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CRIA Falling Apart?
An anonymous reader writes "Apparently, the CRIA (Canadian Recording Industry Association) has been falling apart recently. The biggest blow occurred when 6 major Canadian independent labels quit which was followed by some problems with the Copyright Board. Of course, this is all happening after the whole Sam Bulte incident. The article explains what happened with plenty of links for specific information."
How is this insightful? I hate the RIAA as much as anyone, but the parent post doesn't contribute anything.
Wow.. you must be a typical slashdot frequenter. If you RTFA you'd know.
You're nothing; like me.
If you don't like the play and the work, get a new profession. I would really love for it to be my job to play video games all day long. The reality is that in order to make money off of it I would need to have awesome talent and willingness to move to Korea and learn Korean. I don't have the desire to do any of the above so I went and got a college degree and do something that is satisfying in its own right, but I would quit and never do again if someone dropped a 100 million dollars in my lap.
You don't have a right to do the job you want. You have the right to make a go at it, but you sure as shit are not guaranteed anything. Don't like the pay? Do whatever other bloke does. Go find a shit job that pays that you can tolerate and put your 40 hours a week in.
I don't mind limited copyright. I do have a very big problem with the creativity of this nation being monopolized so that a few artists can make a living. Everything should NOT be automatically copyrighted like it is today. Hell, this post is technically copyrighted unless I declare otherwise. The default should not be for everything to be copyrighted. The monopoly on creative work should not be forever (which it currently is for all practical purposes). You should have 5, at most 15 years to squeeze what you can out of a creative work before it is released to the public domain. Yes, I know all artist want to be the one to invent the next happy birthday song so that they don't have to work again, but tough. Go play the lottery like everyone else.
Copyright law is slowly strangling American creativity. The insanity of multimillion dollar fines for downloading a single CD is beyond words. A doctor who cuts off my leg by accident when faces much less sever financial penalties then a kid who downloads a single CD. The system is fucked up and out of whack. It desperately needs to be fixed. There MUST be sane copyright times, STRONG fair use laws, and REASONABLE fines for violating copyright.
Personally, I am so absolutely disgusted with the state of copyright that I have stopped buying music all together. I have not paid a single cent for music in over 4 years. There is enough free (non-pirated) music out there to satisfy me that there is not a shot in hell I will buy into this insane copyright system and support it in any way shape or form.