ROFL.
keep on rentin’.
it’s the ‘right thing to do … for the label, and the
label alone.
Keep spending money on something that will never be yours.
Keep throwing them your cash for something THEY decide
what you can do with.
You know .. Strangers deciding for you how you will be
allowed to use what you pay for

Smart

” If a Canadian law someday say’s 100% without a doubt P2P downloading is 100% legal ”

P2P downloading is 100% legal.
Copyright infringement is illegal.
They are not one in the same, as the industry would
like people to believe.
You know, like the industry would have people believe
the the Copyright holder is the artist, ( it’s not, the
rights holder is nearly always the label, therefore the
LABEL, not the artist, has the sole right to the cash )

Use frostwire with comeplete safety and comfort, as long
as you don’t trade the RIAA stuff.

Don’t DL RIAA stuff.
Don’t buy it
If you must have it, buy used so they don’t get another dime from it.

P2P, like the VCR before it, is legal.

I could use Frostire, my wife does all the time for P2P, but I just don’t feel comfotable with it and if I am not going to enjoy the music I get from P2P and or enjoy it why bother?

If a Canadian law someday say’s 100% without a doubt P2P downloading is 100% legal because of a tax or levy and no one not even the CRIA can dispute it I will be all over P2P 24-7. Until then I will use/buy/rent “corporate product”.

You can still boycott, thereby not financially supporting
the current corrupt industry and STILL get what you like,
as the article points out ….

1. buy used
This will get you what you want, and not pu another dime
in their pockets .. nice.
You can still get exactly what you want .. since you just
can’t help yourself .. without supporting them.

” As someone who plays music if an artist I like is with a major label I respect them enough to pay the people they have CHOSEN to represent/distrubute/promote their music. maybe they don’t get as much as they should from those people but I prfer to get their music through the people they choose to help them get it to me. ”

LOL, now you’re just being an ass

As an ‘artist’ you also know exactly how little they actually get.
As an artist you know exactly how impossible it is to audit
them on your behalf.
As an artist you know how difficult it is for the lables to
‘find’ you when payday comes.
As an artist, you realize that their ‘contract’ is truly indentured servitude, and from the moment you sign it
nothing you create will ever be under your control.
As an artist, you realize that once you can’t even voice
your own displeasure at what they are doing, without
fear of punishment.

Respect ???
The Labels have proven that they have no respect for their
own artists ( cooking their books so the artists never get
whats coming to them etc .. ),
no respect for their purchasers ( software that not only removes your fair use rights of copying for personal use, but
potentially ruins your PC – see Sony Rootkit ),
no respect for the fans or the constitution ( suing people without evidence, and bypassing due process )

This list goes on for a very long time, and is quite easy for
even a caveman to research and verify, if they want to know
the reality of the ‘Biz’ you respect so much. New readers here can simply search the archives for articles relating
to just how shitty the people that are paying you to ‘turf’
here are.

So, as pointed out in the article,

If you really must have something the RIAA is pushing,
use one of the methods outlined in the article to keep
yourself happy, and the RIAA wallets dry.

We, the consumer, are the ones who are in TRUE control ONLY *IF* we TAKE that control and USE it __COLLECTIVELY__!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

The RIAA and those who back them ALL need to be taught a great big le$$on!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I say make this boycott PERMENANT and that include$ *DOWNLOAD$*!!!!!!! For the boycott to GENUINELY send the intended me$$age there MUST be SOLIDARITY among us, The Consumer!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Download the music you want using one of the p2p Application such as limewire, utorrent or mute.

And send some money DIRECTLY to your favorite artist. But please please please do not send money to these parasites! I you do the artist will get zip!

Also this is just to let you know that RIAA artist are out of fashion because they are no longer cool. Try to find some artists among the indies. Many of them beat the crap out of most RIAA drone! It is easy for them since most RIAA artists suck big time such as Britney slut trying to use moral depravation to retain some public.

By By RIAA pigs!

We are the customers and we decide who get the money and who don’t. Sorry! Not You!

I too, have made MY choice. Which is not to assist the cartels in this idiotic methology of suing their potential customer base.

You want to support them for your vested interests. I don’t want to support them for their methods of business, overpriced garbage, and lack of hearing new choices of selections on public airwaves. Not to mention the blatent hijacking of copywrite laws to near effectively end public domain. Nothing we hear or see in our lifetime will become public domain. Add to it that DRM doesn’t quit with the end of the copywrite terms.

There is a whole list of items I don’t approve of that link straight back to big music. I chose not to give them my money because I don’t agree with their business practices, just as you chose to continue to fund them.

They never understand that they need us but we don’t need them

there is a reasonable fee that can be paid to SOCAN for all sorts of music use in public in canada.

i.e in our case singing to karaoke, playing cover versions and playing background music. 3 differnt charges and our coffee shop is small so we will only be charged the minunum in each case.

it’s not expensive to be legal

http://www.socan.ca/jsp/en/resources/tariffs.jsp

That’s why collective licensing is a problem.
I’d be paying THEM to download what you want to
share with your audience.

Thats great.
And by buying the RIAA cd’s you are helping to finance their ability to sue you for doing just that, without paying them a ‘performance’ fee.

Do they do that now .. not always, not yet.
They are busy trying to seal off any possibility of acts
like yours of distributing their music to many people
using an effificient P2P system.

Downloading RIAA stuff does not hurt them a bit and they know it.
The risk of someone like you reaching a mass audience,
becoming popular, and outselling them is what they fear.
They want you , and others like you off the internet, unless you pay them a toll.

That’s the reason for the boycott.

To show them that artists AND the purchasing public do NOT NEED THEM anymore.

It’s not a matter of strangers telling you what to like.
It’s many musicians, artists, and other member of the
artistic community asking you to think about what your
purchase dollar is financing and supporting.

If we were to put out a self made CD for others to sell we would release public domain and originals. when we practice and or play for dances/in our coffee shop we play almost always cover versions of popular songs people have generally heard.
we enjoy playing famous covers live and people enjoy the songs because they know them

try this one lol

no wonder

Of course, you realize, by continuing to support the RIAA(cria) you are helping to eliminate for all time your
beloved public domain ? .. right ?
You seem pretty willing to salute and say ‘Yes Sir to them without question.

No one is telling you you can’t, after all, you’re the boss of you, we are trying to show you why you shouldn’t support them … educate ..as it were.

For a musician, you’re pretty dense .. hoping for a chance at indentured servitude ?