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gwion
wild colonial boy
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Pittsburgh, PA
| I said it before ...
... the xIAA's were tech illiterates, and their flailing around for draconian legal means of addressing a problem THEY created for themselves, by not leveraging the technologies for themselves like every other technologically literate company and industry with any vision or intelligence was doing, years ago did.
They're now offering evidence against themselves... like I said before, they better either take some of those billions they're dumping into enforcement and get on the cutting edge with their own delivery technologies, soon, or they're going to end up like a dinosaur in a tarpit, sooner than they think. Business is dog eat dog. If they don't start providing legal, convenient, useful, economical distribution channels through new technologies, they're going to watch someone else sign their artists and do it, sooner or later. Then, the whole issue will become moot... their CD's will sit beside telegraph keys and copper wire in the Smithsonian, and they'll sink slowly into the black goo, to be all but forgotten, outside of history class...
When you make the bed, you should not be heard to complain about the short-sheeting when you have to sleep in it... 
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Qumahlin
Never Enough Time
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join:2001-10-05
united state
| The worst part is the artists have no choice...no artist I kno of joins the RIAA..their record label is the one who is part of the RIAA hence making all said artists works protected by the RIAA.
There are plenty of artists who have stated they do not mind people downloading their music..but the wishes of the artist does not matter..the artist does not own the music
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gwion
wild colonial boy
Premium,ExMod 2001-08
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Pittsburgh, PA
| Well, yes, guess I should have said, "their constituent labels will find their artists signing to others"... the RIAA (and MPAA), we do need to recall, is a PAC/advocacy group for the industry, not a "business." Thanks for pointing that out, it's a very important distinction... 
And it becomes pretty obvious, to even the least articulate, business-wise, among us, that they sure aren't a PR and marketing group, that's for sure... if their constituent members would step out of the office, for just a few minutes, and walk around and chat the customers in a record store or DVD shop, they would probably be cancelling their memberships in droves...
In the sixties, a lot of artists found that the mainstream labels either wouldn't sign them, or would only sign them if the artists gave them creative control over content... in the zeitgeist of sixties music and thinking, that was horrible, to most of the artists... and a lot of the artists either found patrons who would publish their music, or started their own studios and labels, if they could raise the money... many, rather successfully...
Lou Reed is one artist still pretty well recognized, who had some rather unpopular (with the labels) content, by way of example, and he would probably still be another unknown club circuit player, had Andy Warhol not walked into the Bottom Line one evening and heard him, and grabbed him after the show to ask, "hey, how would you like to cut a record?" In a free enterprise system, anything that looks workable and profitable is bound to eventually draw an entrepreneur willing to buck the system...
In tamer genres, Herb Alpert started A&M, to distribute his and his friends' music... they were the label that signed the Carpenters, when literally every single mainstream label was laughing them out of the studio... they recorded and distributed, from Charlie Chaplin's old home, for such other artists as James Brown, Joe Cocker, Cream, The Flying Burrito Brothers, The Moody Blues, Nazareth, Cat Stevens, Styx, Supertramp, The Bee Gees, Rick Wakeman, Joe Jackson, The Police, Squeeze, Oingo Boingo, Soundgarden and Andrew Lloyd Webber, over the years... alas, they were absorbed by Polygram, and Alpert left after he perceived they were just being used as an "alias" by Polygram, now owned entirely by Universal (guess where that probably puts them, today?)...
At any rate, where there's a will, there's a way... in fact, since a lot of the big labels of today were created by artists to distribute their own rejected pieces, back when, it would probably do well for the present owners to look at their own histories, before being too absorbed in their own status. Never forget your roots... and careful whose toes you step on on the way up... they may be attached to the.... well, we all know the rest...
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