p2p news / p2pnet: US band Ten Mile Tide is posting mp3s of the tracks on its new album for free, “in observance of the anniversary” of the Big Four Organized Music cartel’s bizarre sue ‘em all marketing campaign through which it’s trying to force its own customers into buying low-quality, high-priced corporate ‘product’.

“We’re celebrating music and sharing is an integral part of that,” says guitarist Jason Munning. “We’re going to post all of the MP3s from our just-released album for free on our website and we are encouraging other bands we know to doing something similar.

“The culture of music has always been about sharing with people, whether making mixed tapes, burning CDs, or swapping MP3s. File-sharing has taken it to another level, but it’s the same principle, now through the Internet.”

Ten Mile Tide and Avril Lavigne, Sarah McLachlan and Barenaked ladies have a lot in common.

The Canadian artists are part of a new band – a band of musicians determined to fight p2p lawsuits, statutory damages, DRM and anti-circumvention legislation.

“Fans who share music are not thieves or pirates,” they state unequivocally as members of the Canadian Music Creators Coalition.

“Sharing music has been happening for decades.”

Also See:
state unequivocally – ‘Fans who share music aren’t thieves’, April 26, 2006

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