You get to listen to music for free over the airways because the radio stations pay for the rights to broadcast them, unlike Kazaa.
I can buy a cable TV descrambler and watch all sorts of "Free" TV, but I'll eventually get caught and I'm sure the cable company will want some kind of compensation.
Same deal here.
Anyone who saw the HBO "Britney: Live in Vegas" special knows full well that Miss Spears is NOT using pitch correction in concert. That would require her to ACTUALLY SING!!! Which she doesn't. At all. You don't need live pitch correction for an already pitch corrected recording.
I wish people would realize that the only way to get rid of the RIAA is to give an alternative to the Artist that create the music and not come up up with a grand scheme to defraud the whole industry.
There are thousands of working musicians that put in a lot of time and effort to create the music that many of you believe should be free. Well, they need to be paid, or else there won't be any more music.
Now, if you want to modify this idea and have the publicly traded corporation hire musicians to create music owned by the corporation and available for it's shareholders, that would be legal and quasi-ethical as long as an independent musician could still sell his product to the general public.
At this point, when you steal music, you are hurting the artist far more than the RIAA. I know this isn't what most of you would like to do, so come up with some means for an artist to freely own his work and get paid for it while making it available to the public for a reasonble fee.
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You get to listen to music for free over the airways because the radio stations pay for the rights to broadcast them, unlike Kazaa. I can buy a cable TV descrambler and watch all sorts of "Free" TV, but I'll eventually get caught and I'm sure the cable company will want some kind of compensation. Same deal here.
Ignorance of the law is no defense. Just because the parents "thought" they were doing something legal is no excuse for them not being sure.
Anyone who saw the HBO "Britney: Live in Vegas" special knows full well that Miss Spears is NOT using pitch correction in concert. That would require her to ACTUALLY SING!!! Which she doesn't. At all. You don't need live pitch correction for an already pitch corrected recording.
I wish people would realize that the only way to get rid of the RIAA is to give an alternative to the Artist that create the music and not come up up with a grand scheme to defraud the whole industry. There are thousands of working musicians that put in a lot of time and effort to create the music that many of you believe should be free. Well, they need to be paid, or else there won't be any more music. Now, if you want to modify this idea and have the publicly traded corporation hire musicians to create music owned by the corporation and available for it's shareholders, that would be legal and quasi-ethical as long as an independent musician could still sell his product to the general public. At this point, when you steal music, you are hurting the artist far more than the RIAA. I know this isn't what most of you would like to do, so come up with some means for an artist to freely own his work and get paid for it while making it available to the public for a reasonble fee.