If you pirate music, you're downloading communism!

[trev]

good idea, why don't you run prs?

in fact live performance copyright royalties use this system

you tell prs where you have played over the past year
you tell them the songs on your set-list
they pay a royalty divided between the songwriters

trouble is, unless you are big and play in big venues all the time, the 
royalty to be divided between the set list songwriters is £5
so if you have personally written 50% (rare in most bands) of all your live 
material, you will have to do 20 gigs to make £50 (how much will your petrol 
bill be?)

judge trev

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From: "Steve Pond" <Steve at DOREMI.CO.UK>
Sent: Friday, March 27, 2009 2:27 PM
To: <BOC-L at LISTSERV.ISPNETINC.NET>
Subject: Re: If you pirate music, you're downloading communism!

> On Fri, 27 Mar 2009 07:29:26 -0400, you sent through the ether:
>
>>Very few
>>ever go to live concerts. Most download music illegally. Is it still a
>>mystery why I'm standing on this soapbox?
>
>
> I think we're missing the big picture here, which is people do the
> easiest thing.
>
> Pre-Internet the easiest way to listen to music of your choice was to
> buy a record. 2nd choice was to tape it off a friend, third choice was
> to tape it from the radio.
>
> The benefit of option 1) was that the quality was higher, but people
> still went for the easiest option. Nobody wanted to pay, but they had
> no choice so they did.
>
> Now we can get a generation 1 copy for free on the Internet because
> it's the easiest option, why buy it from itunes? the free option
> involves the same amount of mouse clicks, but it's free.
>
> All that needs to happen is we make the easiest way to obtain music,
> the way that gets people paid..
>
> And the only way I can think of is a "media licence" much like we in
> the UK pay a TV licence, so when you "release" some music you register
> it with the licensing body they then give you your slice of the pie,
> as time goes on that could be based on downloads, or maybe media
> players "phone home" & say what's being played the most... or most
> likely the Internet will be so prevalent there will be no need to
> download, you just "play" on demand, and thus know the true play stats
> and the licence fee can be carved up accurately.
>
> Complicated old world innit!
>
> -S.
>
>