Music – outside the system
p2pnet.net News:- "… when downloading started everything seemed exciting again. We talked about how we could do rock n roll in an adult way.. old guys doing new, outside the system." Mick Jones, Mojo magazine, June 2005
Carbon/Silicon, made up of former members of The Clash and Generation X, want all their recordings online – for free – and are actively encouraging bootlegging or filming of their gigs, says the BBC.
“They even attack the current waves of litigation surrounding illegally copied music in their song Gangs Of England.”
Tony James, formally of Sigue Sigue Sputnik and Generation X, who formed the group with ex-Clash guitarist Mick Jones, told BBC World Service’s The Music Biz programme, "What we’re talking about here is fans who are sharing music.
"It’s just like you did when you were young, when you made a cassette of your favourite tracks you’d love, and would give it to a friend and say ‘listen to this.’
"Everyone’s going to say, ‘hang on – if they’ve got it already, why are they going to buy the record?’ But what we find is actually, people really like buying the records’."
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BBC – ‘Copy our music’ urges rock band, July 15, 2005
July 18th, 2005 at 2:34 pm
I’m being drawn by a mysterious force to BUY this bands music. And i’ve never even heard of them. There is a God of Common Sense…Hallelujah!
July 18th, 2005 at 3:29 pm
The way I see it,
It must be a so cool to see your music actively available all over the place instead of being tucked away by the major labels when the next new act comes along. I mean, time is short so you might as well enjoy this thrill while you’re alive.
July 18th, 2005 at 6:58 pm
Nobody is as valuable to the major lables as a dead superstar who’s catalog they own.
July 18th, 2005 at 8:44 pm
Many have said over and over that p2p is nothing but a huge, free, advertisement for the cartels. Many surveys have pointed to the idea that because the public was exposed to the music on p2p that they then went and bought the music to have the higher quality and the artwork that comes with the purchased work and is not included in the downloadable version.
It is further coincidence that when the RIAA sued Napster out of existence, mysteriously the purchasing started to slow down and the major labels experienced a large drop in purchased music. Just coincidence, eh?
Many bands have experimented with the idea of releasing part or all of their latest projects on line with permission to freely download what is offered and a request to share it. The band Heart had great responce in this method in selling their last album. Almost all independent bands do this in some sort of way. Amazingly, while the cartels are just barely making it (to hear them tell it), independent bands are doing great during the same time period. A heyday of music and buying that has been unequalled in previous times. Of course the cartels have always ignored independents, treating them as if they never existed.
What the labels really fear here is being left out of the buying equation. They don’t get their slice of the pie if the band leaves them out. We the customer, don’t have to support a small town’s population of vampires, all sucking off the artist and raising the prices of the music we want to own. Mostly, the indies don’t use DRM and so the customer isn’t locked into limitations with how to use what they purchased. It is music as you were always used to buying, with the conditions you were used to. Even more amazing is that the prices reflect the lack of leeches!
This is the future of music and the cartels are afraid. Deathly afraid for a reason. They aren’t needed to get the music from the band to the customer. If they can’t control the distribution process then there is no need for them and they are in a dead business. All I can say is welcome to the world of the dinosaurs!!!