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

Posted by timothy on from the but-how's-the-marrow? dept.

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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  1. Yes, but because by saloomy · · Score: 5, Insightful

    The industry was created to cover the cost of production and distribution. Both of which today are much cheaper and can me made by individuals who have not "made it" yet.

  2. Re:Why bother Steve Albini? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Insightful

    many services that are working on music being aggressively categorized by moods, styles

    That's nice, but how is it relevant?

    The music industry has been ridiculously dynamic and new innovations have changed

    And now you sound like a broken industry advertiser machine. Yes, they have been pushing DRM on us and bribing governments "protect the.." ...their way of doing business. Yes, paying the artist 5% of profit is piracy because you no longer distribute physical vynil disks that suffer from "breakage" -- actual term used in a contract for distributing mp3s.

    If the entire industry disappeared overnight we would all be much better off, even after factoring in their unemployment checks.