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"Dealing" With Casual Piracy
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Old Nov 15, 2007, 10:57 PM Local time: Nov 15, 2007, 08:57 PM #26 of 33
Why do you care what they do though?

Obviously, and this can't be said enough, it works for musicians because they have options. Many choose to stick with the Big Four despite all the things that everyone says are big and bad.

So if musicians keep on keepin' on, and you admit that filesharers are committing crimes, then what do you care if the RIAA decides to go after those people or not?

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Old Nov 16, 2007, 01:58 AM Local time: Nov 15, 2007, 11:58 PM #27 of 33
I don't care, per se. It's their business and they can run it as they see fit. It just doesn't seem like all their efforts are accomplishing much, besides providing a constructive defense of their copyrights. That said, the reason for my interest in this subject, I suppose, is that I wonder how this will be resolved (or if it even will be). Will copyright laws be redefined, the internet regulated, or will things continue merrily on as they have been? Basically, I find the RIAA's dilemma interesting, because I'm not sure how it can really be solved.

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Old Nov 16, 2007, 03:03 AM Local time: Nov 16, 2007, 06:03 PM #28 of 33
Originally Posted by BlueMikey
So, what, musicians are the only people who can't decide how they get paid?
Musicians certainly can, but if they get cunty about it, we'll all know.

I think extant and future players in the music industry should fundamentally operate like buskers. The jury's still out on whether or not this would jeopardise the ability of artists to earn a living from art, and I daresay it'll rule in my favour. Tomorrow's labels will just have to focus hard on concert revenue (provided tomorrow's rockers aren't labels unto themselves).

We pay top dollar for a genuine painting and peanuts for a poster of Guernica. The industry solicitors should let poster duplication slide.

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So you go in to work today. Your boss calls you in, rips up your employment contract, and tells you that you are going to get paid what he feels like paying you. He's not going to tell you why he's paying that much, he's not going to tell you what he's going to pay you tomorrow.
Sounds like something we've got already.

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On top of that, sales don't mean anything to a composer. Time and time again, a score doesn't ever get a release. Franz Waxman's score to the 1954 movie The Silver Chalice got released last month; do you think that he suddenly didn't get any work ever again because they didn't release this score for 53 years?
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Old Nov 16, 2007, 11:32 AM Local time: Nov 16, 2007, 09:32 AM #29 of 33
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Welcome to America. :P

I also haven't seen any National Days of Protest regarding the RIAA.

I was speaking idiomatically.
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Old Nov 16, 2007, 12:59 PM 1 #30 of 33
Lol gday reading comprehension o_].
If you're going to ask a question only to give an empty, worthless post as a reaction, stop opening your gob. Passive-aggressive trolling isn't taken kindly by people who actually bring something to the table.

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Old Nov 16, 2007, 10:55 PM Local time: Nov 17, 2007, 01:55 PM 1 #31 of 33
If you'd put it back in your pants, you might realise we're not disagreeing on that point. Album sales are irrelevant to a composer's ability to get paid or re-employed.

Have you always been like this?

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