Courtney Love (was: napster)

[Øivind Idsø <ezueled@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

It was so tempting to put Courtney Love's name in the subject of a message
to microsound, so I just had to. But I'm being serious, because Michael
said:

> > What I find really really sad is that all the
> > musicians/artists/whoever that are signed with those huge
> > recording/publishing/distributing monsters don't get up and say how
> > they are f**ked by them.  If most artists are fine with about 5% of
> > their Cd retail price (+ perhaps 10% of copyright where applicable)
> > they must not have a very high esteem.

Courtney Love is, in fact, speaking out. And doing the math. In an eloquent
(and long) article she discusses the piracy of the record industry, Napster
and the whole deal...check it out:

http://www.salon.com/tech/feature/2000/06/14/love/print.html

More about napstericism in another mail.

/Øivind/