Comments on: Big Music: death of the status quo http://www.p2pnet.net/story/10716 p2pnet.net - reader powered Tue, 24 Nov 2009 18:18:06 -0600 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Reader's Write http://www.p2pnet.net/story/10716/comment-page-1#comment-131425 Reader's Write Thu, 14 Dec 2006 21:22:16 +0000 #comment-131425 Funny, isn't it? The music industry folks talk about how "pirating" is taking money away from artists--they trot out some poor, starving rich folks to talk about how they're losing money from file sharing--and then they're lobbying to give less money to these same people? I must be missing something. . . Funny, isn’t it? The music industry folks talk about how “pirating” is taking money away from artists–they trot out some poor, starving rich folks to talk about how they’re losing money from file sharing–and then they’re lobbying to give less money to these same people? I must be missing something. . .

]]> By: Reader's Write http://www.p2pnet.net/story/10716/comment-page-1#comment-131390 Reader's Write Tue, 12 Dec 2006 03:30:54 +0000 #comment-131390 The focus should be on protecting the rights of the songwriters (not just the publishers) and the performers (not the legacy recording industry labels). Yes, and forget the balance between the middleman, the music industry, and the people. Only the limited time monopoly interest of the creator artists and the unlimited time interest of the people need to be protected, not by the music industry or the music industry contaminated courts, but by the people themselves throught their political representatives. The middleman's method of distributing payola laced plastic has its days counted because of technology and environmental considerations. There is, therefore, no need to protect the industry from its coming natural death. Besides, the music inductry plays dirty in everyway it can. If anything its death should be accelerated. This is what copyrights reform should be all about. Rafael Venegas http://www.gvenegas.com The focus should be on protecting the rights of the songwriters (not just the publishers) and the performers (not the legacy recording industry labels).

Yes, and forget the balance between the middleman, the music industry, and the people.

Only the limited time monopoly interest of the creator artists and the unlimited time interest of the people need to be protected, not by the music industry or the music industry contaminated courts, but by the people themselves throught their political representatives.

The middleman’s method of distributing payola laced plastic has its days counted because of technology and environmental considerations. There is, therefore, no need to protect the industry from its coming natural death.

Besides, the music inductry plays dirty in everyway it can.

If anything its death should be accelerated.

This is what copyrights reform should be all about.

Rafael Venegas
http://www.gvenegas.com

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