Steve Albini: The Music Industry Is a Parasite -- and Copyright Is Dead

journovampire sends word of another thought-provoking rant from Steve Albini (mentioned here last a few years back for his paean to the beauty of analog tape for recording): The veteran producer addressed an audience in Barcelona on Saturday: "The old copyright model – the person who creates something owns it and anyone else that wants to use it or see it has to pay them – has expired."

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Re:Yes, but because

[Anonymous Coward]

And yet the industry saw fit to extract payment from radio stations who doubled as advertisers for them.

The industry has been a parasite for decades.

Tons of free music out there

[future assassin]

the best site I discovered is http://www.ektoplazm.com/ Obviously Trance/Goa/Spy/Etc is not everyone’s cup of tea but there are tons of net labels out there that license their music CC.

I discovered http://www.embarrassed.nl/ on Ektoplazm and their Tales of the Coin Spinner would rival any commercial electronic music release especially in the mide/late 90's style.

Re:Tons of free music out there

[Anonymous Coward]

For similar genres I'd recommend Soma FM. Also thanks to the editors for correcting the spelling of paean.

Re: Yes, but because

[guruevi]

The artist who is doing well is the exception and not the rule. Regardless of marketing model, there are more artists that have served you coffee or fries than artists you may have bought an album from.

Re:Yes, but because

[CrimsonAvenger]

There's absolutely no reason copyright should not be infinite years

Other than that phrase "for limited times" in the Constitution, you mean?