lawyers vs listeners
Maybe the recording industry doesn't actually want anybody to listen to music anymore. CBC Radio's program As It Happens had this gem on its website today: NOTE: Starting January 1, 2004, we will no longer be including cuts of music in our Real Audio files of past shows, for copyright reasons. Those little snippets were not going to keep anybody from buying an album, and they might have introduced listeners to new artists.
There's a free-music movement, like the free-software movement. There's a lot of amateurs out here who are just as good as the professionals, and who maybe don't need to make a living from performing. (Not that many of the professionals make that good a living, after the middlemen take their cut.) The RIAA is just pushing the commercial audience/customers away.
There's a free-music movement, like the free-software movement. There's a lot of amateurs out here who are just as good as the professionals, and who maybe don't need to make a living from performing. (Not that many of the professionals make that good a living, after the middlemen take their cut.) The RIAA is just pushing the commercial audience/customers away.