| Tako Oda wrote: 'We need to be extremely suspicious of any measure lobbied for by a corporation. They don't give a **** about the consumer or artist. They just want our money.'
Well, this is a measure lobbied for by one, and against by another corporarzion. MP3.com c.s. have opposite financial interest from the recording industry. The question is were our interests are. The recording industry is in this bussiness for the money - as is mp3.com and anybody else. Yet the recording industry has proven since more than hundred years to give us the ability to get to know exellent musicians we would probably not even have heard of otherwise. Besides that is has proven to give many musicians some extra money, which is always welcome. The less profitable this bussiness becomes (the more illegal copies are being made), the more they will concentrate on big and fast profit making activities: recording the **** many people take for music. Tako furthermore wrote: 'All the money they get should be distributed more equitably amongst starving, talented artists everywhere.' That's what they partly do: recording classical music is not very profitable, and profits from selling pop are partly used to enable the continuation of recording classical music. Apart from that: it is a bit naive (but understandable at your age) to tell companies what they should do with their money. Such a thing is only possible in communistic countries. And we know how they have treated human rights, I mean real rights, not the right to steal from a record company. There is however something possible, that more or less does what Tako wants: in Europe several countries have a 'copy-tax', which you pay when you buy audio-cdr's, md's and tapes. This money is divided among performing artists, at least in Holland. Best greetings, Dre |
