"Group Sues AT&T Over Ringtones Heard In Public" [MocoNews]
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It's like my boy (a musician) put it so brilliantly the other day: They want to have their cake and eat it too, and also they want your cake.
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]]>I guess soon skaters will have to pay when we perform a program using music. We won't be able to cut music to our time specifications and then they'll fee us to death every time we do it, even if it's only for a little recital at a stupid rink in the middle of nowhere. Even if only twelve people ever see the performance.
Imagine the fees for competing the program!
So I guess we won't be able to skate to music; we'll just have to go out there and perform elements and the audience will just have to imagine it. :P
Jerks!
]]>Go to www.streamingsoundtracks.com. All soundtracks and they play lots of video game music. :)
]]>Because home transcription is ruining the sheet music industry. Because this is 1920.
]]>@ktetch: You might be right, but even so, fifty years is sufficient. It would protect an artist for his lifetime.
The problem lies in corporations like Disney which profited from public domain works but now don't want their own to fall into the public domain. "Steamboat Willie" should have been public domain 38 years ago. Now they lobby governments (read: bribe politicians) to change laws for their own benefit.
Like I said the first time, let's act within the laws as they used to be written (but without profiting from doing so) as a form of peaceful protest.
]]>When will they start going after us when we get a song stuck in your head? I've had Love Train by The O'Jays stuck in my head for about 3 days now. I'm surprised I didn't get a notice from anybody claiming I owe them money.
]]>Andrew Norton
Head, Pirate Party International
Former Chairman, Pirate Party US
If the bands ONLY did original music, I wonder, would they still try to come after you?
]]>The Pirate Bay's logo is an allusion to this.
"Home taping is killing music!"
]]>I stopped about 5 years ago, as well, except for buying direct from non-RIAA artists.
What's even better is, between 1995 and 2000, I bought ONE CD. After 2000, I bought dozens. I started buying music again because of Napster. (Radio FAILED me.)
]]>Given how in-their-pockets some of the legislators are, I envision the inevitable outcome to be an entrenched fear of playing or listening to, even inadvertently, any copyrighted music, because then you must toil in the mines for 20 years.
YOU HEARD THAT. IT'S ON FOUR DIFFERENT VIDEOS. YOU ARE COMING WITH US CITIZEN.
]]>Let's give a big, collective "Fuck you" to copyright whores like the RIAA and ASCAP: obey the copyright laws as they used to be written.
The length of copyright law was once fifty years, so let's treat it that way now. Take any song made before 1959, convert it to MP3 or make a ringtone of it and give it away, then tell the bastards (anonymously, of course) that we're doing it.
Companies who want to gouge consumers out of money should have their greed shoved back in their faces.
]]>@raleel: That is only the case under "fair use" laws, to provide an example of a song. Since this involves personal use, that law doesn't apply.
See my further post below if you read this without it. I'm not against your POV.
]]>@600Followers_GitEmSteveDave: It's usually not broken down by what they play and for how long, but rather a licensing fee to ASCAP for the right to replay the music at their discretion.
]]>Folks, ASCAP is not interested in protecting the Artists (the A in ASCAP)...they're in it for themselves (and will throw the Artists a bone now and then to keep up appearances).
]]>DROP YOUR PRICES and INCREASE QUALITY. REMOVE DRM. This will dramatically increase sales.
I mean when you have pricks like Sony installing ROOTKITS on people's PC's so they can listen to an audio cd......
]]>Aaah Video game music. I Love the Xenogears, Xenosaga and Final Fantasy music. It's amazing.
]]>@EricLecarde: When cassettes and CD's were introduced, the RIAA tried to ban them from the public as well on similar arguments they use today. The problem with MP3's and P2P is the volume of music that you can trade.
]]>Were things like this back when Cassettes and tape players the dominant form of music entertainment? I remember recording music from the radio for my own personal enjoyment and never once did I fear that I would be sued for it. I can remember a time when the only way an unknown artist was able to get his music out was through bootleg copies (cough::metallica::cough). Nowadays, the bootleg is now P2P, and if I download a song, and its good enough, then I buy the song or album from iTunes... but this... this is just getting ridiculous. Now I only buy video game soundtracks. Thats as good as its getting from me.
]]>Did Bank of America acquire ASCAP recently?
]]>It's already had a hugely negative effect on my habits. I used to buy CDs (new) by the box load. I liked music, and wasn't worried about the music gestapo coming to take me away. But for a few years now, I haven't bought a single CD. I'm turned off by the whole thing. I don't listen to the radio, I don't download, I don't buy. I simply do with what I have already, or do without. I'm so disgusted by the greed and stupidity of these entities that I have completely turned my back on them. All the DRM, lawsuits, whining about royalties, confiscating computers, threats to the public, etc. has taken all the enjoyment out of music and movies. The idea that "if you're a paying customer, it doesn't affect you" is bullshit. It does and it has.
]]>If the copyright holder would like to make more money off the licensing (which seems ridiculous considering ringtones are usually more expensive than downloading the entire song) they should negotiate a better licensing agreement rather then taking this course.
]]>Soon, it will be against copyright to play your car radio with the windows down, or with more then 1 person in the car.
If these people had their way, you'd pay $50 per track, that you could listen to twice (within 24 hours). If your music player detected other ears, it'd auto bill you for a performance license (couple grand).
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