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Recording Music Without the Recording Industry

Posted by kdawson on from the free-as-in-tracks dept.

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."

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  1. good idea by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    music without the RIAA is like America without the beaners and jigaboos.

  2. Re:Massive Copyright Infringement? Speed Racer Ste by TNPTLgYL · · Score: -1, Troll

    Cry me a river. All this IP isn't property crying isn't going to get around the fact that WIPO is agreed to by most nations. In the USA IP is heavily recognized and not going away. It doesn't matter how your napster morals work, they violate the law. Fan fic is often illegal, Vivendi and Lucas Arts both prosecute over fan fiction, why does it surprise you that using Speed Racer infringes on IP?

  3. Re:Massive Copyright Infringement? Speed Racer Ste by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    In the USA IP is heavily recognized and not going away Such faith! When the USA is destroyed, where will your I"P" be? Intellectual slavery law will end. If it takes the death of the American Reich to acheive that, so be it. You're like a roman saying "slaves will always be owned in the Roman Empire". All empires must fall, and the Corporate Reich of America is no different.

  4. Re:Cool by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    whom these days seem to be anyone who's even heard a song they don't own while riding a friend's car

    Stop with the hyperbole. It helps nothing except your karma-whoring.

  5. Re:Personally, I adore the RIAA by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    We do the ass-fucking around here, boy-o.

    Love,
    The Recording Industry Association of America