The Music Industry wants your every penny.

[Architects of Tomorrow]

Check this BS out:mad:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/12/28/AR2007122800693.html

Happy New Year

[deepvisual]

don'cha love lawyers.
why work for a living when you can sue somebody?

[SteveG]

How did they know he had copied the CD's on to his computer....sharing I would imagine:) I think a more sensible attitude will remain in UK. They would have to succesfully close down all the illegal sharing sites first before going after people who only copy for their own use. Also the manufacturers of PC based DJ'ing programmes would find it difficult as their used by mainly the mobile DJ market and a lot of their material is unavailable digitally. Then their are the Pro DJ's who sample and re-record....the record industry will get bogged down with license application paperwork :)

[PilotX]

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/5053658.stm

BPI back in 2006 talking about this issue. not a problem in the uk to take copies for personal use, although from it looks like it is still illegal - I thought that there was a test case in the 80s that ruled that it was legal to make copies of something either for the purposes of preserving the original or to allow you to play something you've bought on vinyl in your walkman/car/wherever. It seems I am wrong about that though.

[john01]

Does this mean 25 million British people can sue the civil service for copying and distributing their bank details on 2 CDs ?

Can you also charge a royalty every time you are filmed in the UK ?

I'd like to copyright the note middle C and receive 5% every time it is played.

This is total bullshit of course, but so is the usual justification of copyright control, the artists receive very little, if anything, ask Roger McGuinn (http://www.scripting.com/davenet/2000/07/12/rogerMcguinnOnMp3com.html).

The record companies switched to digital CDs because they could make more money selling them than selling analog vinyl. This is their karma, tough tittie. It's not like they never did any price fixing (http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2002/10/01/entertainment/main523833.shtml).

[asterix]

I don't feel sorry for the fact that the music industry will never have a solution for this. They've ripped the public off blind for too long.

Home video recorders barely dented the movie industry. Im sure sony bmg etc's coffers will still be nicely lined. Bring on the web revolution where suits don't control what the mainstream public wants to hear.

[vdmoKstaTi]

2 words: Corporate Evil!
:flamethro

[bryandod]

2 words: Corporate Evil!
:flamethro

well said. pretty much sums up this situation.

[Rovastar]

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/5053658.stm

BPI back in 2006 talking about this issue. not a problem in the uk to take copies for personal use, although from it looks like it is still illegal - I thought that there was a test case in the 80s that ruled that it was legal to make copies of something either for the purposes of preserving the original or to allow you to play something you've bought on vinyl in your walkman/car/wherever. It seems I am wrong about that though.

I thought it was something to do with creating a "backup" of the same format was ok. Although I cannot remember.

[vjpixylight]

if recording artists were smart, joined together to form a sort of RA union, they could cripple the record companies.
Radiohead has started the ball rolling (http://www.telegraph.co.uk/money/main.jhtml?xml=/money/2007/10/07/ccmusic107.xml), knowing full well the more they get their soundz to the masses, the more the masses will come to see them play live...

[Architects of Tomorrow]

if recording artists were smart, joined together to form a sort of RA union, they could cripple the record companies.
Radiohead has started the ball rolling (http://www.telegraph.co.uk/money/main.jhtml?xml=/money/2007/10/07/ccmusic107.xml), knowing full well the more they get their soundz to the masses, the more the masses will come to see them play live...

I just read an article claiming that the record companies are not paying the artists for digital downloads - Ripping the artist off again.

http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20080102-radiohead-artists-often-screwed-by-digital-downloads.html

Screw the major labels!