UK Music Groups Launch Super Anti-Piracy Coalition
Written by enigmax on October 27, 2008Umbrella groups in the UK which represent various parts of the music industry have decided that, in order to win the war on Internet piracy, what they really need is an even bigger umbrella group for all the other umbrella groups to shelter under. That new group, UK Music, is launched today.
The last few years have proved enlightening and liberating for potential entrants to the music business. The Internet provides the possibility for artists to create their own work, market and promote it and finally, distribute it without the need for outside interference help.
Despite the growing ability to control their own destiny, thousands of artists and industry personnel still prefer the help and guidance of a recording label who, among other things, will take anti-piracy action where necessary. In turn, many of these labels feel that they themselves need some sort of support when trying to stamp out piracy, so they turn to a large umbrella group such as the BPI, the British equivalent of the RIAA.
There are many of these groups, all claiming to offer support to various parts of the music and recording industry. In addition to the BPI there is the Association of Independent Music which represents around 800 UK labels and distributors, The British Academy of Composers and Songwriters which claims to be “A single voice for all music writers”, and the MCPS-PRS Alliance, the outfit charged with the dignified collection of performance revenues. Not forgetting the Music Managers Forum of course, which represents the rights of pop music managers, and the self explanatory Musicians Union and Phonographic Performance Limited, which licenses recorded music on behalf of 3,500 labels and 37,000 performers.
Now, as if there aren’t enough industry associations in the music business already, along comes another. Starting today, a new umbrella group known as UK Music is born, and under its guidance will fall all of the other umbrella groups (and under them the artists, labels and distributors) as it aims to bring everyone together in one voice in harmony with itself, if that’s even possible.
After being appointed as the Chief Executive of British Music Rights, (yet another music umbrella group), the head and CEO of UK Music is the former pop star Feargal Sharkey. In addition to nurturing young musical talent, he will become the negotiator-in-chief between the music industry, the government and ISPs who between them will be expected to do the impossible - stamp out Internet piracy. Sharkey will be expected to unify all the hopes and dreams of all the other umbrella groups under his guidance, whilst influencing the decision makers in government, which should become easier with the recent arrival at UK Music of Jo Dipple, the former strategic communications adviser to the Prime Minister.
Speaking with The Guardian, Sharkey said that he believes that the Memorandum of Understanding recently reached between the government, labels and ISPs was an important moment and says he believes that unity shouldn’t be difficult to achieve. “The thing we all realized is that we all agree with each other 95% of the time. It’s looking at where the industry is going to be three, four or five years from now.” Sharkey isn’t just limiting his vision to five years, though. Another of UK Music’s aims will be to have the current copyright protection period of 50 years, extended further.
In 2009, UK Music will deliver a manifesto calling for government support in propping up the ever more bloated music industry - probably starting at the bar of one of many additional black-tie ‘umbrella’ events UK Music will spawn.
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71 Responses
You’ve got to be kidding me!
They really need to get over the money factor. The industries need to realize music is for entertainment, and if they let it be they will make their money.
Don’t you just wish some angry person with various chemicals walks right into that building when they are all there…
BLAME IT ON THE RAIN!
Oh wait, wrong song ;)
piracy is there cuz its virtually risk free. will most pay the outrageous price they want for a cd filled to 95% with total crap (usually one decent track on there)if there were no internet piracy? get real..
part of me wish they get their dream come thru, and what will they blame failing sales on then? global warming? who knows..
Feargal is cool: he wants to legalize P2P and thinks suing music lovers is stupid.
Go Feargal.
Stupid Topic, same SH*T like always.
Anti Piracy Companies are Barking & Barking for Money.
Chill Mates
sharkey might be against 3 strikes but i doubt hugely he wants to legalize p2p, unless ‘legalize’ means “charge money for”
If the music/movie useless industry wants to win its self-inflicted “war on piracy” they just need to install the worst totalitarian dictactorship ever on Earth, they’re on their way to it, the question remains: will they “succeed” (and kill us all in the process…) or will we stop this whole 21st century madness ?
bring it on your anti-piracy efforts are on the trail to an epic fail :p
Thr UK is becoming even more stupid, and this goes for the RIAA aswell, but they should try to embrace the new technology and the fact that people on BitTorrent do share the music/films they love without too much problems. If they started a site, and say made to pay if you so much a track, and gave you rewards back if you traded in your upload credit or something (minimum ratio must be 1:1) to be spent back in their store (yeah its like a credit system) maybe more people would go there, but only if it DRM Free and highish bit-rates or various amounts of bitrates.
Thats just my quick take on this crazy situation :P
The fat cats need to be made redundant, they’re suffocating the music industry with their flab.
You still don’t get, people, do you? If someone is making anything and he gets a copyright/patent on it, it belongs to him and/or the publisher which (s)he’ve chosen. It’s their right to make money from it - they are not forcing you to buy it.
And cut the bullshit with piracy being piracy or copying, not stealing. You, the old pirates, may have get used with it. It is unauthorized usage which can be classified as stealing.
Also, if you still think that piracy helps to spread widespread music, then it’s your problem. Well, it doesn’t. Piracy can help independent unknown artists/filmmakers/game makers to spread the word, but they won’t find any publisher if they’d spread it after the contract.
To #13, yeah, it’s stealing by law, but nobody is losing anything.
If I could afford to pay for the music I wanted, I would. But I can’t afford to. If I don’t have the actual funds available for it, then if I wasn’t downloading how would I be able to pay for music? I wouldn’t.
Also, it’s not a “lost sale”. When I download, it’s not that a copy which could have been sold is lost, it’s just than an extra copy has been created for *free*.
Also, where do you stand on rare music? If you can’t find a proper shop which will definitely give a percentage to the artist, and will only be paying someone on Ebay for the physical copy, is there a point?
Anyways, back on topic.
It’s not going to matter if they can somehow stop downloading, because I still won’t be able to afford music. I’ll end up still just getting me and a few friends to pool together for new released, hand them around a bit and then that’s maybe 5 or more copies for the price of one…
Thats all fine and dandy.. but there not giving customers what they want.. so you do the math, you seem pretty good at that. lol.
Hey RIAA I just bought this CD and I wanted to put the music from it on my IPOD.. oohh.. i cant?
Fail.
Hey RIAA I just want this one song but its not available on itunes..
Fail.
Hey RIAA how come I cant burn the music I got from itunes onto a CD?
Fail.
Hey RIAA I want to share this really cool song with my friend.. what do i mean I cant?
Fail
RIAA = Fail.
Pirates = Win
i remember when umbrellas kept us dry. now they shit all over us in the name of a dollar.
Well I dug through my CD collection that I bought legally and decided to rip em all onto my IPOD..
Win
But then I couldnt find the certain ones that I had bought.. so I just downloaded them..
Win
While I was doing that I stumbled onto some crazy music I never even heard of..
Win
So I decided to share them with my friends and they loved it..
Win
Then we decided to go to the show cause they were playing nearby! I bought a t-shirt and then I just put some money into the donation jar, just to help the band out.
Win
Piracy = Win
RIAA = Fail
So, when you don’t have the money, according to yout logic you STILL have to GET it (even though the publisher doesn’t lose anything)?
That’s plain wrong there, mate. First get a proper job, then enjoy your money.
So if I go buy a cd……the artist that recorded it gets the majority of the money right?….Time and time again I have read that the artist gets virtually no money from the sale of their cd’s…..! So if you want to support the artist…go to their concerts…buy their cd’s at the shows that they are personally selling….then they get the money…! Stop buying them any other way…In the meantime….I personally have not bought music at all since cd’s have come out….why should I ….I purchased music for years on LP….8 track….cassette….example…I have goodbye yellow brick road on all three mediums….and I will be damned it I pay for it on cd….but you can bet I will download it off the net. The RIAA gets no more of my money for stuff I already have 3 legally purchased copies of.
To the anti-pirates:
Even if internet piracy was still totally stamped out, I can garuntee that 99% of people will share music. Have you ever made a mix CD for someone or burned it for someone? Whoops, you just pirated. Same concept except there’s less money involved. It’s not as wide spread as the internet no, but the kids of the record label execs probably pirate themselves by making mix CDs for their friends.
And at least in America, getting a proper job is pretty damned hard atm. Probably gonna get pretty damned hard everywhere else soon too.
Not everyone can get proper jobs though. Some of us have to work the bottom of the ladder so you rich sods can enjoy living.
And some of us do put every single spare penny we get into buying music and going concerts, but when you’ve got £150 a month left to go between buying food and buying CDs, you don’t want to be blowing £15 on a CD with two decent tracks on it. Concerts average from £15-£50 nowadays, plus transport costs. Not easy with that sort of money.
I work in a supermarket, I make about £700 a month, I pay my bills, I get about £150-£200 left over at the end of it to cover food, drink, and fun. I go out to a pub once a week to keep me sane. I don’t drink so I don’t spend a lot of money there. I go to on average at least one major label bands concert a month.
I pirate music. Why? Because I like to check out every potential band that I could like. I hear a song on myspace. 3 minutes doesn’t quite justify the purchase of a 50-60 minute album, so I go on a torrent site and download that album. I give it a listen through. If I don’t like it, goodbye, delete it from the harddrive. If I enjoy it, I’ll give it a few more listens. If I’m enjoying this album so much that it’s convinced me I’d love to see the band, then I’ll go to an online shop, buy the CD, add the band on myspace and wait for concert dates.
By now I own over 500 albums, have been to at least 100 concerts. I book my holiday time off work to go to music festivals and gigs.
I’ve been listening to music the way I have for about six or seven years now.
Can anyone tell me how the RIAA, the BPI, and the major labels plan to find any way to stop me from discovering my music this way and NOT lose money on sales.
I will buy what is worth buying.
I will pirate that which is not.
And I will give others the equal opportunity to do the same.
If I had a ‘Proper Job’ (Which to you must mean a substantial amount of income) I still wouldnt buy. Why would I support an industry that bends laws to its interest and rather sue me than compete? Why would I support an industry that wont adapt to new technology? Or even better.. why would I support a company that is no longer needed? They dont pay the artist much.. and I dont need them since the internet is my distribution method. Il support the artist directly.. and download the music directly.
Thats just plain right there, mate.
Let business evolve naturally, this isnt some kind of END OF THE WORLD thing.. every technology was called Piracy in its day. Remember that.
1 more reason to continue downloading.
best of luck anti p2p privacy thieves. I predict: mass frivolous infringement claims, nobody paying your settlements, more highly publicized court rulings not in your favor, and a greater gain in public appeal of file sharing, ISPS and government telling you to Fck Off, artists continue leaving your criminal front “recording labels” and finally you accept your so called “losses” and jump on the filesharing bandwagon.
oh ya…. thats right this is already happening. Perfect time to join together, so now all the anti-p2p fail in the UK.
A single voice for all music writers my ass. they’re not my voice at least.
sweish pedofile
_super_ anti-piracy coalition? jeez now we’re fcked
brb gotta download something for the sake of it
The self-interests of the record industry and the interests of artists are, by and large, mutually exclusive.
There is no way that a single entity could honestly be looking out for them both.
Case in point: Artist organizers such as Don Henley have been complaining for years that they have not seen a single penny of the millions of dollars that the RIAA has raked in from their lucrative lawsuits against P2P users. (of course they’re being told that “expenses” ate up all the money - the standard response the record industry gives whenever they [routinely] shaft artists.)
I still stand for my standpoint.
Get a proper job! And no, you don’t have to earn over average to get your entertainment.
It’s unethical to use something unauthorized just because you earn little. It just doesn’t work like that.
There needs to be formed a pro-file-sharing umbrella group as a counter-balance towards this. Do any of you think that this is a good idea?
Roze
http://www.10ch.org/
Yeah thats exactly why you support the Rich getting Richer and the poor holding it all up.
F*ck you prick, your capitalist scum, your also exactly what the industry (and government) wants you to be, CATTLE. You do what your told, regardless of it being wrong or not.
You dont stand by anything, since your standpoint is simplistic and narrow minded. We just owned your argument 6 ways to sunday, yet your still the one saying.. ITS WRONG. What do you have to say about the industry screwing everybody the way they do? Is that wrong? Sure 2 wrongs dont make a right, but in this case it makes my world right.
Start encrypting your HDD with TrueCrypt, create hidden partition, install VirtualBox and continue sharing :)
RIAA, BPI and other capitlists must die!
fail
@29 lolz fail, if someone just wants entertainment and doesn’t care about wrong/right or simply thinks it’s right to share you wont get far with your “hey dude infringing other people’s copyrights is totally not OK so please don’t do it” stuff. you have to give them practical reasons not to pirate but since pirated stuff often beats “originals” even in quality (hi @ DRM, 128kbit, trailers before movies etc.) there’s hardly any real reason not to do so.
>It’s unethical to use something unauthorized just because you earn little.
But its ethical to screw the artists themselves? Without their product you would’nt have a job (proper or not)… but that does not matter right?
Its also ethical that the music they produce belongs to the label and not to them so the label can continue to collect royalties long after they are dead.
Its also ethical to sue children as young as 12 years old, single parents, broke ass collage students, the homeless, the elderly (the dead?????!?) for thousands of dollars?
Its also ethical to make up false laws and accusations?
You are and your industry are going down, WE, *the consumers* have decided that.
I’m happy this umbrella group has formed over the other umbrella groups, hopefully some more umbrella groups will form over this one so you can waste your ill gotten gains more and will die quicker.
Joe
http://www.eZee.se
its not stealing damnit so stop calling it that. sharing will never stop ever so get used to it
its not stealing damnit so stop calling it that. sharing will never stop ever so get used to it
Industry sues people with fiction-like fines just because to scare them and others who read it via news. They know people will never have to pay such fines. It’s all to regulate system.
Virtual world isn’t the only plce where people get multi billion suings. They get it as a warning not to do it again.
You people sound communists - everything should be equal between people. This model, unforunately, doesn’t work. People are career-hungry which is good for the country overall (that helps you, too). Only uneducated and poor people support communism.
I have a quite good job, i have a family, and i’m happy. I buy my albums from stores, i download DRM-free tracks from music sites (yes, i also don’t like DRM).
And remembe, thanks to capitalism we’ve gone this far. Publishers pay taxes to the country, thanks to country everything is advancing (payed taxes).
#31 Unproper Job is one of life’s losers. He cannot compete, he blames everyone and everything (including the very system that created this network and his ability to read and post to it) but he avoids the inconvenient truth of his own lack of talent, intellect and application. Let him steal if it makes him feel valuable and powerful. He’s a loser now and he’ll live his life out as an angry, entitled loser. Artists who create are valuable and powerful. Industries who monetize music and movies are valuable and powerful. Filesharers, who can’t even hold down a proper job or attract an adult income, are the real losers in this world. So let them steal and feel good about themselves. It’s all they have. It’s all they will ever have.
And it’s thousand times more you’ll ever have :D
Not being a part of that decadent, ridiculously fetichist system (oh I just wet myself, I can buy a new car when I want *masturbates*) that keeps you have a “I can have it and I only enjoy it become I know others can’t” way of thinking - which makes me think that your mental age is around 5 yo - is a pleasure that a conforming, formated idiot like you or the other proper job turd will never even understand.
So have a nice consumerist life, have a family that you won’t know (what’s the name of your kid already ? what does he like ? who cares, he’ll go to university !) but please, feck off, and don’t tell others how to live.
All we’ll ever have ? A broader and more independant culture ? Friends ? No need to get a TV fix every day ?
Oh damn, my life is so horrible !
/ sarcasm
Ohh Reasoned Mind you have me all figured out dont ya..
Funny how to can gleam all that from that post.. you must be SUPER INTELLIGENT. Oh please tell me how I can gain happiness through material things! After all.. everyone who has material things is happy! Thats the key to happiness! More power, more stuff, more everything!
See what I conveniently left out is that im an IT Administrator, competing is what I do. I dont believe everything should be equal, but I also dont believe in monopolies. I believe in natural evolution of businesses.
So let me turn this back onto you.. see your idea of doing this is working great right now.. uhh ohh.. wait.. not isnt.. what this? The economy is f*cked.. oh yeah thats what you believe in..
And surely its just going to get better through right? I mean this is just a little problem… oh no wait this is going to happen again on an even larger scale since well.. the economy is built to fail.. just like you.
The best part about it is.. when all is said and done.. you wont have any material things since you will be shit on, no retirement, if your lucky your grand children might get you in a home.. so we may end up right next to each other..
Except I will have led a much better life since I didnt base my happiness off of material things.
P.W.N.T
Get stuffed wankers ! - you ripped us off for years with your cartel and now its payback time
“Industry sues people with fiction-like fines just because to scare them and others who read it via news. They know people will never have to pay such fines. It’s all to regulate system.”
Which f**king rock have you been living under? people have been paying these crazy fines for years now, $3k-7$ is no joke to normal working class folk.
Regulate the system? you mean try to protect a failing… oops, make that failed and outdated business model.
And one big point you seem to be forgetting, when it comes to getting artists and cut discs that is your world and quite alien to us. The internet…, programming…, digital distribution etc… is OUR world and you can NEVER compete here, you will always feel alien here while we feel at home thus you can NEVER beat us just as if we tried to start a small label and beat the big boys.
You are going down a spiral, the sad thing: you wont even admit it or in some cases, you dont even know it!!!!!!
http://www.eZee.se
the point is that even if i was a millionaire i would still get my stuff “unauthorized” (maybe buy the good stuff like i do it now from time to time as a form of donation …) . legal service providers just can’t compete with the illegal ones in terms of quality, convenience, offer etc. on RS you find just every somewhat relevant movie ever released and it’s never “out of stock”, “2 weeks wait” etc but on my HD in 10 minutes.
media companies could never get this done because they will never all agree on similiar terms (although the music industry is at least trying) so the only way to do this is via the state. and it’s not as impossible as it sounds, in fact we even used to have something like that here until 2007 when they adobted the copyright laws to the 21. century (moar liek adobting the 21. century to the copyright laws … ): you paid a small amount of money on every dvd, burner, etc. and therefore you could copy everything for yourself, family, friends etc (now you may only use legal sources like bought cds)
a mandatory tax on every dsl line (dependent on the speed) and you’re done. if everyone had to pay it not even the content industry would be complaining because they get at least something instead of nothing: tada everyone happy and if you don’t use it; your fault you pay the same basis tax on your car as everyone else no matter if you use it or not don’t you? would be cheaper for everyone than paying taxes for ridiculous prosecution and it’s not like no one bought dvds in the countries where downloading is still completely legal anyways …
greetz
Big Umbrella Company to support Anti-P2P companies to support recording lables to support artists… And artists wonder where all their CD sales $$$ goes to?!?
Say what you want about P2P, copying, stealing, whatever, the industry F*%@s artists over more then the internet ever could.
BTW, how much does it cost to prosecute a years long failed lawsuit?
Nice, add the Green Lantern and you will have the Justice League LOL…
J.
when you play a CD you bought for anybody but yourself (i.e. not on headphones), is it piracy?
In response to #46
Yes it is and we will prosecute you to the fullest extent of the law.
Me thinking:
UMBRELLA CORPORATION
The shoe fits, wouldn’t you agree ?
But be honest, you’ve never bought any movie/music/game, right?:)
So, you are living off others’ creative work. Piece of shit you are.
Awww, did I corner you with no way to go so you come back name calling?
Sad.
I like a game I buy it, I like some music i try to give directly to the band/artist, I do used to by CDs a loonnng time from the retailers… then later if i ever wanted CDs I always bought second hand.. you might have heard of a site called “ebay”, if you have not… google it up.
I also support musicians by going to concerts and buying tshirts etc there.
As for creative, I program for eZee.se (www.eZee.se) including the AJAX greetings.. but i dont expect to be paid everytime someone sends an ecard from there.
I have also programmed some other apps that will be showcased there in the coming days… and dont miss out articles section either, its full of tips for morons like you and unlike TF we are not against calling the RIAA bastards,scumbags, scum, extortionists and a whole lot more.
Cheers!
http://www.eZee.se
If it’s your voice in the tutorials on your site, well, get some fix. You sound like a muslim :D
lllllllllllllooooooooooolllllllllllllll lamers!!!!!
get a life guys, and real job!!!!!
stupid fuc**** whant to get money screwing us!!! llllllllooollllllllll
idiots!
Internet piracy sure is providing a lot of jobs for people. Look at all these groups that have employees working to stamp out piracy. the thing is, if piracy goes away, they all lose their jobs. So they don’t REALLY want it to go away, just sue a few people/children/deceased corpses, so that they can get their paychecks (which i bet are rather large).
Actually its not, it was done by a christian colleague, not that it matters in any way… other than to people like you.
Its really nice of you to reply to my messages, its easier to see what kind of a person you are, for example we now know you are:
A person who eats up the media propaganda or helps spread it.
Pretty unintelligent
A ‘dirty mouth’ when all your points are proven moot
and
a person who dislikes muslims, ALL muslims not just the crazy ones who blow themselves up.
I really am surprised you said muslim and not something like ‘n*gger muslim’ or put ‘jew’ in that sentence.
This is my last reply to you, so whatever further you have to say.. feel free to talk to yourself.
Good day! Now excuse me while I start up my p2p client.. after all if it was not for people like me these coalitions wouldnt exist now, would they?
I create jobs too!!!!
:D
As I have said, if the Music Groups are going to launch an umbrella organization/coalition, is it not about time that P2P-users also unite under an umbrella organization? Something needs to be as a counter-weight against this. Perhaps much of the nonsense will stop once this happens. What is most important is for pro-file-sharing people to unite. Only then can something REALLY positive happen.
Roze
What. A load. Of Bullshit.
heh
like special olimpics
“Sharkey will be expected to unify all the hopes and dreams of all the other umbrella groups under his guidance, whilst influencing the decision makers in government, which should become easier with the recent arrival at UK Music of Jo Dipple, the former strategic communications adviser to the Prime Minister.”
Answer me, all of you who know:
What are our (the file-sharers’) hopes and dreams? If we have hopes and dreams, do not you all think it would be best to unify them as well? Do not we also wish to influence decision makers in government? Shouldn’t we also be trying to win over influential people in government?
“In 2009, UK Music will deliver a manifesto calling for government support in propping up the ever more bloated music industry - probably starting at the bar of one of many additional black-tie ‘umbrella’ events UK Music will spawn.”
Answer me, all of you who know:
What shall our (the file-sharers’) manifesto be? What shall we call for government to do? When shall we start issuing this manifesto?
I think that these are important questions. The music industry have already set X, Y, and Z as goals. What goals do we have? What are we doing/will do to achieve them? Surely, without thinking about these questions, nothing will get done on our behalf.
Roze
file sharers don’t need an umbrella organization we work better decentraized like now. shutting down Napster was the initially succesful invation of our home land and now it’s guerilla warfare and we’re winning. and besides there’s always EFF if needed they’re like our soviet funding :D
@59
How can we really be better decentralized? What can guerrillas do? How can guerrillas win over people in government? How can guerrillas become more successful in pushing an agenda? Unity in a social and political movement is key to its success. Without unity, there can only be failure. Even guerrillas need some unity, however decentralized it is. What ultimately needs to change is policies in government, and that cannot happen by “guerrilla warfare” alone. Unless people are prepared to do drastic things in this “guerrilla warfare” - like make public denunciations, make public demands, stir people to action, engage in civil disobedience, and go to protest meetings, then nothing will happen. Without unity, there can be no successful political or social movement. After all, a successful political or social movement is defined by what unifies it.
Roze
Rose, you are thinking like an intelligent adult. On a piracy site populated daily with freeloaders and liars, infringers and pimply faced good-for-nothings in their Mom’s basement, there is no place for intelligence. And you knew that all along. :-)
“there is no place for intelligence”
huh? Did you mean “this” is no place for intelligence? I find the witty comments entertaining. I dont think intelligence is in the RIAA handbook oh wait maybe it is
1) try and flame people who criticize the organization.
2) In the event you are made to look particular stupid claim the site for free speech is full of idiots and people living in their moms basement
(despite reality being quite the opposite).
Personally I dont infringe anything. Everything I download/seed falls under the fair dealing provisions of the canadian copyright act. If you cant accept that their are laws in many countries to protect citizens from extortionists like yourself, than maybe your the one lacking intelligence.
please wait! don’t go.
i trade you two chickens and one goat.
yes?
fucking extend 50 year copyright…yeah…great…we all know 50 years isn’t enough
we don’t need to organize. more and more people are not listening to the radio, MTV doesn’t play any music, the records the majors want us to buy are getting worse and worse, being made for some theoretical person that does not exist, driving sales down. All the while, people are turning to indie labels and bands that do everything themselves.
This Fergal Sharkey is like a bad smell!
All the before mentioned industry associations will be propt up by a failed business model.
Someone should tell them, it’s not about the numbers, it’s about the vision.
“The thing we all realized is that we all agree with each other 95% of the time. It’s looking at where the industry is going to be three, four or five years from now.”
The industry will be one of portfollio artists, self-publishing and generaly cutting out the middle-man and, that means you the industry associations.
These artists will have economies of scale if there work is good enough, long gone are the days where an artist can ride the back of a mass marketing campaign and, sell a load of phiffle.
Your music is your marketing campaign.
You get these artists, giving it the big-un, going on as if there the trendy dog’s schalackers, “I’m from the streets”..(rock-stars, home-boy’s)…but when it comes down to it.
They make there pact with grasses, who will shop there own followers to the old bill….that’s not gangster…that’s not real to the streets.
Furgal Sharkey or Frugal shark!…?
people, calm down. there is no way anyone can control internet-for one reason only its constantly expanding and developing-this means for every new sucker presenting a ban on sth comes at least ten ppl like me who WILL find a way to bypass or destroy that restriction-if ppl in china manage to go through their firewalls, stan so can the western world.
bOOm
@65
Everywhere I go, I see the infestation of this corrupt culture. Something tells me that as long as the laws are as they are, this horrid culture will continue to stay and infest in the social sphere. How many people exactly are turning to indie labels? I see not much of it.
Roze
“Rose, you are thinking like an intelligent adult.”
Beware the praise of an idiot.
They still don’t get it.
It’s impossible to stop, the game is over.
Does that article say they’re giving an umbrella for umbrellas? *snigger* Fools.
Music writers hate you, anti-p2p!!!
When will they die like they have been asked to? So rude.
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