Comments on: Report slams record labels

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Sat, 01 Apr 2006 18:49:10 +0000

“Doesn’t every new thing sound like crap to the previous generation?”

Wrong argument. Perhaps you could argue that the arts (production and tastes) have not improved over time and that it has only changed/evolved.

That said, however, Art has become a commodity marketed by methods that were not formerly used widely. Just to name a few, the purchase of art critics and art proffesors, newspaper columnists, radio payola, songwriter to artist kickback, artist to gallery kickback, etc.

When sculpture became the art of welding twisted metal and painting was a matter of splashing paint into a canvass and music bacame matter of dancing with sexually suggeted moves and good looks we should have realized that distributed art was actually a dead art that simply overshadowed the good art that noboby supports and made a lot of money for the fake artists.

In a way, art is dead, thanks to the copyright cartels, mostly.

Rafael Venegas
http://www.gvenegas.com

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Sat, 01 Apr 2006 05:32:19 +0000

At any given point in the history of pop music as we know it 90% has been/is disposable crap. It’s the same now as it was “back in the day”.

“How much is that doggy in the window?”…

“Havin’ My Baby”…

“I ain’t sayin’ she’s a gold digger”…

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Fri, 31 Mar 2006 16:27:49 +0000

your quote:

“I don’t think file sharers and counterfeiters should be equated – there is a significant difference between the two,” Geist responded, and on the question of whether or not a download equals a lost sale, “I don’t think anybody would argue that it does,” he said.

your first statement about filesharers/counterfeiters is spot on. but the second part is just wrong.

the movie, music, software cartels and others have always claimed that a file downloaded through free p2p is a lost sale. this claim has been repeated time and again through their press releases, court documents, and by the puppet government officials and lamescream media outlets they control.

it has also been reported here on p2pnet and other concerned websites numerous times.

this claim is the basis for their illegal searches and court cases they’ve been orchestrating around the globe. if you don’t think that “anybody would argue that it does” (equal a lost sale), please look around p2pnet and other websites and i’m sure you’ll find this claim repeated quite often by the RIAA, MPAA and others.

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Fri, 31 Mar 2006 07:08:23 +0000

Doesn’t every new thing sound like crap to the previous generation?

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Fri, 31 Mar 2006 05:33:39 +0000

Designer songs, designer groups
hey! anybody can rap
ya just jump but don’t crap
keep your toes tapp’n
baby now your rapp’n
those execs get their cash
the P2Ps they try & crash
money, lawyers, another hired gun
their com’n at ya
ya betta be a nun
no your not safe ’cause they is God
got all the real music for your pod
just throw em your money
let them f___ your honey
Big music is over and their artists are done eh?

o.f.

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Fri, 31 Mar 2006 04:40:33 +0000

… or 4 minutes and 27 seconds of “mutha fu***uh, ni***er, slap that b**ch, she’s a nasty ho’ …….” and other such erudite lyrics.

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Fri, 31 Mar 2006 03:55:45 +0000

Did they ever think that it just might be because today’s music sucks. Since when does repeatedly spelling “banana” or claiming “my milkshake brings all the boys to the yard” constitute good music?