Creative Criminals

“How are they supposed to make a living when everyone downloads their work for free?.”

What a joke, Kurt Cobain would be rolling over in his grave.
All these bands could still “make a living” only from the merchandise they sell. And they would still be rich because of all the shows the’d do.

If it is your goal to gain sympathy with this ad, wrong move. The people that made these albums have made so much money over time, that it seems outright greedy to ask for even more money. Shame on you, Rolling Stones Magazine.

OMG; did the downloader kill Led Zeppelin?

Cool result. Copy over copy over copy.

Seems like copying is the way to innovation. Everytime a little change and in the end something new is created.

Well this is ofcourse also what musicians do. Copy and change, change and copy, copy and change. Words and sounds, sounds and words. And then after enough copying a new song is born.

Paul McCartney can afford to give his ex-wife millions of dollars of alimony and we are supposed to keep buying something he wrote over 40 years ago?

Seems to me like RS did not fully understand how sharing music works.
Lol’d at “all those legendary albums will disappear”. How would that work?

What a BS about copying…. This is the digital age. Digital copies from digital copies stay the same. This is no longer the audiocassette age.
Rolling Stone Magazine is shooting itself in the foot with this.
Do not bite the hand that feeds you.

Rock and musicians in general are supposed to be creative minds. Let’s get creative and look for new ways to sell your music instead of just cd’s.

Led Zeppelin wants money for something they “borrowed” themselves?

http://www.turnmeondeadman.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=45&Itemid=55

‘Copy on, and one day all these legendary albums will disappear.’
Absolute bull. These albums are already legendary and have only gotten more and more legendary by the power of the internet.

Just stop whining and invent a new business model before you’re obsolete.

Here is the reason why we don’t feel bad about downloading:

http://mikefrangos.files.wordpress.com/2009/12/funny-graphs-downloading-illegally.jpg

I don’t download music any more. And I certainly don’t but it. I just rent it. Use Spotify!

shame on you RS, rock ‘n roll is about kicking against the rules society makes so downloading is rock ‘n roll.
copying music is as old as music itself, in the early ‘50 records got bootlegged by drugstores whit a recording boot. but elvis still became king and johnny cash the man in black, these people mostly survived by climbing on stage for a live performance. this was carriedon way on in the sixtie’s until the beatles decided not to preforme live anymore, other bands followd.
then in the early ‘70 home recording equipment appeared on the market, like the cassette-player. again artists where forced to go on live.
and now we have the internet, after the music industries shuffed there cd’s down oure trouts we discoverd that we where able to share digital
music on a digital machine firts by mIRC later by an easier to use program called napster, and again the artist have to work instead of having the easy life in the studio.
and this is a good thing course rock ‘n roll isn’t sitting at home listening to a reccord, its about seeing your favorite band preform live in a concert or at a festival and getting your rocks off….

The creative industry is dying, almost all creativity is gone. All due to us, the people that love music. If the music industry doesn’t change when times are changing who are we to change? This industry should look at it’s position in today’s society and realise it is just another money loving corporate ordinary thing… lagging behind.

“Copy on, and one day all these legendary albums will disappear. And the great bands.”
The albums have spread all over the world, there are millions of copies. Disappear? No way. Yes, great bands disappear, it something called death that knocks on your door. This will happen to everyone someday, death likes drugs and alcohol.
“And all the gifted young musicians. How are they supposed to make a living when everyone downloads their work for free?” Gifted young musicians need a record label, this label is the owner of their work. Without a label they can’t enter the world of the music industry. But hey, internet could change this. People can upload their work for free to numerous websites, other people can enjoy it and before you know it you could be famous… but then come the record labels to make you sign a contract. Nice work, creativity gone.

What about a new business model, dear creative industry. Or does that mean you have to be creative?

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Does anyone else see Jesus in the Abbey Road image?

Without copying, there wouldn’t be music at all. All music is based on other music, there is not such a thing as ‘authentic’, ‘original’ or ‘autonomous’ music. Every musician is standing on the shoulders of all other musicians that went before him. Who is Rolling Stone to tell that people can’t stand on the shoulders of the musicians of the present? Rolling Stone is an irrelevant 1.0 medium in a 2.0 world.

Interested in this topic? Visit the Incubate Pirate Conference in september: http://incubate-innovation.org/

You can copy my music as much as you want and give it to your friends.
I’m happy if 100 people show up at a live concert.
But if this makes me famous, then I want you to PAY.
By that time I will sue you if you download for free, and will totally forget how I got famous.

Well, that’s typical for the music industry. Ok, let’s give them a little lesson. Digital copying is not like analog copying: the copy is just as good as the original as long as you use a lossless encoding scheme like FLAC or TIFF. A big no-no is MP3 or JPG. But even a MP3 doesn’t deteriorate as long as you don’t decode-encode it.

So with digital copying these wonderful albums will survive forever, may be even better than in the hands of the music industry, because these guys have lost more than one mastertape, since – frankly – they don’t care a damn about music. As several famous artists have clearly stated.

So, there are more copies, so one lost isn’t that bad. And new bands? They come as they always came. They make more from alternative channels (like donations from torrents) than the 5 cents they get from iTunes.

Yes, my dear people, a new era has arrived. So don’t care too much about these dinosaurs who are still talking about vinyl (REALLY, see: BUMA/STEMRA press conference, the Netherlands 2009). A new digital age has arrived. Without DRM. With proper compensation for the artists. Without money making art devouring machines like the “music industry”. Let’s laugh about these Xerox metaphors from these dying entities. Rejoice!

This campaign is BS on the Basis that DIGITAL copies lose no quality over generation to generation, unlike analog copies such as the xerox’s on display above. Copy on! You are only preserving this great music for future generations.

Thanks Eric, we appreciate that!