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Recording Music Without the Recording Industry
hephaist0s writes "The 2008 RPM Challenge — to write and record an original album in February, just because you can — is about to begin. Hundreds of musicians from around the world have already signed up. Last year, more than 850 albums were recorded as part of the challenge, a testament to what can be done by independent musicians without a label, without the RIAA, and often without a professional studio. The efforts ranged from an album made entirely on a Nintendo Game Boy to a Speed Racer rock opera, produced by both experienced bands and novice musicians, often in continent-spanning online collaborations. Last year's challenge generated one of the largest free jukeboxes of original music available online, built to stream on-demand all 8500-plus original, artist-owned songs. Imagine if grassroots, independent systems like this foretold the future of recorded music and its distribution."
Um, who are you talking to? I've never heard any opinion like this seriously expressed by any copyright holder, or organisation. You're not deliberately confusing copyright infringement (which devastatingly competes with the media creators, all the while relying on them) with competition (which provides a completely self-sustainable separate product), are you? I'm just asking 'cause no-one else seems to.
You know, there is a difference between trolling and pointing out the flaws in your reasoning. Just saying.