Leave it to the greedy music industry to dictate what technology can be
used to distribute sound recordings.
What is being overlooked here is that MP3s offer small-time, low budget
artists the ability to be heard by many people through distribution on the
Internet.
RIAA wants proprietary, encrypted technologies to be used on all on-line
music recordings--thereby locking the smaller artist out from being able
to distribute their music online.
The ridiculousness of this ban comes to light when you realize that a
portable laptop or even a handheld computing device that can play back
MP3 files does not violate any laws, yet is nearly identical to the
Diamond player.
What really pisses me off is that most of the music that we all listen to
comes from small labels that are not represented at all by the RIAA.
Same goes for organizations such as BMI and ASCAP.
The RIAA, BMI, and ASCAP were created for the greedy by the greedy and
designed to screw the little guy.
-Jeremy
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On Mon, 19 Oct 1998, Guy Elden, Jr. wrote:
quoted 7 lines Take note MP3 traderz, you're going to go to jail! =:^p
> Take note MP3 traderz, you're going to go to jail! =:^p
>
> http://www.cnn.com/TECH/computing/9810/19/internet.music.ap/
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> jr
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