At 07:11 PM 3/4/2004, you wrote:
quoted 5 lines Without a doubt the best article I've seen written on the subject!
>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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