A report by the Electronic Frontier Foundation comes to two conclusions: first, that the RIAA’s lawsuit campaign isn’t exactly serving as a deterrent from file-swapping; and second, the real answer to the piracy problem is flat-fee, unlimited peer-to-peer filesharing that all the labels will participate in. [Ars Technica]
August 29th, 2007 // 2 Comments
idolator
You know what’s funny about this?
Nothing because if the fucking labels and companies who have been told this since 1998 had listened to anyone, we wouldn’t have to read it on Ars Technica almost ten years later.
Excuse me, but even if I pay that flat fee once a month, how does that prevent my son from continuing to grab all the free MP3s that are already out there?
And by the way, has our crack team of Idolator scribes gotten wind of the holy shitstorm over at dead.net, where they suddenly and with no initial explanation, seemingly at Rhino’s behest, stopped availability of their laudable Tapers Section weekly MP3 series and delivered them in a fucked up streaming format?
The angry comments section has gone on and on for two weeks now. This is the band that wrote the book on commerce populi, and even they have stumbled.
Have you seen a guy in a suit with two black eyes? He works at Rhino. Given custody of one of the greatest audio vaults of all time, it’s amazing how little they’ve released for an audience willing to continue underwriting the archive. Then they piss off the one audience that willingly and reliably buys product.
PR and marketing sense left all the labels a while ago at the same time somebody left the back door open and all the music poured out.
The real problem at the record companies is that they all went public, worshipping at the altar of shareholders rather than seeking the golden chord.