French readers can surf to eucd.info to know more on this (sad) issue.

In 1977 the Bee Gees came up with a sound that had a beat to it that everyone could dance to. It was dubbed Disco. The music industry suddenly became the Disco industry and soon, even the Bee Gees couldn’t put out an album that didn’t sound like all the rest. Fortunately, the industry was rescued by artists and fans who loved home grown rock music.

I, like you, don’t download any new music. It seems to me that music just isn’t fun anymore. So, I like you, am just rebuilding my LP collection. I consider what I am doing stealing, because about 75% of the music I previously bought and the other 25% I see as a claim to my musical heritage.

Maybe p2pnet could add a picture for i2phex and a link? Like it has for bearshare and blubster.

I just don’t consider their additions to be of benefit to anyone but themselves. Paying for a manufactured group of “pretty people” to lipsync crappy formulaic product enhanced by overproduced video and presented by a well oiled hype machine isn’t on my agenda. Neither is ensuring that your fat salary continues to be paid.

Sorry guys - I’m not buying your stuff but I am downloading bits and pieces of it. Mostly copies of my old LP collection and maybe a few new songs that my kids seem to like…

Then in all fairness, that should have been made clear on the axcess site.

There is a lot of similarity between this and the story in the Mercury News which carried a story in which a student in Texas also made unqualified and inaccurate statements apparently on behalf of the music industry.

The story is here - http://p2pnet.net/story/6393

Morg

Nor do they have a sense of your music being worth what is being charged now for it. For substanard product, raising the price won’t make it more valuable. Instead it will make it less appealing to the masses.

I don’t want it now. You don’t have to worry about me downloading it; truely I can’t stand what I hear today. Maybe the worlds music values passed me by when I wasn’t looking. Be that as it may, there isn’t a market out there for me. I already have all the old stuff that I am interested in. I had 30 some years to buy it before DRM raised its head. The one thing I have that no future purchasers will have is the ablility to build a library. I don’t mean buying in mass all at one time. I mean that formats have changed over the years. My library is crossplatform transferrable. Newer buyers with todays market won’t be.

Rather than continue to try to replace the library at every format change they will drop the idea as being to expensive.

That’s only one reason why music doesn’t have a future with the cartels. Cartels insist on the DRM and I hear no one speaking up for DRM as being a great thing from the customers side. Instead I hear everything from what a rip off, to I’m gonna quit buying and start downloading, to how do I circumvent it? But nowhere are customers saying it is a great new idea or product. By all means continue to tee your customers off, evidently you can’t get rid of them fast enough with the law suits.

This pirates are stealing your stuff is only make believe in your minds as far as I am concerned.
Do I visit p2ps? Yes.
Do I download today’s music? No.
Do I download yesterdays music? No.

I was serious about the lack of interest in todays music. So am I about the rest of this message.

AXcess News supports the students in carrying their stories (which is disclosed at the botton as being a Scripps Howard Foundation source).

Though we have received quite a bit of comment on this article. A Hong Kong-based entertainment magazine is writing a counter story about the amount of pirating still going on there, which we have encouraged them to write for us an exclusive. We expect to post that story in about a week. I encourage your readers to watch AXcess News for that publication and by all means, feel free to counter-comment - pro or con. http://www.axcessnews.com

Eric Stevenson
Editor
AXcess News