Home Taping Kills Music
p2p news / p2pnet: Here’s an email we had from our friend Sandro in Quebec, Canada. In it he says, “I was reading a comment on Michael Geist’s site where a user by the name of Dwight Williams writes:
‘I still have an old vinyl LP with the logo ‘Home Taping Kills Music’ on the back of the main cardstock sleeve. Some attitudes do seem to take a few decades to change, don’t they’?”
So, “You have got to get a hold of this guy and ask him to provide a scan of this insert,” says Sandro. “An image is worth a thousand words when it comes to fighting industry propaganda.”
Say no more ; )
But the Big Four record labels aren’t alone.
Still on the subject of wholly illusory dangers to the entertainment cartels, in Circumventing Competition: The Perverse Consequences of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act, policy analyst Timothy B. Lee harks back to 1982 when then MPAA (Motion Picture Association of America) boss Jack Valenti warned congress:
The, “[VCR] is to the American film producer and the American public as the Boston strangler is to the woman home alone.”
Also, “You simply cannot live in a marketplace where there is one unleashed animal in that marketplace, unlicensed.
“It would no longer be a marketplace; it would be a kind of a jungle, where this one unlicensed instrument is capable of devouring all that people had invested in and labored over and brought forth as a film or a television program, and, in short, laying waste to the orderly distribution of this product.”
Valenti is gone, but his successor, China Dan Glickman, also waxes lyrical on the subject of the clear and present dangers to his employers, the multi-billion-dollar Big Six movies studios. They are, Glickman claims, beset on all sides by men, women and children who are threatening the very fabric of Hollywood.
He’s perfectly correct. But that’s good, not bad.
Sandro made the FightGoliath url available to p2pnet for Patti Santagelo’s fund raising campaign.
(Thanks Sandro, and thanks Michael)
March 22nd, 2006 at 8:36 pm
What date and which album was this “Home Taping is Killing Music and It’s Illegal” logo on? These industry hacks are side tracking two fundamental rules:
1. The road to consumers’ wallets is through freedom not restriction and litigation.
2. Learn from from the past, don’t repeat your mistakes.
March 22nd, 2006 at 9:40 pm
I feel like I just got an inside joke.
March 22nd, 2006 at 9:42 pm
LMFAO so that’s where they got their logo. I smell another legal ‘threat’
March 22nd, 2006 at 11:11 pm
I smell another “we live in Sweden so get fucked” response on TPB’s legal threats page.
March 23rd, 2006 at 4:54 am
http://www.downhillbattle.org << cool shirts with a variation on the same theme.
“home taping is killing the music industry…. and it’s FUN!”
I actually was wearing this shirt and got into a productive, very informational converation with two older men at this retail store. very cool.
March 23rd, 2006 at 4:10 pm
“Home taping kills music”
The opposite, “Home taping saves music” is the truth.
Home taping saved this song (Cisne azul – Blue swan), as the only recording that is available to the world is a home recording copy:
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I can say the same thing for hundreds of other songs that my father composerd and my family owns now.
Is this not proof that that copying to tape, cd, hard disk, ets, and sharing actually saves culture, including music, art, literature, scientific knowledge, etc.
BTW, the reason the song is not in any recording ever sold is because the author was (and still is) blacklisted by the music cartel members and the organizations they buy off through payola, which now includes the judges. All because the author was a founder of a songwriter union.
Rafael Venegas
http://www.gvenegas.com
March 23rd, 2006 at 11:36 pm
The, “[Jack 'ass' Valanti is to children with internet access] as [Dubya Bush is to detainees not getting gang raped]“
March 24th, 2006 at 5:20 am
Mr. Valenti also strongly implied in his Congressional Testimony that the only people who would really want a VCR were copyright infringers, producers of beastiality pornography and others with lower moral standards.
March 24th, 2006 at 10:05 am
“Mr. Valenti also strongly implied in his Congressional Testimony that the only people who would really want a VCR were copyright infringers, producers of beastiality pornography and others with lower moral standards.”
It really beats me as to why Mr. Valenti would say that only the copyright cartels wanted VCRs.
Rafael Venegas
http://www.gvenegas.com