Comments on: ‘Shut down guitar sites’

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Thu, 24 Aug 2006 19:14:50 +0000

When AMD reverse engineered Intels Micro It could be said they “reduced sales” for Intel. If someone copies a songbook that is stealing, but if they figure out the song themselves and post the tab I don’t see that as being any different from reverse engineering.

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Wed, 23 Aug 2006 00:24:06 +0000

I was walking down the street the other day and whistling a tune when an RIAA lawyer walked up to me and handed me a “cease and desist” letter because I was infringing copyright.

Then I went home and sang some Audioslave to my ferrets, and the RIAA called me on the phone and verbally harassed me and told me I was infringing copyright.

Then I went to Best Buy and turned on one of their stereos to listen to it and some guys in black fatigues beat me up, took me into a back room and interrogated me, then told me I owed them $3000 for infringing copyright.

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Mon, 21 Aug 2006 23:08:51 +0000

What a scam!

Music publishers really publish a very small percentage of the music that songwriters have given them to manage. When someone is interested in the sheet music, to do a recording, for example, none is available and the recording cannot be done.

Yet these publishers tell songwriters that their music will be “published”. They lie, just to get ther lifetime assignment to the songs, for nothing.

Now they object to others that do the work that publishers have abandoned.

Speaking from personal experience with publishers that “publisher” is the last thing they are and songwriters who music is not published to their dismay.

Rafael Venegas
http://www.gvenegas.com

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Mon, 21 Aug 2006 22:21:38 +0000

I hope that the artists these boneheads suck the life out of… er, I mean “represent” realise just how much they [MPA,RIAA] are alienating real music fans. There is a LOT of music out there produced outside the mainstream “big four” quagmire. These MPA-RIAA greed-machines are forcing us to look beyond the garden walls of “big music”. When the public figures out that there’s a whole world of music out there that big music does not have it’s ugly hooks into they will move on en mass and never look back.

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Mon, 21 Aug 2006 22:13:48 +0000

Why don’t they just stop making musical instuments all together! This is getting sooooooo __ASSINIGN__!!! All **AA Nazis need to be gassed!!! That’s all there is to it…