The Boondocks on the Riaa and File Sharing.
Posted on November 22, 2008
Those of you who read this blog regularly know I’m a big supporter of open-source and filesharing, including sharing of music. The fact that the RIAA had the balls to claim they’re suing people to “protect” artists – when everybody who knows a damn thing about the industry knows it’s really about making it more difficult for independent artists to get heard – leaves me livid. And the fact that they continue to get away with it burns me even more.
Fortunately, I’m not the only one who feels that way.
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Courtney Love on File Sharing
Posted on July 14, 2008
I suddenly find myself with a new respect for Courtney Love:
Today I want to talk about piracy and music. What is piracy? Piracy is the act of stealing an artist’s work without any intention of paying for it.
I’m not talking about Napster-type software.
I’m talking about major label recording contracts.
It’s the text from a speech she gave a while back, i don’t know how i missed this at the time. Some of her info is a bit dated – high quality mp3′s actually sound pretty good and nobody uses napster any more – but the basic points she makes about the music industry and the people who run it are solid.
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pirates of the world unite!
Posted on July 12, 2007
check this out:
[google -166095432964105847 Good Copy, Bad Copy]
my thoughts on the matter? I’m wary of the “universal license” or the “blanket license” that so many of the pro-downloading industry-type people seem to advocate because, as an independent artist whose music is distributed over the internet, people would be forced to pay the record companies that i hate for the right to download my music and I would never see a penny of that money unless i came to some sort of arrangement with the record companies – something i have no desire to do. Frankly, i don’t want to be selling my music at all, I want to abolish capitalism. I ask people who enjoy my music to support it financially because I’m fucking poor, I need money to pay my rent, and it costs me money to make the music in the first place. Not like I’m making much money off it, I get maybe one donation for every thousand or so downloads, but at least no one can accuse me of “selling out” or losing sight of why I started making music in the first place…
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