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Nothing has changed, pirating occured and still occurs 50 years later

Before P2P people traded music via FTP, News groups, and IRC. You couldn't search these like you can with P2P so finding new interesting music was difficult. You were left with finding what you heard through promotion which is controled by the RIAA members that being radio, awards show, and music videos.

Before the Internet people burned CD of music and trade them but once again the impact of new independent music was limited and not a threat to the RIAA members.

Before CD burners it was cassette tapes and the same thing little impact in terms of new independent music though the grunge era started this way.

Before cassette tapes it real to real recordings and that too had little impact from independent artists.

The big differnce today with P2P is not the ease of swapping files but the fact the technology to record a quality recording is considerably less costly for an artist and they can flood P2P with thier tunes.

Now the question you have to ask is why wasn't copyright infringement a problem with real to real tape recorders, cassette tape recorders, CD burners, and common internet protocols? The music industry seemed to actually thrive in this underground distribution of copyright material. Only when the threat of independent artist bypassing them showed up did the RIAA freak out.

It's not P2P it's the fact that for $500 you can turn you PC, assuming you already have one, into a recording studio. For $20,000 you can have professional setup. What used to cost prohibitive for artist happened come down to more realistic prices at the same time that Napster came out. That's the problem.

I'm not arguing that copyright infringement not illegal just saying it's always happen and it will continue. Business as usual and in 10 year there won't be any middle men. In the mean time we as consumers get attacked and stupid laws are being passed.

Posted by: voska   Posted on: 08/24/04 You are currently: a Guest | Members login | Terms of Use

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