Me too!

Have a look: http://www.soundnet.co.uk

Its a .uk because many of the features I’m hoping to provide will be more aimed at U.K. artists but anyone is welcome to join in.

I’m actually looking for a graphic designer and someone who can help me with getting my privacy policy and ToS sorted out. If you can help, please get in touch. My email address is on the site.

I’m a musician too! I’m putting together an album, and SELF-PROMOTING IT.

I’m working on a website… Still in the works. I’ll let P2PNET.NET know when it’s ready. It should be real SWEET!

Anyhow, back to practicing and recording…

There are plenty of really talented people out there who make music because they enjoy it, not because they want to make money from it. However, the internet provides a good opportunity for them to make money anyway. Those willing to pay probably will pay (if they have the opportunity), those who aren’t won’t.

I think what needs to happen is the removal of record labels from the music scene.

Many of my friends are in bands and often they are managing their own finances, finding their own places to record, doing their own distribution, doing their own promotion, organising their own gigs, etc. Since the internet allows for promotion to be done for no cost at all (other than the cost of an internet connection), there wouldn’t be any need for a label to do any of this.

In theory…

But semantics aside, we started talking about something interesting. I was telling him that movie trailers were “cunningly” deceptive in their protrayal of the movie plot and its contents.

We all agreed that deceiving the public in commercial operations is illegal, yet the RIAA / MPAA still do it. Then we started thinking —- they do it BECAUSE THEY CAN. So then we saw a startling similarity, people file share BECAUSE THEY CAN.

So it all boils down to have the ‘ability / power’ to do what you want. Hence, we see THE RECENT BASH of LAWS BEING REWRITTEN and POLICE NOT PERFORMING THEIR DUTY, but working for the MPAA / RIAA (on Taxpayers money) —- all in the attempt to increase their “power.”

It’s really simple what is happening if you take the time to think.

Actually I don’t engage in filesharing for economic reasons, but because I enjoy sharing my music with my peers.

As has been mentioned in another article recently, they are sueing those most likely to buy and buy more than other people with the p2p infringement cases. In otherwords they are sueing their most ardent music lovers. Those most likely to go for several albums and not just one song or two. The ever greedy are undercutting their own best customers in an effort to stem the tide of this p2p because they are not getting every penny. Expect later to hear how poorly the industry is doing, once again because of piracy. Never expect them to own up that their own business practices are taking them down the drain.

For now they are proudly trumpeting that they have x amount of “legal sites” to buy music from. However they are not telling you how many are turning from those same sites because the product those customers are buying in the end lead to sever customer dissatisfaction with the limiting of what they can do with those purchases. I suspect it is also a way they are attempting to remove some of the heat over the latest round with payolla scandle. Of course they will tell you it is the end of the month and it is time for a new round of law suits to come out. The timing of this one is most suspicious…