Posted by Bill on 12/08/06 21:59

I fervently hope you have your wish: that every internet site stops
anyone from posting any of your music. But let's be logical here:
nobody pays to hear your music on the radio, so let's make sure the
radio stations stop playing your music. And make sure that no one hears
any of your songs on tv or in a film. If all of us work diligently
towards your goal, before you know it, nobody will ever have heard of
your music.

There's a lot of talent in the world-- maybe not every singer has
Christine Aquilera's breasts, but there are a lot of talented musicians.
If you really want to take your music out of circulation, do it--
someone else will be quite glad to trade the exposure for free
downloads. If they are really any good, they will be able to sell
tickets to live performances, and CD's to the significant chunk of the
population that still prefers to buy in tangible form.

I have a feeling an entire generation of artists will need to get over
it, and this will all be a non-issue for the generation that grew up
downloading music.

I don't like this solution, but it might be the only one: a surcharge
or tax on all recordable media and internet accounts, pooled into a
fund, and distributed to artists according to frequency of access of
their material. In Canada, this surcharge is nominal and doesn't seem
to annoy people particularly. In exchange, you can legally copy any CD
you like.

And that's going to be my last word on the subject. Whew!


Christopher Campbell wrote:
It is not a few tracks; it is all of them --
> everything the artist has ever done, his entire life's work, now possibly
> made worthless and irrelevant by the arrogant irresponsibility of a bunch of
> self-serving YouTube clowns.
>
>

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