The new Wilco record was voluntarily and legally made available early on mp3 and debuted on billboard at #12 !!!! This shows that the hype the record companies are pushing is B.S. Or people wont buy them and the idea will implode.īut the record companies are going to try to find ways to stop illegal sharing. So hopefully enough people will get burned (no pun intended) that the matter ends up in court and the copy-protected CDs will go away. I dont think copy protected CDs are real CDs in the eyes of Philips, who licences the format. If people want free and legal music there is plenty out there to be had. If you download to try to correct that wrong you are still stealing.Īs an amatuer musician I make all my music available for free download thru MP3.com, and sometimes on my homepage. But those artists signed those contracts giving up all rights to thier music. You could say that the record companies are screwing artists, and you'd be right.

You can try to rationalize your theft any way you like but it is stealing. Sharing your mp3s over the internet for all to download or downloading them yourself IS STEALING! Ripping your CDs to your hard disk is cool and easy way to enjoy your music. I have no sympathy for the RRIA or any labels, they put themselves in the position they're in.they can either change their business or die. They have held a monopoly over consumer's heads with a vengence, holding back superior consumer products via high product taxes and maintaining a bloated product price.

For the last roughly sixty years, the major labels and FM radio have worked together to use and abuse any artist they could to make a profit. Am I the only one who's confused here?Isn't it amazing that only studies commissioned by RRIA find cd sales to be down because of online downloads? Perhaps if the record industry would focus on delivering good albums and music(the entire disc, not one or two songs) and they didn't keep the prices of cd's up around 20$ a pop, people would care a lot more about the music industry's survival.

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