| OK let me put my 2 cents on this.
First let me shocc Hsoolien saying I don't think this law is stupid. I actually think its a very good law. Sorry had to get that out. The problem I have with it is that why its becomming a law. RIAA, Record Companies and so on are trying to find more ways to get their money bacc that they declair they lost to piracy. The law will only hurt Artist.
Piracy does hurt sales but it also helps sales in some ways. Since mostly so many people are burning their own mix cds, when your in your friends car and they playing them you hear stuff you haven't yet and want to hear more from the artist. I play alot of indie (Independent/Unsigned Artist) and can't even tell you the number of people who bought their albums just becuase they hear me playing it and they wanted to hear more from them.
This law will never come to the US. Trust me on this. Radio Station DJs are not about to pay $350/yr just to play other people's music.
It would be alot different if they started off with this law but I refuse to pay to do something that has been free for so long. Why you think I don't buy bottle water. You can't give something free to people for so long and then end up charing them so many years later for doing the exact same thing. |