{"id":632,"date":"2007-10-07T21:33:22","date_gmt":"2007-10-08T05:33:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thecyberwolfe.com\/blog\/?p=632"},"modified":"2007-10-07T21:33:22","modified_gmt":"2007-10-08T05:33:22","slug":"kill-the-labels-please","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/thecyberwolfe.com\/blog\/2007\/10\/07\/kill-the-labels-please\/","title":{"rendered":"Kill the labels please."},"content":{"rendered":"

This shit has gone too far. In the UK, the Performing Rights Society (which collects royalties for songwriters and performers) is suing a chain<\/a> of auto shops for allowing their employees to play their radios loud enough that everyone around them can hear. They say this amounts to “public performance”, and is therefore a violation of copyright. The PRS is seeking \u00a3200,000 in damages.<\/p>\n

O_o<\/p>\n

Okay, now if we combine that with the RIAA’s claim that “making downloads available” (I.E., having music in a shared folder accessible by a P2P client) is just as bad as actively uploading \/ downloading music, then there is only one possible next step: the music labels will be banding together to sue anyone who owns a radio capable of outputting a signal to anything larger than a pair of earbud headphones.<\/p>\n

Because, obviously, having speakers larger than earbud ‘phones means they could conceivably be turned up load enough for the neighbors or passers-by to hear, which is the equivalent of “making available”, so those people have “made available” their music for public performance. The same would go double for car-stereo owners equipped with amplifiers powerful enough to make the music heard beyond the confines of the car.<\/p>\n

I hereby urge all musicians to use whatever means necessary to extricate yourself from any recording contracts you may have and use the technology available in the marketplace today to self-publish, because obviously the major labels are bent on completely alienating your entire fanbase. In years past, having a contract with a label was the only way to be heard; in this day and age, there’s no reason you couldn’t self-publish or deal directly with iTunes and other distribution points.<\/p>\n

Ye. Fucking. Gods.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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