Thanks a lot music industry.

This I suspect is mainly to stop people from making copies and selling them on eBay… It is slightly unfair for anyone who doesn’t though (That would be 99% of people in the UK).

And, of course, as DJ’s, we are still meant to purchase a ProDUB license when converting from CD or Vinyl or Tape (not sure why you would convert from tape though unless you had no choice but..). I have never heard of someone being prosecuted for the lack of a ProDUB license though – as long as the songs were bought legally then you are probably alright. Of course, the only way to be completely sure is to only play downloaded tracks – which is what I do. It works for me, but then I don’t tend to play sub-genres with music you can’t get hold of anymore.

bob6397

As usual the industry keeps running behind the wagon instead of in front of it. As if legislation can stop progress. There is now such a widely different environment in music compared to only 25 years ago and the ONLY answer the industry has up until today is repression and legislation. ALL the more creative and successful options of selling/distributing music today come from non-music companies or startups without any previous connection to the music “industry”.

It’s fear that rules, not people accepting change and trying to become creators of even more creative ways to earn money in their chosen field.

Let me emphasize this: PIRACY is wrong, criminal and theft! And by piracy I mean large scale copying of creative materials (music, video, but also perfumes, etc.) to sell them on. If you buy a track online, paying between 1 and 2 euro a track (the equivalent of 15-30 euro’s an album in the old days with 12-18 tracks), you are not buying the track but effectively the right to listen to it in private. And it is of course totally ridiculous that if I purchased that RIGHT to listen (and not own said work), that right is limited to a platform. Since I, as a human being, can only listen with one set of ears, even if I had 1.000 copies of the same track, I could still only listen to one at a time (well, I know technically, but who would want to kill his ears like that, right LOL). So I’d still be within the right I bought.

Clearly stuff like backups and such is even more ridiculous.

All in all, the industry has started a process many many years ago to “protect” their old way of life and that whole protection thing has now become an industry on it’s own that is fighting first to preserve it’s own right of existence and only secondly serve the best interest of the industry they sprang from. And that industry would be off so much better spending all that time, money, effort and energy into positive ways of creating added value, which is the only thing people are willing to pay for.

Even the most willing customer will go on his hind legs if, once he’s paid for something, has to pay for it again because the bullies that sold him something in the first place are afraid they’ll miss out on a dime here and there.

Just my two cents.