[Subversounds]

Some pretty good articles and arguments around.

My opinion I've posted in a similar thread a while ago...



For centuries musicians (and all people involved) earned their money playing, not selling records. I think this is the way again.

From my perspective, the piracy issue is much more a scream of a dying industry than any other thing.

- never before i've seen so many music shows around town (Rio de Janeiro) from cheap 'guy-next-door' shows to U$300 Madonna shows.

- never before i've seen so many new good artists making music (i'm 27).

- never before was so cheap and easy to make the world listen to your songs. And well, to record them as well.

Artists should keep playing and charging for it.

Producers should keep producing and charging for it.

Engineers should keep recording and charging for it.

Distribuition should keep distributing music and charging for it.

Copyrights from a finished work (playing, producing, engineering, distribuiting) is like GM or Volkwagen charging the cabdriver a share of his earnings. Just silly. No writer gets money share when someone cite his work in another book, not even if the whole book is a compilation of citations of many writers.

Everyone seems ok if the guy who designed an album cover gets no % of the sells even when his art is in a million copy album. His task is really important to the business as well. But no one seems to care, and why? He was paid by the service. That is the way it will be, but now, for all parts involved in the process of making that sound.

The music industry was created with bad habits, policies that no other industry have.

More and more the recorded media will get back to the status of 'a good way to make people go to concerts' (as it was until the mass production/consumption Era of the 50-60s).