Artists who promote file-sharing

[aqlo]

The news story on Moby encouraged me to look around for other artists who support file-sharing, and I found a great link about Fitehouse

http://www.dailyemerald.com/vnews/di...6?in_archive=1

here's an excerpt

Cohen argued that many people misunderstand the role record sales play in an artist's economic survival.

"The whole idea that bands make money from record royalties is somewhat amiss, because there are very few artists who can make money off record sales," he said, noting production costs, and the "dirty little secret" of companies withholding royalties until debts are paid.

"When you sell your own record, you're keeping (the profits) all yourself," Cohen said. He added that all the members of Fitehouse have other jobs, and many bands play for sheer joy rather than monetary gains.

Cohen said Fitehouse is supportive of fans sharing the band's music via the Web. In fact, he encourages listeners to download the group's songs and post them on file sharing sites.

"We would love for people to share our music," he said. "What is interesting is that they claim if you're file sharing, you're stealing from the artists, etc., and that's really not what copyright is all about. The problem is media concentration. Is copyright doing what it was designed to do? Is it really increasing variety? And it's not."

Stolet said that as a professional musician, he doesn't find the quality of the MP3 file format -- by far the most prevalent for exchanging music over the Internet -- good enough for exchanging music. He said high quality requires a greater bandwidth.

However, Stolet was critical of how record labels handle their artists. He said most artists support file sharing because it has minimal effects on the ones creating the music.

"No one cares because it's not hurting the artists -- it's hurting the record companies," he said. "No one feels sorry for the record companies because they've been screwing the artists for so long."

So anyway I bet we all know of a couple of artists with progressive opinions, right? And we all have radically different tastes in music, so that must add up to quite a few. So who are they all, and where can we find them?

[Azathoth]

Also as stated in a past news article "Blur love pirates" (ARRRRGH) also Phish have ther own P2P where you can purchase vids of recent concerts and music too I believe. Bah buy Bah. but thier hearts in the right place and IMHO thats the way it should be: money going direct to the artist, than he pays everyone he needs to pay.

[FutureIverson]

don't forget micheal jackson

[PuNiShErKiLl666]

Originally posted by FutureIverson
don't forget micheal jackson

Please can I forget him for the rest of my life?

[rastilin]

Bless them, bless them so much.:wings

[TC75580]

Radiohead didn't seem to care that their newest album was leaked and illegally downloaded millions of times before it was officially released.

[IshareManyFilez]

I remember on Weezers Green album {only 7 songs}, they said if you don't want to buy it, just download it from Napster. I don't know if its really supporting p2p, but at least they don't care.

[rainbowdemon]

Originally posted by TC75580
Radiohead didn't seem to care that their newest album was leaked and illegally downloaded millions of times before it was officially released.

Some of the opinions I have seen state that Radiohead leaked it deliberatly.

[Azathoth]

"Hail to the Thief" is the name of Radioheads new album. lol

[mojo-ris-in]

For the old timers here don't foget Janis Ian and The Grateful Dead

[Omyn]

IshareManyFilez: Yeah since I cant afford to pay for their cd I think I'll just grab their songs off napster.

Awsome thanks for the idea IshareManyFilez :]