RE: [microsound] Labels go after individual song-swappers

[mark <mark@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi

"I am not absolutely sure what Mark means,"

I'm afraid I was being facitious and proposing that the law would say -
everyone
has to buy 1 cd for every say £100 of net income. Silly idea but only as

silly as all the nonsense the RIAA comes up with. 

Being serious - the thing that really gets me is that the recording 
industry is focusing on teenagers and ignoring a lot of proper music. 
Teenagers swap music - I did it when I was young with crappy 
cassettes - my Son will do it with whatever technology is around 
when he is a bit older..

The people with money (ie 28(ish)+  I guess) want proper music made 
by people who make music for the sake of music and not as some 
marketing exercise. These people don't copy anyway - they don't 
need to. Yes I use mp3 - I have mp3s on my laptop to listen when 
I'm working  and I download stuff I can't get hold of for love nor 
money - stuff I want to check out before buying and stuff that?s not 
available elsewhere but I also spend a lot on real music.

I don't know the solution but litigation sure ain't it. If things 
carry on the way they are going there will be two record 
industries - the big labels with copy proof "product" and smaller 
labels distributing different formats and real music 

mark