Re: [newbie] more BS from RIAA: Music Labels Plant Online Decoys, Mull Lawsuits

2002-07-07 Thread Derek Jennings
Here is the site to assuage guilt http://www.fairtunes.com/functions/mlmain.php derek here is that site On Sunday 07 Jul 2002 7:41 pm, Roger Sherman wrote: On Fri, 5 Jul 2002, shane wrote: it is funny, i buy music the same way i buy software. i get it free, and if i think it i pay for

Re: [newbie] more BS from RIAA: Music Labels Plant Online Decoys,Mull Lawsuits

2002-07-07 Thread robin
Derek Jennings wrote: Here is the site to assuage guilt http://www.fairtunes.com/functions/mlmain.php I tried this site, and after wandering around deciding which artists to support (Cassandra Complex, Sheila Chandra and the Cocteau twins, if anyone's interested) and filling in my credit

Re: [newbie] more BS from RIAA: Music Labels Plant Online Decoys,Mull Lawsuits

2002-07-05 Thread Jure Repinc
Sevatio wrote: Check out this story: http://www.reuters.com/news_article.jhtml?type=internetnewsStoryID=1168474 Why do they even try to stop this. Can't they see it can't be stopped? The future is in sharing information and nothing can be done to make it different. RIAA and the like are just

Re: [newbie] more BS from RIAA: Music Labels Plant Online Decoys, Mull Lawsuits

2002-07-05 Thread Todd Slater
On Fri, Jul 05, 2002 at 11:34:10AM -0700, Sevatio wrote: Check out this story: http://www.reuters.com/news_article.jhtml?type=internetnewsStoryID=1168474 While I'm all for sharing and sticking it to the RIAA, MPAA, and the man, I tend to side with the artist on this issue. It would be nice to

Re: [newbie] more BS from RIAA: Music Labels Plant Online Decoys, Mull Lawsuits

2002-07-05 Thread Alastair Scott
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Friday 05 July 2002 8:13 pm, Todd Slater wrote: While I'm all for sharing and sticking it to the RIAA, MPAA, and the man, I tend to side with the artist on this issue. It would be nice to see a distribution system in which the artist could

Re: [newbie] more BS from RIAA: Music Labels Plant Online Decoys, Mull Lawsuits

2002-07-05 Thread Josef Lowder
You're absolutely right, Todd. Everyone deserves to be reasonably compensated for the creative and productive value-added work that they do. Sadly, there seem to be three extremes that get in the way: 1) Greed -- some (like monopolistic, anti-trustworthy Microsoft and grossly over-paid

Re: [newbie] more BS from RIAA: Music Labels Plant Online Decoys, Mull Lawsuits

2002-07-05 Thread Bill Davidson
On Fri, 5 Jul 2002 15:13:55 -0400 Todd Slater [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, Jul 05, 2002 at 11:34:10AM -0700, Sevatio wrote: Check out this story: http://www.reuters.com/news_article.jhtml?type=internetnewsStoryID=1168474 While I'm all for sharing and sticking it to the RIAA, MPAA,

Re: [newbie] more BS from RIAA: Music Labels Plant Online Decoys, Mull Lawsuits

2002-07-05 Thread Todd Slater
On Fri, 5 Jul 2002 18:02:26 -0400 Bill Davidson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, 5 Jul 2002 15:13:55 -0400 Todd Slater [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, Jul 05, 2002 at 11:34:10AM -0700, Sevatio wrote: Check out this story:

Re: [newbie] more BS from RIAA: Music Labels Plant Online Decoys,Mull Lawsuits

2002-07-05 Thread Sevatio
If you really want the artists to reap the fruits of their labour, you should their CD *directly* from them. Here's the not well known the reason... The typical top-40 artist earns only 70 cents per CD sale. Yes, 70 cents! Of that 70 cents, they have to pay the studio and promo costs. This