Copyright stops Big Music from selling music
p2pnet news view | P2P | Music:- Norway joins Sweden in anti-P2P move, was the headline to a p2pnet story, yesterday.
The study looked at almost 2,000 online music users, all over the age of 15, observes Crosbie Fitch, quoting The Guardian and going on »»»
“Researchers found that those who downloaded “free” music – whether from lawful or seedy sources – were also 10 times more likely to pay for music. This would make music pirates the industry’s largest audience for digital sales.”
Some pundits suggest that it’s only competitive dynamics in the music industry that prevent it from enabling people to get music in the way they want, and to pay for it in the way they want. That if they knocked some heads together and cooperated a little more they could solve their current crisis.
I think that’s way off the mark and trivialising what is a far more fundamental and deep rooted intransigence. It is copyright that prevents the music industry from selling music.
People want to pay for music, but they don’t want to pay for copies.
Unfortunately, the record industry bourgeoisie believes it should be responsible for paying musicians for music, and that the passive consumer proletariat should pay for copies and damn well like it.
If you have a monopoly on manufacture and distribution of copies (that cost nothing to distribute or make – in the digital case) then you’re looking at extremely lucrative prospects.
It’s no wonder the idea of the purchaser bypassing the copy-manufacturer to procure music directly from its source (the musician) is so terrifying it’s simply inconceivable, and despite evidence of it happening right under their noses, the copyright cartel simply cannot see it.
Indeed, anyone who has hardwired copyright into their cultural mindset is similarly blinded. Only youngsters generally retain the mental faculty to perceive the true nature of cultural exchange.
Today’s pirates are tomorrow’s patrons, says Crosbie, adding:
“And tomorrow, publishers will be looked back on as misanthropic cotton farmers.”
So true.
Crosbie Fitch – Digital Productions
[Fitch says he's researching and developing revenue mechanisms and business models for producers of digital art and in the process, 'has discovered that copyright is not only an ineffective anachronism, but is 'unethical and unconstitutional'.]
p2pnet – Norway joins Sweden in anti-P2P move, April, 2009
The Guardian – Study finds pirates 10 times more likely to buy music, April 21, 2009
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April 23rd, 2009 at 12:48 pm
SPREAD THE BOYCOTT! TELL YOUR FIREND, YOUR RELATIVE, YOUR COLLEAGUE!
No CD no DVD no download no movie theater and no cable until all the corporate parasites are out of business.
Companies to boycott:
Vivendi Universal,
Sony BMG,
Warner Bros,
MGM,
Columbia Pictures,
20th Century Fox.
EMI
Also use the RIAA radar since these pigs have a lots of subsidiaries:
http://www.riaaradar.com/
April 30th, 2009 at 10:12 am
“I think that’s way off the mark and trivialising what is a far more fundamental and deep rooted intransigence. It is copyright that prevents the music industry from selling music.”
Crosbie Fitch has been “researching revenue mechanisms” for as long as the web has been going.
But mostly he likes posting misanthropic rants about how copyright is evil – from first thing in the morning to late, late at night. Crosbie is always at his keyboard.
Clever boy, Crosbie!