nothing more than a "failed business model" Except in terms of severity and urgency the same argument is taking place with cluster bombs and rockets in Lebanon right now.
Ownership that begins at a certain entirely arbitrary point and becomes sacred and binding immediately and for all time after. Music as it's now purveyed rests on an unacknowledged and virtually invisible foundation that includes but isn't limited to what's called the "public domain". The p.d. functioning a lot like the "uninhabited" lands various privileged "discoverers" planted their flags on and claimed for "God and Country" or whatever.
What it's really about is the sanctity of contract law. We see with the grotesquely absurd writhings of the insurance companies in the Katrina aftermath that contract law is a refuge for something that does not embody the highest expressions of human nobility. Music often does.
Music is played at weddings, at funerals, at coronations and inaugurations, people make love to music, many of us were conceived to music. Music is integral to the human experience. It's been redefined, and trivialized, as "entertainment", and entertainment itself has been reduced to an idle thing, because it has no application to the industrial model except as an industry for the provision of entertainment. These are not proven aspects of the social employment of music, merely givens, and mostly the result of skewing by non-producing "owners". Sony doesn't make music, they sell it - they pimp it. The RIAA is more like a giant tick preserving its connection to the blood of the people than it is anything like the agent for some troubador starving at the gates of the castle, playing his heart out on the ten-string mandolin. The failure isn't in the business model, it's in the organism, the thing these businesses become when the grafted source of their power swells them past human proportion. The machine doesn't care, perforce the agencies of the machine don't care. Music is central to the expression of human caring. That's where the conflict is. Reducing and repositioning it to a conflict over money is ultimately a misdirection, and deceitful.
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nothing more than a "failed business model"
Except in terms of severity and urgency the same argument is taking place with cluster bombs and rockets in Lebanon right now.
Ownership that begins at a certain entirely arbitrary point and becomes sacred and binding immediately and for all time after.
Music as it's now purveyed rests on an unacknowledged and virtually invisible foundation that includes but isn't limited to what's called the "public domain".
The p.d. functioning a lot like the "uninhabited" lands various privileged "discoverers" planted their flags on and claimed for "God and Country" or whatever.
What it's really about is the sanctity of contract law.
We see with the grotesquely absurd writhings of the insurance companies in the Katrina aftermath that contract law is a refuge for something that does not embody the highest expressions of human nobility.
Music often does.
Music is played at weddings, at funerals, at coronations and inaugurations, people make love to music, many of us were conceived to music.
Music is integral to the human experience. It's been redefined, and trivialized, as "entertainment", and entertainment itself has been reduced to an idle thing, because it has no application to the industrial model except as an industry for the provision of entertainment.
These are not proven aspects of the social employment of music, merely givens, and mostly the result of skewing by non-producing "owners".
Sony doesn't make music, they sell it - they pimp it.
The RIAA is more like a giant tick preserving its connection to the blood of the people than it is anything like the agent for some troubador starving at the gates of the castle, playing his heart out on the ten-string mandolin.
The failure isn't in the business model, it's in the organism, the thing these businesses become when the grafted source of their power swells them past human proportion.
The machine doesn't care, perforce the agencies of the machine don't care.
Music is central to the expression of human caring.
That's where the conflict is.
Reducing and repositioning it to a conflict over money is ultimately a misdirection, and deceitful.