Comments on: Artists Don’t Want Pirate Fans to be Disconnected

By: FAC – Künstler mit Zeitgeist « No Time For Despair

FAC – Künstler mit Zeitgeist « No Time For Despair — Fri, 29 May 2009 03:01:22 +0000

[...] Bear on 29. Mai 2009 Über TorrentFreak bin ich letzte (?!) Woche über einen sehr interessanten Bericht gestolpert: Die FAC (Featured Artists Coalition) ist ein Zusammenschluss einiger Künstler, die [...]

By: Wired For Gadgets » Manic Monday XC: Don’t Download This Song

Wired For Gadgets » Manic Monday XC: Don’t Download This Song — Mon, 25 May 2009 01:23:56 +0000

[...] • In fact, he is demanding the RIAA repay $100 Million. Interesting…. • The reality? Artists don’t want the pirates disconnected… • On to Apple news, they’re building $1 billion server farm. • And are Macs going [...]

By: Trys kartai

Trys kartai — Sun, 24 May 2009 03:19:43 +0000

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By: Dire

Dire — Sat, 23 May 2009 11:06:33 +0000

And I thought Robbie Williams was a twat. I take it all back.

By: blah

blah — Thu, 21 May 2009 10:45:27 +0000

Paying artists for music is cool. Paying the “suits” for music isn’t!

By: Radiohead, Iron Maiden y Robbie Williams se oponen a que se desconecte a los usuarios del P2P | Locos por la informática

Thu, 21 May 2009 09:34:15 +0000

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By: Links 21/05/2009: IBM’s GNU/Linux Desktops Again, FSF and Cisco Settle | All about MICROSOFT

Thu, 21 May 2009 08:47:43 +0000

[...] Artists Don’t Want Pirate Fans to be Disconnected Last week, a group of music and other entertainment industry representatives urged the UK government to consider drafting legislation that would force ISPs to disconnect alleged pirates. This proposal now faces opposition from an unexpected corner as a coalition of top artists has spoken out against it, saying that disconnecting their fans is the wrong path to take. [...]

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Thu, 21 May 2009 08:41:32 +0000

By: » Gli artisti contro la politica delle case discografiche

» Gli artisti contro la politica delle case discografiche — Thu, 21 May 2009 02:42:31 +0000

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By: Artists Don’t Want Pirate Fans to be Disconnected « Prema LaNay (A Growing Woman’s Tales)~A songwriter’s perception of the world may be weird for you to see at first…just add music.

Wed, 20 May 2009 21:54:09 +0000

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By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Wed, 20 May 2009 20:05:51 +0000

Jamendo and Magnatune exist already support the new age even if it is not that good right now LoL

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Wed, 20 May 2009 20:03:08 +0000

@broke:

Did you already tried Jamendo or magnatune?
http://www.jamendo.com/en/
http://magnatune.com/

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Wed, 20 May 2009 17:39:17 +0000

Of course. Artists know “piracy” is good to promote their work.

By: JTK

JTK — Wed, 20 May 2009 10:41:52 +0000

Now if only the IFPI and RIAA bastards would listen to them!

http://thepiratebay.org/torrent/4904885/We_re_All_The_Pirate_Bay_RAP_REMIX

By: bunkermann

bunkermann — Wed, 20 May 2009 07:14:06 +0000

Desde España apoyamos toda iniciativa destinada a derrotar a las multinacionales de la cultura.
Saludos http://www.internautas.org/

By: Dizzy

Dizzy — Wed, 20 May 2009 05:36:01 +0000

“Clearly, some form of P2P subscription service is the way forward, if only because it provides the most convenient way for consumers to access music,” Bragg argues.

YES… they finally understand it… just let us pay a certain amount every month through our ISP’s so we can download our stuff!!!

By: Do not disconnect pirate’s plea from artists : Webmaster Roadmap

Do not disconnect pirate’s plea from artists : Webmaster Roadmap — Tue, 19 May 2009 23:39:56 +0000

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By: broke

broke — Tue, 19 May 2009 23:38:57 +0000

@rabbit80, i’m an american who has been playing music for about 15 years. i’ve put out 12 albums, 16 7″s, handfuls of comp tracks, singles, etc, by 6 different bands. i’ve toured the united states coast to coast 9 times, and i’ve toured europe and the uk 3 times.

the bands have dedicated fans and avid supporters.
i understand what it means to split what money is made touring. not much is there in the end, because after all, it costs alot to put those things together.

there is a threshold at which point a band hopefully pays its touring debts off and you make a band profit. and then the profit is split amongst members. in most cases, this doesn’t leave much of a personal budget to live from.

i’m not concerned about getting rich here, but it seems like there should be a little more where there isn’t much.

would you do your job for free? just find a second job to cover it?

By: anon

anon — Tue, 19 May 2009 23:35:48 +0000

I remember a book I read a while back (Little Brother) They had a service called Indienet, provided by their isp (included with their internet) bands added their own music and then received a portion of the profits, based on their relative amount of downloads, no one pays but bands still get paid sounds good to me.(the isp’s motive is more customers b/c people want to use the service)

By: Brave D

Brave D — Tue, 19 May 2009 20:21:20 +0000

I’m glad some artist got together and formed FAC.

The way forward IMO, is to have every artist set up their own webpage, and also open a Paypal account and have links for it on their page. This way, payments can be made directly the artist, into an account they can personally control and monitor.

As well as this, an iTunes like model and physical copies need to exist. There can be a place for the middleman in all this, if they argee to not exploit artists income etc.

Perhaps some of us should write to FAC, and create some dialogue and suggest ideas to fix this problem for the better.