.
jayrope | berlin
On 3/7/04 21:25 PM, "idm-digest-help@hyperreal.org" wrote:
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> RE: [idm] EFA files for bankruptcy
Best greets from Berlin!
jayrope
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