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Originally Posted by L0stMind
My only problem with this whole thing is this - give me an outlet to legally purchase all the media I want to consume and I will pay for it.
I'm a music fan. Sadly, a lot of music is not available for sale in Canada or online. How do I get a copy legally? As a consumer I want to consume! Give me the product.
The grocery store analogy doesn't take the above into account...
Instead of spending so much money on prosecuting these infringers (who are completely in the wrong, I agree) spend the money on creating outlets for people to purchase the product and be good consumers.
Bah...
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Lost mind, I would suggest you complain to your favorite artists that you can't buy if that is the case. They are the ones entering into restrictive contracts, rather than allowing the music to "be free".
One of the funny stories right now is the whole Radiohead deal. For those who don't know, this band (who no longer has any recording deal) self produced an album which they will sell on the internet for "whatever people want to pay", minimum being about $1 to pay for processing. They are also selling an upscale box set of the album for about $80.
Many people in the "record companies suck" world are pointing to this as the way of the future, how bands could just set up shop, record their own albums, and sell them by themselves, making the money and no longer feeding the money hungry record companies.
Hahahahahaha. Fuck that makes me laugh.
Question: How does anyone know Radiohead from a hole in the wall? They do only because (a) they had a number of albums released and distributed worldwide by record labels, (b) they received marketing support, advertising, and promotion from the record labels, and (c) they received advances of funds from the record companies in order to be able to record the albums.
What Radiohead is doing today is taking all the market exposure, all the build up, all the promotion, and all the brand awareness built up by the record companies involved and turning it to thier favor. Without the record companies, they wouldn't be here to start with.
Without the capital to record, produce, master, duplicate, and distribute widely a significant number of records in a significant number of markets, most musicians would be eating whatever the local version of Kraft Dinner is for the rest of thier lives, playing gigs for bar tab money.