01-26-2012, 11:02 PM
""File-sharing" seems to cover the legitimate, where you might share something you had created, or to which you had a right, and the illegitimate, where I perhaps, obtain a song by buying it, and then, with no right to the copyright, share with limitless numbers of people. I do not see why an artist should be forced to traipse around, just because others are too mean to buy what he has created. Then again, it's mighty handy...."
I guess that's from Ed also.
There has been market research done, sorry I can't remember where, that shows "album" sales increase in markets where people have to ability to pay for the product, when a song is "shared" on the internet. Of course sales will not increase in Bangladesh because those people never had the money to buy it in the first place. It is these non-existent sales that the record companies are complaining about. The large majority of artist don't complain because
a. they get little revenue from their "records"
b. they know that internet sharing gets them major publicity
c. they are not established artist and so it only helps them.
Think about this. Record companies put "official" versions on YouTube which can easily be pirated. Why?
Another issue,and the primary one: Record companies are afraid they will become obsolete because artist can go directly to the public with sales and cut the record companies out of the loop. These copyright laws are about making sure that doesn't happen, by making sure "sharing" doesn't happen. It has nothing to do with copyright.
I guess that's from Ed also.
There has been market research done, sorry I can't remember where, that shows "album" sales increase in markets where people have to ability to pay for the product, when a song is "shared" on the internet. Of course sales will not increase in Bangladesh because those people never had the money to buy it in the first place. It is these non-existent sales that the record companies are complaining about. The large majority of artist don't complain because
a. they get little revenue from their "records"
b. they know that internet sharing gets them major publicity
c. they are not established artist and so it only helps them.
Think about this. Record companies put "official" versions on YouTube which can easily be pirated. Why?
Another issue,and the primary one: Record companies are afraid they will become obsolete because artist can go directly to the public with sales and cut the record companies out of the loop. These copyright laws are about making sure that doesn't happen, by making sure "sharing" doesn't happen. It has nothing to do with copyright.
How long after picking up the brush, the first masterpiece?
The goal is not to obfuscate that which is clear, but make clear that which isn't.
The goal is not to obfuscate that which is clear, but make clear that which isn't.