Rants on iTunes and the Music industry
RIAA is suing its customers...
Kazaa sells your computer's extra processing power
and Apple!?!
Don't get me wrong u apple zombie's...
The itunes software is incredible and the ipod is a work of art...
BUT...
Apple had (i guess still has) the opportunity to do something great... a chance to re-invent the entire music industry. The chance to create a system where an artist is rewarded for his creativity/talent instead of his marketability/promotability.
Apple has failed the artists. Apple has always been artist-friendly, from the graphic designer to the painter-glassblower. But, Out of the $1 you spend to download a song, only 11 cents goes to the artist. Goodness... There are no distribution costs and for the independent artist there are no promotion costs.
Apple is in the driver's seat here. Sure, the record industry owns the rights to all the songs. But even without the rights to the songs, Apple and the ipod would still be extremely popular. People would still find their favorite songs somewhere and would look to itunes for fresh new artists they really WANT to support. The Record industry on the other hand would be left with continuosly decreasing cd sales and its most promising cash cow of litigating its customers.
Instead Apple has given an extra crutch to the RIAA and the music industry to remain in the status quo.
If Apple wasn't in such a corporate-mode it could support the garage band. Take a bigger piece of the pie for itself and give more of it to the artists and consumers.
1) Allow only artist owned material on itunes (until RIAA agrees to take less)
2) lower prices to download - would you really spend the time looking for places to pirate a song if it only cost 50 cents?
3) Empower people to become creative entreprenuers --
a) artists promote themselves and each other
b) enable easier licensing of songs and samples for dj's and mixologists.
c) enable licensed re-selling for areas lacking internet and computers
Eventually the RIAA becomes unnecessary. All those folks in their offices would lose their jobs, hopefully they could start bands to support themselves.
A more eloquent version (http://www.downhillbattle.org/itunes/)
Until this all happens (don't) use these sites to find mp3s:
http://fionasforum.com/Stairway/
MP3 SEARCH SITES
Exploseek
Google
Alltheweb
Zoekmp3
Italia Online Search
Sharetraxx
Audiofind
SingingFish Media Search
Altavista Search
Kazaa sells your computer's extra processing power
and Apple!?!
Don't get me wrong u apple zombie's...
The itunes software is incredible and the ipod is a work of art...
BUT...
Apple had (i guess still has) the opportunity to do something great... a chance to re-invent the entire music industry. The chance to create a system where an artist is rewarded for his creativity/talent instead of his marketability/promotability.
Apple has failed the artists. Apple has always been artist-friendly, from the graphic designer to the painter-glassblower. But, Out of the $1 you spend to download a song, only 11 cents goes to the artist. Goodness... There are no distribution costs and for the independent artist there are no promotion costs.
Apple is in the driver's seat here. Sure, the record industry owns the rights to all the songs. But even without the rights to the songs, Apple and the ipod would still be extremely popular. People would still find their favorite songs somewhere and would look to itunes for fresh new artists they really WANT to support. The Record industry on the other hand would be left with continuosly decreasing cd sales and its most promising cash cow of litigating its customers.
Instead Apple has given an extra crutch to the RIAA and the music industry to remain in the status quo.
If Apple wasn't in such a corporate-mode it could support the garage band. Take a bigger piece of the pie for itself and give more of it to the artists and consumers.
1) Allow only artist owned material on itunes (until RIAA agrees to take less)
2) lower prices to download - would you really spend the time looking for places to pirate a song if it only cost 50 cents?
3) Empower people to become creative entreprenuers --
a) artists promote themselves and each other
b) enable easier licensing of songs and samples for dj's and mixologists.
c) enable licensed re-selling for areas lacking internet and computers
Eventually the RIAA becomes unnecessary. All those folks in their offices would lose their jobs, hopefully they could start bands to support themselves.
A more eloquent version (http://www.downhillbattle.org/itunes/)
Until this all happens (don't) use these sites to find mp3s:
http://fionasforum.com/Stairway/
MP3 SEARCH SITES
Exploseek
Alltheweb
Zoekmp3
Italia Online Search
Sharetraxx
Audiofind
SingingFish Media Search
Altavista Search
posted by Social Sweetener at
1:57 AM
1 Comments:
http://www.fastdown.net
It's not a huge library, but since in Canada it's legal to share music, this site is actually legal, and isn't very likely to get shut down.
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matthew, at August 27, 2004 3:27 PM
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