Just chanced upon Puthali’s take on Apple and DRM. A good read, as most of us are as much confused as the next person on what’s a typical solution. We don’t wanna rip the musicians out and definitely want them to continue making good stuff by supporting em in any way we can, don’t we? But it’s also a fact, the more the industry insists on putting restriction on what we do with the stuff we paid for, the more we turn to alternatives. Carla Schroder in her article Bah humbug commercial radio, hurrah for Internet radio summed it up as following…
These are very strange times we live in, where the big entertainment companies treat us like enemies for wanting to be their customers, and god forbid they should deliver something we actually want. Hurrah for the Internet, the great leveler. Buhbye big globalcorps, you’re on the path to becoming big globalcorpses, and I am not sorry.
A typical Schroder article full of word play and good humor. Am I the only one who thinks it’s funny with MPAA and RIAA joining hands and launching a Web site to project themselves in short as MAFIAA? So, they have an inkling that people consider their motives to the likes of mafias? Then I must say, good job folks over at both the institutions!
Years ago, when I discovered the deal with Creative Commons after reading Niyam Bhushan’s column in LFY mentioning the same, I chanced upon an interview on the site featuring Scott Andrew. I like his stuff. Have downloaded all of his songs from his site, and havent paid him any cash in exchange for it. Maybe I’ll buy his next album, maybe not. But I sure have nagged Robin to death, who also lives in the Seattle area, to check Scott out time and again.
Anyway, what Scott wrote soon after in a blog entry here (googled it out while commenting on Puthali’s entry, and thus read it again today after a couple of years) made a lot of sense from an indipendent musicians’ perspective. But what about the major label artists, who for a change make good music or the old ones whose stuff are owned by major lables, and they dont even care releasing 90% of the stuff here? File sharing at least makes those stuff accissible and I say the lables should shut up until they make all the stuff we need available in a city we live in, wherever it is. What’s worse for an artist: people not discovering him/her ever cuz the TV/radio never broadcast their stuff or getting it from p2p and then goin all ga ga if we happen to like what we’re hearing? The bad part is both ways artists dont get a penny for their work, however, while in the former case we dont even know they exist, in the later case we like their stuff. Maybe someday the mainstream musicians would like to answear that. Adios!!
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