Happy New Year--I hope you have done any music file sharing

[12voltman59]

The good folks at the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) has been going after those who had done P2P music file sharing--now they are going to try to stop us from burning your CDs to your computer and turning them to MP3 files and using them on your IPods and MP3 Players---

Here is a link on they way the stuffed suits at the RIAA take people to court:

http://digitalmusic.weblogsinc.com/2006/08/07/the-riaa-vs-john-doe-a-laypersons-guide-to-filesharing-lawsui/

Here is the story about their moves to deny people the right to burn CD's--at least don't let them know you do if you share the files with others---

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/12/28/AR2007122800693.html?hpid=topnews

These guys are kinda of like the mob--they always want their cut.

If they really did act in the best interests of the musical artists who make the music they sell--I would not have as much problem with them--but they have been screwing the musicians since the earliest days of the industry.

[Skater Boy]

Yeah, its already possible to stop people uploading CDs to computers or MP3 players. I already have 2 CDs that are "copy-protected" and when inserted into a computer disc drive, they will ONLY play using the accompanying software (as opposed to the compuer's software), and they don't even register on MP3 management softwares like itunes.

Its really annoying. I can forgive the duplication aspect of it all, but not allowing them to be used on MP3 players is clearly gonna be controversial.

Btw... if you wanna avoid "copyright protected" CDs, just download the albums from the internet. Although I'm sure they'll probably think of a way to spoil that one too...

[DiamondDog]

It will never be stopped.

Like how they had a new way of copy protecting CDs/DVDs a few years ago and you could just black out the copy protection with magic marker and then copy the CD/DVD!

Also there are countless programs that are written so you can easily get past that stuff.

[Uneedhands]

They will fail. Its a matter of time. We have thousands of years of momentum behind our need for culture. I heard on CBC last year that the 3 or 4 major labels were giving up the file sharing eradication campaigne and were considering providing the entire catalogue free in mp3 format in order to placate the masses and get more people out to the shows, I don't know if it happened, or if they're still considering it. It almost gave me a spark of hope for the endangered human feces. Doesn't really matter to me, I don't listen to music made by corporate whore-puppets anyway. If that new technology you mentioned starts to effect my subculture there will be war. That is a threat! I just don't think it will fly anyway. too much progress has been made with copyright laws over the past 2 decades (yet not enough) to go backwards like that. cd's and mp3's are just another format to squabble over just like cassettes. This was happening in the 80's. In those days most of my music was recorded onto blank cassettes, I still have a couple hundred but I never use them now. Fuck I still buy and listen to Vinyl! ...and make mp3's out of them. They are mine. I bought them. They're not for sale. It's my right! All Mp3's should be free...they are! Just do it. I can hear the difference between an mp3 and the original, someone who wants a higher quality library complete with artwork, lyric sheets, memories of the show you picked it up from, and maybe an autograph or something, will pay for a hard copy, and some of us prefer vinyl.

[ziggybabie]

They will fail......

[Tingly_Tickles]

Can tell you they have already failed where others thought they could win and as far as
copy protected media that's just not real anymore because once some company tries
to protect it someone is trying to steal it.

Take blu-ray for example it's already been cracked for a while now.

[chulainn2]

Shakespeare was right, ' kill all the lawyers'
I have bought music from Itunes but I noticed that if I burn more than 2 copies from a playlist from Itunes, I get a pop up warning about illegal distribusion. I think I might copy them to Windows Media player. Would not surprise me if everytime this notice appears on my end, there is a heads-up sent elsewhere.
Something also weird happened. I turned on my I-Tunes recently and my music was deleted. Luckily when I download, I burn to cds as back up, so I didnt lose more than a half a dozen songs. But it was strange. And I had probably 100 hrs of music in my library all gone the next morning since the last time I opened Itunes. Itunes is my default music player so it is on a lot.
Let me know if this has happened to you also. I have been told that this can happen when downloading new version of Itunes. But that was not the case here.
Most of my loaded ipod music is from legal purchased cd's. So I guess that is considered illegal reproduction. The cocksuckers can have my pod when they pry it from my dead hands.

[IanGray]

I have heard the bleating of organizations like RIAA off and on for years about how they are being ripped off by bootleggers or whatever you wish to call them. It is funny how they shout loudest when there is a down turn in sales of CDs, records etc. Trying to to impose restrictions on something as dynamic as the internet is foolish, short-sighted and doomed to failure. I have seen the Music Industry change over the years from their control of the Media,artists, studios and distribution. The cost of all this was beyond the budget of many struggling musicians. With the developing of the internet and computer recording software the cost of producing,promoting and distributing music has plummeted. It is now possible to do without the big boys. My advice to the music moguls is to embrace the internet and desist in any attempts to hinder its free flowing nature. as a musician who first got into music in 1967, I am enthusiastic about the development of new technology that has and will continue to liberate musicians from the shackles of the music Industry. Keep on sharing your music it will enrich everyones life.

[Azrael]

I do both. In damn near everything :bigrin:
I have many gigs of music, some ripped from cds I own, some napsterized WAY back in the day. I also buy a lot of cds, yesterday it was AFI's 'Shut your mouth and open your eyes" and 'Life is a grave and I dig it!' by Nekromantix.
But, I prefer my vinyl over all.
I generally buy music cuz I'm a completionist.