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Piracy is all I seem to be hearing about on the web these days. Record companies suing people left right and centre, entire torrent distribution sites being shut down and what this tells me is that Record Companies are scared. And they should be!
I don't understand why record companies are blaming fans for downloading music for free. If you see a dollar on the pavement do you pick it up? If someone is offering you something for free would you take it? Most of us will say "Yes" without thinking too much about our moral obligations.
Last month the RIAA took down a popular torrent tracker called Oink.cd. I think they have failed to see a golden opportunity in having their music freely distributed amongst music hungry audiophiles at absolutely no cost to them. No advertising, no bandwidth, no hardware. Yes, the users were downloading tracks they should have been paying for but instead of arresting the site owner what would have happened if the RIAA decided instead to negotiate a licensing subscription service to the Oink.CD members for an affordable amount each month?
So here is how I see the current situation on a personal level:
So what if I said to you: Here is my latest release, you can download it from any torrent site legally and all you have to do to license it is visit my website, download a unique license and code, rate the tracks in the release and possibly donate a few dollars if you think it is worthy of your money?
What I am asking is, what if we make a brand new type of music license that meant you could keep our tracks legally if you went to our site and downloaded the license after your download? Comments (2)
Benjamin
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andrew
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The idea is a start but working in big business i believe it will not work. I believe this will not work because the revenue streams are not strong enough to properly feed the setup of record industries at the moment. With the current setups with multiple departments, such a radical change in the business structure can only be implemented first by an independant. With this in mind the independant label can not use the above method so easily either because the demand only exists when there is alot on offer. Also you would need to know exactly how much these sites produce revenue wise to properly implement such a plan, but recieving such figures would leave such sites open to more legal problems since their activities are currently illegal |
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