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Janis Ian on the Internet Debacle
Datasage writes "Janis Ian, famous songwriter and artist, writes about her views of free music downloads, the music industry and the evils of the RIAA in this article." Yet another artist with substantial first-person experience speaking out, reminiscent of Courtney Love's speech.
# Sales of blank CDs have grown? You bet. I bought a new Vaio in December, and now back up all my files onto CD. I go through 7-15 CD's a week that way, or about 500 a year. Most new PC's come with XP, which makes backing up to CD painless; how many people are doing what I'm doing?
Not too many I guess; some of us use rewritable CD's. Why don't you try that too?
You seem to have accidentally inserted the word "branded."
IN TEH FUCHAR, LITERSY WLIL EB OPSHANAL!!!!!111
"You can't hear new music on radio these days; I live in Nashville, "Music City USA", and we have exactly one station willing to play a non-top-40 format"
I know how she feels. I went into my local shopping centre the other day, trying to locate some blank betamax tapes - nothing. I also tried to get a commodore 64 so I could check out some prehistoric games - zilch. And could I find an 8-track machine to play the tapes I got cheap in a jumble sale? Could I fuck!
So much for the so-called free-market. They`re quite clearly just trying to make a profit by selling what most people want to buy. Its a bloody outrage!