In the near (very near) future, bandwidth on the internet, combined with terabyte storage capacities will mean that people will not only be able to download one 4.5 Mb Mp3 or one 60 Mb album or even a 956 Mb discography, but they will be able to download every song made in the last 20 years within a few minutes.
What on earth are the RI** or MP* going to do then? They are a lost group with a dead-end future. You can’t fight the progress of technology. You’d be fighting the very spirit of mankind’s creativeness. Good luck. Power to the music lovers. mz

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“As the search thing was flashing, all of a sudden I got this chill of ‘What am I going to be if we’re not on there? How much would that suck?’” said Rapp. “It came up and there were half a dozen files of ‘I Wanna Be a Lifeguard’ up there to be traded and I was relieved. Here’s a song that’s 20 years old and it’s still got viability, people are still listening to it, and that’s when I realized the real beauty of the file-sharing services.”

The Cartel doesn’t want you to know if the song is good or not they just want your money. How many times I can attest to the latter part of that statement and want to add, artist that I knew, had songs that I didn’t know they did and threw p2p found them and went out and purchased the CD years after they have fallen from the charts.

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“The music industry pays huge amounts of money to Big Champagne,” said Rapp, “which monitors peer-to-peer sharing and gives them a more accurate view of the popularity of their music than their own surveys do. They see what songs and what artists are being traded illegitimately and it’s the best marketing research that they can buy. They’re paying for this market research of illegal file usage and using it to make their own marketing decisions, which is a bizarre sort of synergy.”

Exposure is the number one part of p2p but the Cartel has some artist convinced that p2p is stealing them blind. Local radio stations in my area are limited to 2 stations battling it out for the hip-hop crowed, 2; top 50 of classic rock, 1; soft rock station, 1; easy listing (elevator music), 1; talk radio that doesn’t cover my interest, 2; country stations of which 1 only play the top 20 over and over, and a dozen different language speaking stations. MTV VH1 and BET are not the format they used to be and want me to watch something other than music videos.

So where do I fall in all of this? Nowhere. I like House style music, which is, aired nowhere here. I generally look to find a talk show, Bob and Tom or a Howard Stern type format. So what does the Cartel tell those artists that aren’t getting coverage in my area? The artist themselves are being short changed by the same people that claim to be helping them to make a living.

After being a DJ for 14 yrs, I have a vast taste for music from 1945 to present day music. My son’s would have never have heard Big Band music if it wasn’t for my DJ’in and now search for it on p2p and believe the same holds true for many that download stuff they’ve never heard of just to sample it. In my area, I don’t care how much they advertised, promoted, or whatever, Garth Brooks would have never sold as many albums if the youngsters had not downloaded a few songs and shared them with their friends. In general they listen to country and hip-hop but by being able to sample through p2p have developed a taste for other styles that they have gone out and purchased.

As Rapp confirms. its not about recovering loss revenue, its all about the publicity. What does that do for the artist they represent? Nada, and the sooner the artist wake up and realize their being taken, the more money they’ll have in their own pockets. It really is time for the artist to step into the new millennium and look at a new way of marketing their talents.

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“It’s not piracy in the classic sense,” said Rapp. “These are people who are downloading music purely for their own pleasure and certainly not for their financial benefit other than the fact they’re not paying for it. This isn’t someone who’s going and making 10,000 copies of the new Britney Spears CD and trying to sell them on a street corner, this is certainly not that.”

AMEN BROTHER! In a survey on p2punite.org shows many people who download still go out and purchase the stuff to their liking.

One more question. Why doesn’t CBS, NBC ABC, Fox or any of the major networks cover the real story on p2p? 1; I’m guessing that lawsuits make bigger headlines and 2; they would probably loose their sponsors. Sucks don’t it.

Might not serve a purpose, other than letting them know they’ve extreamly pissed off people, and that the public is now going to cause them as much trouble as they caused us! >; )

Morg

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