On Mon, 2005-03-28 at 03:10, Christian Einfeldt wrote: > > Of much more important to everyone is personal ownership. People > > think they own that itunes song they purchased, but they don't. > > They are just renting it.
Which is a bit like us saying that if you buy an INGOT certificate and lose it you have to buy another. Ok, it costs a couple of dollars for the official certification process, we have to make the scheme commercially viable (going back to your earlier points) but since the candidate has paid for registration why shouldn't they be free to print as many copies of *their* certificate as they want to? > So the notion that Apple can rent and re-rent the same damn songs > honks me off. It lacks balance between monetizing the distribution > of creativity (musicians gotta eat, too) and sharing culture. > IMHO, Creative Commons, Magnatunes, and MP3tunes achieve a better > balance. I'm writing a set of lesson plans for the Bronze INGOT. It will take me a just a few days. It will be Creative Commons because it will encourage take up of the certification and with an efficient business model we don't have to charge for things that really cost very little to produce and distribute when the whole size of the market is considered. This is why the licensed mode for software is inefficient from the consumers point of view. You get into the situation that large scale customers pay more in license fees than the entire development cost of the product! > Buy them albums, or you're not gonna get any > more music. Bah humbug. How many Elton Johns, Stings or Bon Jovis are there out there and undiscovered? I bet thousands, and these are some of the really talented ones. My kids can do better than a lot of the crap out there promoted by the record companies. So the Emperor really has no clothes. There are oodles of good musicians who do it just for the love of it. It just takes one Internet based distributor to get popular on selling unlimited use for say 10% cost of current albums giving the artist the same return as they get now from the current record companies and watch all the artists flock to the new label. > Some artists will give > their music away for free. Some artists are gonna take the risk > that it makes more sense to side with the big record labels and > take a chance on becoming Metallica millionaires, but most of them > will get ground into dust. Its only a matter of time before an internet distributor has a Metallica on its hands. In fact its likely to be big simply because more people will buy the stuff if its low cost. It could easily become a fashion for young kids. Pirate radio, underground music etc are part of the culture. Goodnight RIAA :-) -- Ian Lynch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ZMS Ltd
