Comments on: Sony BMG p2p demos

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Sat, 31 Mar 2007 22:46:15 +0000

… is so evil. They not only infect computers of loyal customers with “rootkit malware virus troyan” shit, those evil labels will defraud you over your own royalties.
Ask the Bay City Rolers!
http://www.p2pnet.net/story/11723

So do NOT offer those greedy dinosaurs, like Ged Doherty that are to stupid to find a real job to earn money with real hard physical work, to take your creativity to fill THEIR pockets with.

Market your creative talent yourself via a small website and a micropayment button or use sites like http://www.amiestreet.com so you can make sure you get money for your creative work, and you don’t risk that informed customers will spit on you once they find out that you have teamed with the evil Music labels that sue children!

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Sat, 31 Mar 2007 21:55:31 +0000

As I was reading the article all I could think about was the rootkit thing and how this so obviously sounds like a ripoff for artists and a trap for consumers, both.

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Sat, 31 Mar 2007 21:52:18 +0000

“… die labels die…” “… die labels die…” “… die labels die…”

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Sat, 31 Mar 2007 20:28:25 +0000

Demos? or would it be more accurate to say they are looking to rip the artist off yet again? How hard would it be to record the best of bands’ offerings and come up with something similar while never actually signing a single contract?

The cartels have went from ceasing to groom artists for the long haul, to wanting to cherry pick the best of smaller label stables, and it looks now as if they want to drop the smaller labels entirely and get to the promising artists before those bands have a chance to get signed anywhere. It sort of looks like they are looking for fresh ideas to improve the staleness of their present offerings.

Given the past actions of Sony, I wouldn’t trust them with a demolished car straight out of the parts junk yard. This article just smells of cheese wafting off the mouse trap.

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Sat, 31 Mar 2007 18:02:54 +0000

What a suck – he makes it like hes the one making it better for artists – of course – now they have to share their only REAL source of revenue with the labels they are much better off NOT – artists only ever survived off concerts and merchandising – in 95% of cases they never saw a cent from the lables, so how kind of them to now eat in to the only actual source of income most of them ever had!!!
If they would just bring in a user licesnign mechanism for p2p they would recover the money they ‘invest’ and leave the poor artist alone and allow them to keep using this as a source of revenue – the problem is actual artists – I mean the ones that create and not just the bullshit ones are smart enough to know that this is a worse deal than before which means the lables will only be signing the singing budgie types and using their payola to ensure the world is inundated with their hollow screaching… die labels die…