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Which Artists Support Music Swapping?
jtauber asks: "With RIAA's new campaign to 'educate' people that unauthorized downloads of music are illegal and with the range of artists who are endorsing the campaign, I thought it would be interesting to ask the question: which well-known artists (if any) go against the RIAA and are _in favour_ of music swapping? Certainly many unsigned bands like my own encourage it, but what about those signed with major record labels?" We did a question along a similar veign not too long ago, except its focus was non-RIAA Record Labels. What artists are you aware of (popular or not) who have come out in favor of music-swapping?
There's a difference between taping the live show and ripping the CD and passing it around. First, fans have only been given permission to tape the show, something that won't likely be a huge seller anyway for most bands and if a song or two does happen to make it onto a compilation album at some point, these bootlegs won't affect sales of the compilation that much.
Second, the bootlegged recordings might be nice to listen to but they don't compare to being at a well produced concert. Good quality MP3 rips on the other hand can encapsulate the exact same experience the original CD does. The next step in P2P music swapping is to scan the liner notes and offer PDFs of them. After that what's the point of buying the CD?
People who go to concerts, even to record the show and pass it around (is it really bootleg is the bands allow it to happen?) People who download hundreds of MP3s are leeches.