The internet and cd's changed everything. Sure you were able to record to tape but now it's all digital. There is no loss in sound quality like there were with tapes or records when you record audio, so people have less of an incentive to buy the better quality original like they used to. The internet also reaches millions of people, tapes made by some guy on the street didn't, that's another whammy against the artist and record company.
Plus, so many bands and individual artists make their own cd's or own small recording companies on their dime and time, it's not just huge mega corporations that are losing money, is it fair to them?
People feel like they are now entitled to someone else's hard work without paying for it, what's up with that? Just buy the record or cd or whatever and this becomes a non issue and the government/corporation won't have a need to intrude.
Individual bands will lose.
But the technological leap is allowing bands to get their music out and then they are making much more money on ttheir tours and gigs and extra activities than they were before the internet.
I think this whole internet-infringement deal in the name of copyright is fcuking up both the technological advancement, and also creating a Big Brother society we don't want.
And don't give me the bullshit about that we already have it. Ok, if we already have it, give me a reason why it should be fcuking exteneded?
I used to be of the opinion that there should be some type of tax and some type of measuring tool for the traffic. so that a tracker, an unpartial tracker would count what files were shared. But after listening to the pirate activists, I've come to admit that I've been wrong about the whole thing. That I've had an outdated way of thinking.
We need to apply the same type of democratic principles as always on the internet. Look at the individual freedom and guard it.
