Hollywood vs. the techies

Newark Star Ledger (AP) ^ | 10/20/02 | KEVIN COUGHLIN

[Incorrigible]

''From text to records to audio and video, the personal computer is the tool that lets users access information in all its forms."

Britney Spears wants to teach you about copyright law.

"Would you go into a CD store and steal a CD?" the pop star asks in a TV ad that started airing this month. "It's the same thing, people going into the computers and logging on and stealing our music. It's the exact same thing, so why do it?"

[Incorrigible]

Fair use!

[TransOxus]

Typical liberal response by music companies. They fail to realize that the reason they are losing market is that the state of music is crap nowadays along with the music. Further, radio stations have been taken over by corporations who are restrictive that there is no longer freedom of music. Blame the PC but it looks like high time to break the monopoly of corporation on how they control radio markets. With the Internet, musicians can now control and sell their music instead of through the bloodsucking studio/label corporations. Internet radio once broadband is prevalent should give them outlet to play and market their music.

[Houmatt]

Internet radio once broadband is prevalent should give them outlet to play and market their music.

Uh, you know the RIAA and record companies are trying to destroy Internet radio, right?

[Age of Reason]

Spears is part of a campaign to educate the public on the evils of unfettered access to information in all its (copyrighted) forms.

Just what we need: a lesson in morality from Brittany.

[45semi]

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Article -HERE-

45semi

[Age of Reason]

I wish I could record a day's work and then sell that recording over and over and over to anyone who needed that day's work done for them.

Before geeks invented sound recording, musicians sang for their supper.

Now technology has come full circle, and it's back to singing for their supper--and those pampered, bloated, overpaid Holyweird types are scared stiff they might have to work for a living!

And why not?

Technology has ruined the careers of other blue collar workers--now it's the turn of entertainers, who after all are nothing but another kind of blue collar worker.

[BikerTrash]

Technology has ruined the careers of other blue collar workers--now it's the turn of entertainers, who after all are nothing but another kind of blue collar worker.

Wow! Good way to put it. Hopefully, actors and sports "heros" are next.

[martin_fierro]

"Would you go into a CD store and steal a CD?" the pop star asks in a TV ad that started airing this month. "It's the same thing, people going into the computers and logging on and stealing our music. It's the exact same thing, so why do it?"

Whoops -- I Did It Again! <|:)~

[Sonny M]

I'm waiting for the day when the publishing company's industry will suffer. I believe it is just a matter of time, before you'll see bookstores, there with there own laser printers and binders. You could go in, pick a book, and have it printed and binded in a few minuits, or when E-books will catch on in even more popularoty.

[x]

Given the way the the entertainment industry goes on getting the copyright expiration period extended, it's hard to have much sympathy with them. When I think that they'll still be getting money for Brittany's records long after I am dead (and probably after Brittany's lifestyle catches up with her, too), it's hard not to be cynical.

[Thebaddog]

My opinion is that the music makers should extract a licensing fee from the makers of the software that power the file sharing networks and from the hardware makers who sell the equipment and just call it a day.

Internet radio is a great thing to get info from far away from the radio signal, and it's being destroyed. Some progress and innovation.

[Leto]

There is already a surcharge for blank cd's. The period for copyright of entertainment material should be the same as other intellectual property 17 years.

Why should the patent on a life saving drug be shorter than the ranting of a pop star?

[Thebaddog]

Good idea.

[x]

My opinion is that the music makers should extract a licensing fee from the makers of the software that power the file sharing networks and from the hardware makers who sell the equipment and just call it a day.

Good idea, but they want more than they're likely to get, and they have Congress in their back pocket. Getting money from hardware makers is a clever idea, though. Kids who would never pay upfront for a a peer-to-peer program's access to copyrighted material would not even know they were paying such a hidden charge. And other people who don't hunt out copyrighted material may also contribute when they buy hardware, thus lowering the fee.

But the temptation of charging those who want the music heavily and up front is probably too great for the entertainment industry to resist. It will take a mental revolution to get them to look at things differently.

Internet radio is a great thing to get info from far away from the radio signal, and it's being destroyed. Some progress and innovation.

That's true and it's a pity. So far, though, our American quarrels aren't affecting the development of Internet radio overseas, though that may change if the destructive effort works here.

[Koblenz]

Typical liberal response by music companies.

Property rights typically isn't a liberal issue.

They fail to realize that the reason they are losing market is that the state of music is crap nowadays along with the music.

Maybe, but they can still fight what is theft of their product.

Further, radio stations have been taken over by corporations who are restrictive that there is no longer freedom of music. Blame the PC but it looks like high time to break the monopoly of corporation on how they control radio markets. With the Internet, musicians can now control and sell their music instead of through the bloodsucking studio/label corporations. Internet radio once broadband is prevalent should give them outlet to play and market their music.

An artist is free to sell his or her music to whomever. They can sell it to a small company, or they can sell it to a multinational media company. But like it or not, multinational media companies typically have much better advertising and distribution than small companies. If you don't like the music, or you think it's too expensive, then don't buy it. But don't justify stealing it because it's too expensive. That's never really a good argument.

[Petronski]

The recording industry says I should pay $16. The napsters say I should pay $0. I think the music I want to hear is worth $6.

What am I expected to do?

[Koblenz]

I'm waiting for the day when the publishing company's industry will suffer. I believe it is just a matter of time, before you'll see bookstores, there with there own laser printers and binders. You could go in, pick a book, and have it printed and binded in a few minuits, or when E-books will catch on in even more popularoty.

Publishers perform a fairly valuable service. I know people in the publishing industry, and I've seen some raw manuscripts. Believe me, there's a lot of junk out there that doesn't get published. Sure, there's a lot of published junk, but the unpublished stuff is usually really bad. Publishers sort of act as a gatekeeper.

There are also good books that publishers edit. They make an interesting book more readable.

Finally, publishers market, distribute and promote books. Believe me, this is important.

The instant book thing sounds appealing, and in some cases will be great. But I don't think publishers are going to disappear.

[Sonny M]

You know when I told my mother about what I thougth, she went ballistic. I forgot she used to work in a publishing company as an executive.

[TransOxus]

You don't get the picture or you are typical of those who delude themselves into thinking they are being more conservative than others because they believe in unrestrained capitalism. There is always a balancing point which eventually lurches to the left when it gets too big. Big corporations resemble big governments. The bigger they get, the less freedom and creativity is supported and they eventually stagnate or rely on past glories. It works generally good with commodities but not with everchanging products. The entertainment industry is stagnating which is no surprise as it has been taken over by liberals. Artists and DJs are no longer free to use radio or TV as a medium to promote their music because everything is now prepackaged and marketed according to big corporations who think they know better. This was not so in the past as the freedom and outlets to express yourself existed - look at prevalent PC behavior is in big cities and big corporations. The only reason music companies have lasted this long is due to the changes in the media (LPs/reel to reel to casettes/VCRs to CDs/DVDs, etc.)which allows them to resell their back catalogue at total profit, not because of musical creativity which is diminishing since the 90s.