> Look - if the Recording Industry doesn't want people to steal their > music (or share it) then:
As I would say - No humming - BMI might be listening. BMI is kinda similar to RIAA here in the states - only they sue Girl Scouts for singling allegedly copyrighted songs (public performance) and have even been known to sue doctors playing CDs in operating rooms... This is the mentaility of a sue-happy environment -- recently Court TV anchors would not sing "Happy Birthday" because they thought they might be sued (allegedly that's a copyrighted song -- you see song credits in movies for it, despite that it's based on a plagiarized tune, and all the people did was to change the words... and it took *two* people to come up with those words!!! Shouldn't creativity matter whether or not one should consider this stuff to be copyrightable? I mean, a bunch of n***gg*** playing with a turntable and going 'you go girl' isn't music, but you'll be sued if you try and swap their songs. Compared to most mainstream classical music, most popular music is about as creative as the aforementioned "happy birthday to you". Fuck copyright protection.. > > 1.) Stop playing it on the radio - it can be copied from there to tape > or captured to a computer The US Home Recording act expressly permits non-commercial recording of this type. It also permits timeshifting (despite the networks' insistence that anyone with more than one blank tape in their possession is breaking the law), taping CDs or vinyl for use in the car (record executives would allege that we're supposed to buy separate copies for the car). Thank g-d that they haven't discovered computer software- style licensing, otherwise we would be paying per-seat, multiple CDs, for each player you use the CD on. > > 3.) Lower prices internationally. If you lower the prices, then it would be an incentive to buy more CDs perhaps. Most CDs are *way* overpriced. I can burn a CD for about 15 cents. It's cheaper now to make CDs than it ever has been -- and con- sequently, there's never been a time in the history of recording when it has been so cheap and easy to make a copy of a record. I mean, in times past, you'd have to have a lathe and other capital equipment. Not too long ago, a large capital investment would be required to make CDs -- but no longer. That's what is scaring the shit out of the record executives, IMHO. You don't even have to wait and listen to the music on the radio, just tune to live365.com :). How about selling commercial time in the middle of the CDs? Most commercial CDs have much wasted space; you could insert commercials in tracks and then that would drive down the price and then the record execs wouldn't care - they could sell advertising based on the number of potential listeners, pirates included :). > stephen kuhn - owner > ============================== > illawarra computer services > a kuhn media australia company PS. Usenet is next door to kazaa. RIAA will take years to figure that out ------------------------------------------------------------------------ David E. Fox Thanks for letting me [EMAIL PROTECTED] change magnetic patterns [EMAIL PROTECTED] on your hard disk. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- : http://kma.0catch.com
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