Re: (TV) bummer

[Fred Scholl <fscholl@gmail.com>]

Seems to me that the "music industry" may be digging its own grave, longterm...

Aside from going after their customers...
What about the upcoming generation of musicians, who will now know
that the "industry" is thwarting their efforts to learn to play?  How
likely does it seem that these kids will look forward to a record with
one of these wonderful corporations, when they easily can record and
duplicate their own work at home on their own computers and bypass
"the industry"?



On 12/9/05, Joe Hartley <jh@brainiac.com> wrote:
> On Fri, 9 Dec 2005 17:52:44 +0000
> Keith Allison <keith@marquee.demon.co.uk> wrote:
>
> > No problem, pretty soon Sony's "rootkit"-based DRM will soon have
> > completely trashed everybody's computers and they won't be able to read
> > the sites anyway.
>
> Not so - those of us not under the thrall of MickeySoft haven't had our
> machines compromised at all.
>
> I'd noticed some time back that a number of guitar sites had taken to
> posting songs with only lyrical snippets, like this:
>
> D           Bm                G       A             D
> Docks...  A whisper woke...       ....water would resume.
>
> One wonders just how copyrightable just a chord sequence is.
>
> I have to say, though, that it pisses me off righteously that they
> now see musicians themselves as the enemy, at least if they look on
> the Internet for someone else's songs, or even their own!
>
> I saw Leo Kottke a couple of years ago, and he told the story of wanting
> to do one of his early pieces in his show, and couldn't for the life of
> him remember how it went, so he went on the net and found that someone had
> tabbed it out, and he used that to re-learn the tune!
>
> Michael Stipe from REM has also famously had to go to the net and download
> song lyrics (especially It's The End Of The World As We Know It) because he
> can 't remember them.
>
> It's all going to come back and bite the RIAA and the labels in the ass,
> just not soon enough for many people's liking.
>
> --
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