Protect Your Digital Rights

Dak RIT

Dak RIT

Missing Intelligence
If the DMCA wasn't bad enough, the record companies are now lobbying Congress (and have been) to force technology to take away your basic Fair Use rights with digital content such as songs, movies, and books. The effects are staggering, although Walter Mossberg (The Wall Street Journal) explains much of the situation far better than I could.

I urge you to read his article:
http://ptech.wsj.com/archive/ptech-20020314.html

And, visit digitalconsumer.org and send a fax to your representative in Congress. Stand up for your rights!

Cheers,
Dak
 
I have been spying at the site from the RIAA. Don't expect me for owning an mp3player. At home there are hundreds of singles, several long-playing records, picture disks from my favorite popstar and about hundred compact discs. If someone likes it I own a modelrailroad, but know it's just taking dust.
best wishes,
Hervé
 
because the times have changed, and they are not adapting, just like the dinosaurs. A large segment of the population wants digital music, and they are going to get it with or without the involvement of the recording industry.

Record companies are living in a dream land if they think they can continue on with their antiquated accounting practices that screw both the artist and the consumer. $18 for a CD? What a joke. It costs pennies to create, manufacture and distribute. Perhaps the cost could be justified if the artist got a decent cut, but most of the time, the artist is getting pennies per CD. It's ridiculous when a major artist can sell a couple million of CD's, but because of ancient accounting practices that involve rules that don't even apply anymore (the ridiculous "return" rules, "shrinkage" rules, etc.), most artists find themselves in the red and heavily indebtted to the record industry when they are lucky enough to have a hit.

And the attitude the record industry has to it's customers is the best part. The head honchos (Eisner, Geffen, etc.) have made public statements time and time again that show they feel that all consumers are pirates and should be treated as such.

As someone once said, "Let them eat cake".
 
Aggh!!! it makes me so mad. But in the end it's the recording studios who are bending themselves over the economic knee to get the belting of their lifetime. For years they have told us what to listen to (since the industrial revolution when people wanted what everyone else had because it was tried and true.)

Now in the digital age people can get whatever music they want to listen to. If the record companies actually do cut off the digital music trade people will just stop listing to the music they want us too. Open mp3.com and search for your favorite band and you will get 10 that were influenced by them and many of them have just as much talent.

Why does a rock star need that money anyway? Do they have something that the average person doesn't? (Listen to the Stokes and you will know what I mean. They CAN'T sing.) Did Mozart make great music because he was paid? Hell, he could hardly keep food on his table. It wasn't till very recently that musicianship wasn't considered a vagabond's trade and kept them outcast.

Don't get me wrong, some musicians make good music and make lot's of money but they will still make money if people actually like their music. I didn't have to pay for my copy of Graphic Converter, in fact I had a serial number that worked just fine but I bought it because it was quality software. People will still buy cds to support their favorite bands and get the liners which will be worth more since there are less of them. Live performances will be worth more as well.

The digital age is upon us and the Labels will adapt or die.
 
hopefully, musicians will wake up and follow in the footsteps of artists like Public Enemy. We have the tech today for artists to create, market, distribute and sell their content while completely bypasing the antiquated and greedy record companies.
 
You guys are lucky in the US.

Here in Canada, the government is proposing a tarrif of about $1.20 per CD that is to go to the record studios!:mad:

It doesn't matter if the CDs you are buying are even being used for audio or not, you still are charged, and paying those theving record companies.:mad:

PLUS, they're proposing a $21.00 tarrif per GB storage on portable MP3 players!!!!!!!!!!!

WTF?!?!?

So, on top of the $600 Canadian for the iPod, I would also have to pay $105.00 to the record companies!!!
NO THANK YOU!

That is just a load of crap!

AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH..


OK I feel better now.:D
 
If they tried to pull that in the US I'd be in Washington yesterday. It's bad enough they think they can do it to our neighbors to the north. March on Ottawa anyone?

Cheers,
Dak, furious
 
DAK RIT I am a songwriter the only thing you will obtain is that someone will pick up my lyrics. I am also someone who has learned to write software. I have also seen you as one of the best members on the boards. Keep this like this and be nice! Otherwise you will find you opposed against worldclass performers. Is that what you are searching? I guess not!
 
Sorry Hervé, no disrespect was meant from one of my earlier posts... I've deleted it (it didn't have any real content anyway) :)

*hanging his head in shame*

Cheers,
Dak
 
Just wrote my representative at this web site: http://www.house.gov/writerep/

My letter turned out to be really long and I didn't even get to say as much about microsoft monopolies as I wanted ;)

Speaking of which, I've been wanting to know if my state (Colorado) is one of the states now opposing the Microsoft settlement. I know it wasn't one of the 9 but does anyone know the 25 that joined late? I want to write my senator now and either tell him to get on the ball or thank him.
 
I started a little boycott of Universal records a while back because of their upcoming CD's that use the protected WMA format (which microspork handed them big bucks to do). The CD's don't work in macs. They work in PC's but you can't rip them (officially but of course there will be hacks). My main argument was that it does take away from fair use.

Most people didn't believe me when I told about fair use. They just thought I was a pirating monkey. But I DO NOT own a stereo! My only way to play music is from my laptop which is connected to my reciever. I would be SO ticked off if I had to buy a CD player.

The only thing is that I found my boycott stupidly ineffective because when you buy a CD the record company isn't very clear. Its not like buying food where you get a nice "Kraft" logo on the front (Kraft is owned by Phillip Morris ciggarettes by the way. Join the boycott!)

Since most of the record companies seem to be following the same trends as Universal, and since it is hard to be a concious CD buyer, I think legislation is really the only place we can go. The record industry has gotten pretty sad.

Good article BTW
 
It's a little late now, but, AK:

PE did a little thing where they wanted to produce all their stuff digitally (on macs if I remember) and distribute it via the net thus bypassing all the record label swines. I have an MP3 of "Swindler's Lust", one of the MP3s the put out. I kinda got busy and lost track of the movement to do stuff like that. I just hope more artists realize that for a (relatively) small investment in some cool hardware (Macs of course), they could go straight to their fans. I think the MP3 I got was something like US$.50.

This kinda thing would work for a group with a built in fan base like PE. may be a bit harder for up and coming bands though... Still, I for one would support them.
 
Dak I have received promotion. The procedure has started to put me out the waiting list. That from songwriter was a joke it was garbageman. The promotion is to work as a warehousemanager for these people.
thanks,
Hervé
 
Originally posted by Koelling
Speaking of which, I've been wanting to know if my state (Colorado) is one of the states now opposing the Microsoft settlement. I know it wasn't one of the 9 but does anyone know the 25 that joined late? I want to write my senator now and either tell him to get on the ball or thank him.
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The states didn't join the 9 states and the District of Columbia in their fight for a stronger remedy, but rather expressed their support for the states RIGHT to do so. Microsoft was countering that states didn't have the right to get involved in a national antitrust suit, and therefore should be thrown out. Such a ruling would be huge. The states expressing their support were Arizona, Arkansas, Colorado, Idaho, Illinois, Indiana, Louisiana, Maine, Maryland, Michigan, Mississippi, Missouri, Nevada, New Hampshire, New Jersey, North Dakota, Ohio, Oregon, South Dakota, Tennessee, Vermont, Washington, Wisconsin and the Commonwealth of Kentucky. New York (one of the states supporting the DOJ resolution) also expressed their support for the other 9 states.

There's a New York Times article on it:
http://www.nytimes.com/cnet/CNET_0-1003-200-9171527.html

Cheers,
Dak
 
It seems that Motorola is adding some features in his new processors. We will been Highly immersed. I may say this I guess?
 
Is it a digital right to have a spammed emailbox? Funny you are receiving information. Booring you can't get rid of the information.
I was in the station and I saw a girl wearing a black sac with M on IT.
 
I have heard that the recordindustry Emi Group has to lay off 1800 people. :( I have only made one piece of music "Let's The DJ!" and I will make no problem if it will be used for the world first commercial folding cd who is invented by the "Instistut For New Materials" in Saarbrücken Germany.
 
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