Will The Inducing Infringement Act Kill The IPod?
 

Bastards. Its high time that we invade the U.S. Senate. After we capture Orrin Hatch, we should declare him an enemy combatant.

Never have I seen someone so in the back pocket of a special interest group. And the man seems proud of it.

I guess you can get away with acting like that in Utah, it's not like they'll ever vote for a Democrat.

Here are the Senators that proposed the Act:

Sen. Orrin Hatch, R-Utah
Sen. Patrick Leahy, D-Vt
Sen. Bill Frist, R-Tenn
Sen. Tom Daschle, D-S.D.
Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C.
Sen. Barbara Boxer, D-Calif.

The aim of the act is good. I supported it. However, the act itself, like the article said, will do more harm then good.

Here is the 'Inducing Infringement of Copyrights Act of 2004'.

The act is way too broad, and it could be anything from illegal peer to peer instruments all the way to your CD burner.

The Act is currently being referred to the Committee on the Judiciary.

Everytime I watch MTV's "Cribs", I see the poor folks that are being robbed by MP3's. I mean.. Britney Spears couldn't buy that diamond studded toilet seat because people were swapping her songs online.

The bastards!

Funny thing about that is most small to middle size bands actually loved MP3s. Most of these bands make their money from touring anyway.

I was in a small band for awhile. We made almost no money off of our CD's (which we just brought to the bars we played at and sold them there). MP3's were great. We had a website where folks could d/l our stuff -- MP3's got us a few decent gigs.

Yup, my experience with "managing" (back during my undergrad days) and looking at bands, it's better to freely distribute the music and tour extensively. Of course, this is for the betterment of the band or singer. Record companies would hate it. Look at bands that have long life span, most of them have a free taping policies and encourage their fans to freely distribute their shows.

Those bands also tend to have a much more loyal fan base. Think Phish and the Grateful Dead. I don't think those policies have really hurt their CD sales either.

Record companies, in my opinion, have seriously f-d up the music scene in general. Especially with pop-music. Personally, I can't stand the stuff.

I don't think anything upsets me more than seeing senators so proudly in the pockets of special interests. I'm not talking about saying I "condemn" it (which is getting to be a little bit of a cliché). Just reading about Hatch and his bill makes me angry as hell. I'd write him and my congressmen letters, but I know I'd just be ignored.

No matter what, people will always find a way to dl mp3s and burn them onto a playing device....

Sorry rich white men of the music industry-you're not taking our method of fighting back against your greed. lol whatever that means.

What's that supposed to mean? And Russell Simmons isn't white.

Yeah, but Def Jam is a division of Universal Music Group.

I agree with you Kev. What is missing from the music industry is development of artists. They are after the big fast bucks, which is why every single freaking songs on the radio sounds the same.

Except you can't stop technology...do people not understand this? Either you adapt or learn to deal with the new environment or you bow the funk out. Whether it's stem cell research or MP3s, technology wins.

-Rudey

Billy Corgan: "You can't stop technology - if we were smart, we'd realize that music will eventually turn into TV. Everyone gets it free, you just have to find subsidiary ways to make cash, like network TV does w/ commercial advertisements."


Smart words from a really intelligent "insider" (who happened to be a god during the late 90s, ROCK!).