Legal action against traders of MP3s and videos? That's so last year. 2006 will be the year the music publishing industry cracks down on online lyrics, song notation, and tablature. We're not talking small lawsuits: the head of the publishing association promises jail time for site owners.
The sad part is, these pathetic attempts to control the music industry are enforced by the actual artist. I have lost all respect for artist that bitch about getting $12 million in sales, as appose to the previous years of $20 million.
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Jan-07-2006 21:09
RapidFire
Supreme tranceaddict
Registered: Feb 2005
Location: toronto
curse you metallica!!!!!
Jan-07-2006 21:10
kr00t0n
Archduke of Awesome
Registered: Feb 2002
Location: Hibernating
quote:
Originally posted by knoxy5000
Hahahaha, What ever will they think of next
if we buy music, we need to forget it within 1 hour of listening to it, as to prevent us from humming or whistling it to our friends which would again deprive artists of royalties
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Jan-07-2006 21:13
knoxy5000
Senior tranceaddict
Registered: Mar 2004
Location: Darlington England
quote:
Originally posted by kr00t0n
if we buy music, we need to forget it within 1 hour of listening to it, as to prevent us from humming or whistling it to our friends which would again deprive artists of royalties
Tabs I can understand, though only if an actual tabs book is available at a sensible price.
Nobody is going to be coerced into buying lyrics books off the industry, and the industry can fuck right off if it thinks its going to try and make me.
However, the fortunate thing is that tabs only really apply to songs using real instruments, which you don't really get much of in our line of music, and only the very large publishing companies are (so far) petty enough to try and start a fight over lyrics. So I think we're safe.
Jan-07-2006 21:41
Omega_Blue
Someone Changed My Custom
Registered: Dec 2003
Location: Gone
quote:
Originally posted by Chris Larkin
Tabs I can understand, though only if an actual tabs book is available at a sensible price.
Nobody is going to be coerced into buying lyrics books off the industry, and the industry can fuck right off if it thinks its going to try and make me.
However, the fortunate thing is that tabs only really apply to songs using real instruments, which you don't really get much of in our line of music, and only the very large publishing companies are (so far) petty enough to try and start a fight over lyrics. So I think we're safe.
fuck that.. usually the tabs you see online are ones transcribed by regular people. even if the tabs were note for note with the "official" tab book, the author could just say he has an ear for music and can transcribe it well.
the artist gains nothing if tabs were prohibited, and in my opinion, doing so would stifle the creativity and potential of many beginning musicians who use tab as a tool for learning their instrument.
Jan-07-2006 22:46
Jaanus
tranceaddict in training
Registered: Feb 2005
Location: Tallinn, Estonia
This is fucking stupid.
Hey, let's spam Tiestoolbox's forum with links to mp3-s and drive the mothafucka bankrubt!
Jan-07-2006 23:43
sigmanova
tranceaddict in training
Registered: Dec 2003
Location: Los Angeles, CA
quote:
Originally posted by toshirozawa
The sad part is, these pathetic attempts to control the music industry are enforced by the actual artist. I have lost all respect for artist that bitch about getting $12 million in sales, as appose to the previous years of $20 million.
it just means they cant make the payments for that 6th Lexus.