riaa lawsuits have hurt my artists, says ceo Music label
Written by Ernesto on August 20, 2006“The major labels are using fear as a tactic to push these kids away from these P2P systems, you can’t use fear to change these behaviors, it just isn’t effective. These lawsuits have hurt my artists. We need to stop these lawsuits.”
This is what Nettwerk CEO Terry McBride said at the Bandwidth music and technology [...]
“The major labels are using fear as a tactic to push these kids away from these P2P systems, you can’t use fear to change these behaviors, it just isn’t effective. These lawsuits have hurt my artists. We need to stop these lawsuits.”
This is what Nettwerk CEO Terry McBride said at the Bandwidth music and technology conference. Nettwerk is the record label of Barenaked Ladies and Avril Lavigne (and more artist), who joined the Canadian Music Creators Coalition earlier this year. The CMCC is rising up against p2p lawsuits, statutory damages, DRM and the prohibition of copying and sharing Music. They believe that people should be able to explore and share music, without legal threats.
CEO McBride supports this initiative, and backs up his artists stating:
“Avril or any of my artists would never sue a fan,” McBride said. “I want those fans to share that music. When (the original) Napster hit, we had the same knee-jerk reaction that everyone else did: ‘Who are these kids, let’s get them and sue them.’ But after a while we realized that they were no different than I was when I was as a teenager, just looking to consume as much music as possible.”
That’s the spirit!
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“But after a while we realized” It seems they are trying to get a better reputation.
But its good that some finally realized that this GOT to stop!
@Johan
unfortunately (or luckily if you will) this nettwerk label boss is NOT a member of the RIAA and their sue’ em all terror campaign.
So, that HE is smart enough to understand that musiclovers are not the enemy does not mean that those RIAA bastards will stop it.
People should actually buy music from the Canadian thingy just to show support for what they believe. If everyone stops buying RIAA bullcrap and starts buying from these guys, the RIAA will realise that they aren’t helping themselves by making their consumers hate them. Perhaps more artists will eventually get out of their multi-year multi-album contracts that are forced on them by RIAA labels and get signed by the sane label that is a host for the fine canadian artist guys such as Barenaked Ladies and Avril.
that would be an awesome plan, but people want money, and they’ll do anything to get it, even if it’s signing with labels under the RIAA or whatever. And people will still constantly buy music. But i do agree with this whole Canadian idea. That’s how i find new music to listen to. People send music to their friends, and then they decide if they like it enough to buy the cd.
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