http://www.perspectives.creativescotland.org.uk/discuss/accessibility

Rocks.

and as what i said earlier..

(part of it… just read the rest on my earlier post.)

…..because what you do and share with humanity, you also do for your self, and the very reward is when humanity sees its soul. because it is its purpose.

You better get your monies from ads, and I’ll most likely be blocking them with adblock, hosts file, or even a CSS stylish script if it still pops up & annoys me too much.

Find new ways to market your products Record Industry & Hollywood. Seriously though, most of the crap you put out is pure ass anyhow. Time 2 look for a new meal ticket I guess… Maybe then Indie artists & filmmakers will get their time to shine…

BTW I didn’t really learn about downloading all my media until the RIAA/MPAA got so much media attention from suing fans, so THANKS GUIZE!

More precisely, it’s:
‘where supplies are not affordable’
and/or
‘where supplies are not available when they are needed’

The supplies DO exist.

as an artist also, i also have an understanding of the word passion, when you work for something that your passionate about it should be done not just for your own good you want others to see it because you want to share your ideas with the world and your very reward is when others agree on it or if others see the soul in it thats what passion is for me, and when you work for something it shouldnt be done for your own good only, you should do it for humanity everyone has a passion for whatever it is that they like to accomplish or do, and doing it just for your self is pointless and selfish you should do the things that your passionate about for humanity and not just for your own benefit for it will be pointless, it shouldnt actually have a price for why do you do it in the first place, if your purpose is to earn big, then all you think about is yourself and its pointless everyone who does things with passion do it with a purpose, and they dont do it just for themselves because its pointless and i know im being redundant now, my native language isn’t English and i am having a hard time expressing myself,

…..because what you do and share with humanity, you also do for your self, and the very reward is when humanity sees its soul. because it is its purpose.

http://www.heraldscotland.com/news/home-news/we-can-t-turn-back-the-tide-of-internet-piracy-says-tv-boss-1.926805?localLinksEnabled=false

All I’m waiting for is for Spotify to have the ability to play local media and it will be, in my eyes, perfect.

Good on you Ms. Taylor, we need people like you in the industry to speak out against this madness – it is appreciated.

i have to respectfully disagree. neither of us are wrong, its just that our experiences are different and we know different people.

it’s not about legalisation but making things ILLEGAL why did they made file-sharing illegal?

you wouldn’t make google illegal if microsoft asks the law makers to do so? wouldn’t you?

that doesn’t make any damn sense!
but this is the same as the second war if you lived in Germany you heard all people say that Jews are bad, because so many people sad that you actually was gonna think those people are bad!

share-
it’s faire…

Once again you labour under the assumption that any musical artist deserves to work purely as a musician, because they’re good at it. If they have no other skills then that’s purely their own fault and nobody else’s, and they need to get in the queue down at the job centre like everybody else. The world does not owe anybody a living wage for following their passion.

Those of us living in reality know you CAN’T be purely a musician – well, actually you can, but you have to be very lucky to be so, even WITH all the old business models and label/distribution infrastructure. I know a LOT of incredibly talented musicians who will never have the chance to work as a musician full time and it’s a shame, because it’s their passion, but they don’t play the music the labels want to sell (even though it’s the music many people like to listen to) so it’s just the way it has to be for now.

If we got rid of the behemoth labels it wouldn’t make the slightest bit of difference to 99.99% of the musicians out there, but it might hurt that .01% who get paid far too much for the amount of work they do, and that’s a very good thing – it’ll make them have to work and be creative again and also build a level playing field for all the creative musos out there, but the labels don’t like it because they’re suddenly irrelevant.

Have a look at the number of ‘great’ artists who actually had any kind of comfortable living wage in their lifetime. Not many of them. Most of them, like the great painters, were WORKING artists who laboured day-in, day-out to create works that they could sell to people just to pay the rent and eat. If they were lucky they’d find a rich patron who liked their work and paid them a retainer to create works. Even looking at the modern ‘art’ scene – how many artists do you know who work full time just creating their ‘art’? How many can you name versus how many are out there?

I think you misinterpreted my use of the word “get”. I understand that we don’t receive jobs after losing them. that would be ridiculous.

the only point i was making was that being a great musician or a great painter etc is a gift. mozart was a gifted composer, picasso was gifted artist. they are unique. their talent allowed them to create masterpieces that no one else could BUT they also couldn’t do anything else because that is what defined them and gave their lives meaning. It was their passion.

you are completely out of touch with reality if you think “most of the artists are filthy fucking rich”. That’s a gross and misinformed generalization that helps you justify all your downloading.

Your opinion is so narrow minded that i can’t even take you seriously.

@59

thank you for the wonderful and eloquent answers.

Politics in Britain are as predictable as they are corrupt.

Jess
http://www.anonymous.ua.tc

RT

Interesting Lady…

Alice Taylor for Prime Minister!

It is standard practice to flood an opposing point of view off the front page with a more scandalous story. Organizations and political parties often sit on big stories for months just in case they need to steal the limelight in situations like this.

Yes Simon, many of us ARE musicians and DO have other jobs to pay the bills, because being an artist has never been about the money, it’s purely about the art. I’m a musician because I love writing, recording and playing music, and I get even more enjoyment out of it if other people enjoy it too whether they be at a live show or listening to one of my free tracks on a million and one social and music networking sites, podcasts, independent radio and p2p sharing.

Of course I’d love to be able to write and play music all day every day and not have to work another job, but like most musicians, I’m a realist too. Life in the real world means working to pay those bills however you must (or living on piffling benefits), and making anything extra you can from the music.

I won’t buy from major labels (or their sudo-indie derivatives) anymore, but I WILL buy direct from the artist, because I know they’re getting 100 % of the cash (minus their expenses). That’s the problem with the current status quo you see, the labels get nearly all of the cash for none of the creative input and the musician just gets left footing the bill. I believe that most ‘pirates’ out there would not feel so aggrieved at paying a fair price for an album if they knew they were paying the artist direct and the labels weren’t involved.

Therefore, the most sensible way forward that I can see is for artists to sell their own music, and the more forward thinking of us are already doing this. I recently bought some music from an indie artist who had a ‘pay-what-you-think-it’s-worth, but-we-think-it’s-worth-about-3-to-5-quid’ pricing scheme, with the permission given to then copy and share the album amongst friends and others (free marketing/distribution, because recommendations mean more than cold-selling, so will probably result in greater future sales).

On top of this, artists will continue to actually work for their money and play as many live shows as it takes to scrape any kind of a pittance together, and find ways to sell merch effectively. Spreadshirt, Cafe Press and their ilk allow an artist to set up a shop with zero overhead, and you only pay a commission on anything you manage to sell, so you don’t need any money up front to produce TShirts.

Neither do you need to be a marketing guru. You just have to make sure you have exposure everywhere possible. Sure it’s time-consuming and tedious, but once you’ve set up profiles and a dozen or so major sites, you don’t need to spend so much time maintaining them, and use the 3 or 4 biggies to let people know of your gigging schedule.

In summary, most musicians DO think of themselves as artists. And how many artists do you know aren’t ‘struggling’? How many filthy stinking rich sculptors, painters or any discipline of the arts do you know? They all have to work and most of them have to work other jobs to support their art, or starve. Them’s the breaks, and as a muso you CHOOSE whether to do it or not ;)

MP3 does not replace CD.

So where is my high resolution digital music device that I can plug into my high end stereo and will beat the crap out of not only my CD player but also my very expensive turntable?

The technology is there since at least ten years what we don’t have anything?

This is not true. People will pay for music again but not before all these corporate parasites are all dead.

The cinema business is still big, no one likes telesyncs or cams. They look like crap!
The dark knight grossed $67M in the first day.
The movie industry isn’t dying, like you would be lead to believe.

erm, i mean Hail Alice!

So rare to see someone in the entertainment industry who actually seems to be able to see beyond their own wallet =)

If something is digital how does that make it okay to refuse payment versus a physical object like a magazine?

This is a rare victory for common sense. If only the entertainment industry would think this way and develop a new model. They have probably spent more money on chasing us than they would have on creating an all you can eat download service.

And as far as the MPAA goes I have boycotted Hollywood and will buy any new movie DVD as I buy those used which helps my local economy and gives hollywood nothing back..hahahahaha

All the masterminds (armchair activists) behind this illegitimate movement will look back from prison and wonder why they thought they could get the whole world to change. They will regret all their masquerading and futile, political posturing.

What does this have to do with consuming media? Isn’t there only one thing you do with a movie or a song? What else can you do with a movie besides watch it? Payment has nothing to do with consumption. It’s acquisition. You make it sound like they are trying to impose something unjust upon the masses. Paying for things just helps people profit from their work. How is that wrong?

And if people gets fired they DONT RECEIVE another job. They have to apply for it and be lucky enough to do the right things and get selected in up to about 3 interviews. You actually have to work to get a job.

Exception: CEO do GET another job, its more like a transfer within the old boys network.