'I saw the angel in the marble and carved until I set him free.' — Michelangelo
Many members and visitors will doubtless have seen the wildly inaccurate statement today by AEG that Prince is not suing his fans and referring to the Prince Fans United sites as phoney etc
read it all here http://www.princefansunited.com/
It was only the other day when american corporations declared war on individuals. Now it seems australia wants to copy our sister america, and throw people in the big house for downloading music (article here). “We would hope that the ISPs and the record companies could come up with an alternative solution,” said MIPI general manager Sabiene Heindl. Well if Radiohead can come up with a decent solution, how come people earning hundreds of zillions of dollars cant? Look, lets be honest, artists who work hard deserve to be paid out the frame like donahue (ice-t), but we all know half these executives dont have a creative bone in their bodies so why should they be getting paid all the big money? Michael Franti encourages people to go to his shows/concerts and record them and share them, and he seems to do ok.
People will always pay for good music, its just how much do these big companies want that is the problem.
Hot on the heels of Radioheads brilliant move to allow customers to pay what they want for their new album, The land of the Free home of the brave has become not so free for Jammie Thomas a 30-year-old environmental coordinator with the Mille Lacs Band of Ojibwe Indians. Seems they “cant” find bin laden, but they can find a women who copies a few songs, and then fine her 10 years wages. That will teach those pesky pirates a lesson, You want to copy some songs to your ipod, well not anymore, or you are going to jail. Then again, it really shouldnt be any suprise should it? I mean corporations are there to make money for their shareholders, not to worry about people like us.
“Duluth resident Jammie Thomas has been found guilty by a jury in US District Court of having downloaded and shared 24 specific unauthorized music files and was ordered to pay the recording industry $220,000 USD.
The number, although ridiculously high, could have been much worse. The evidence presented shows that Thomas’ system could have been responsible for pirating over 1700 tracks meaning she would have been liable for up to $16 million USD.
The case, which only lasted a day, had tons of testimony from corporate representatives including unbelievable testimony by a Sony BMG rep that said that all ripping of music from retail CDs, even for personal use, is theft. Imagine that, getting the music from your own paid for CDs, and you are a thief. ”
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