Comments on: Songwriter on P2P: “Artists Can Play Live Shows, We Can’t”

By: Andy

Andy — Fri, 25 Sep 2009 16:14:46 +0000

When I stop working, I stop getting paid… why are they any different?

Its called savings and pensions. Why should they sit on their arse for the next 30 years.

Wanna get paid? work some more.

By: Erik

Erik — Fri, 18 Sep 2009 04:53:07 +0000

Note the ABBA: this isn’t the ’70s anymore! P2P is here to stay. Embrace a new business model or fail.

By: kopimi

kopimi — Thu, 17 Sep 2009 05:14:31 +0000

stfu no one here cares what you think, if you wanna talk to someone who does call the riaa

By: Reasonable

Reasonable — Thu, 17 Sep 2009 04:19:44 +0000

Both sides are unreasonable. Content providers are too fucking greedy, I can’t stress this enough. At the same time, wanting everything for “free” isn’t exactly fair either. But the industry has brought this on itself.
REASONABLE would be charging $1 for a good song, $10 for a good piece of software. Not $15 for a shit album or $300 for a crap OS that you are almost forced to use. Fair and even bargain prices would almost eliminate “piracy”, just look at Itunes for example. Everything could model after this. If they started out fairly, they wouldn’t be in this mess. I for one look at it as retribution, you ripped off the public for years, now their getting a little bit back, so suck it.

By: mountain_rage

mountain_rage — Wed, 16 Sep 2009 23:07:42 +0000

I cannot post, nor can I use the contact us section. Posting sends me to a white blank page and contact us just stays in perpetual thinking mode. You really foobared the site this time with your goat porn browsing habits.

By: Mr. Briggs

Mr. Briggs — Wed, 16 Sep 2009 21:59:39 +0000

The songwriters. That’s who gives a fuck.

By: World Anarchy

World Anarchy — Wed, 16 Sep 2009 16:06:44 +0000

‘All this is, of course, reward in itself, but a prerequisite for the existence of these songs is almost always that their author can afford to devote himself entirely to cultivating his talent.’

Well, what stops us from creating a society where people are free to cultivate their talents, without fear of homelessness or starvation?

Is it shortage of food? Far from it; the world produces more food than it consumes and has been doing so for some time.

Is it shortage of housing? Hardly; there is more than enough of that as well, especially if we take empty warehouses and office blocks into consideration.

Is there a general lack of production capacity? Hardly – on the contrary production is far below maximum capacity in virtually every industry you care to name.

And that’s the problem. We can create a society where people can follow their talents without fear of starvation, homelessness, etc… – but we have economic institutions (such as absentee ownership) which stand in the way because they keep production far below the maximum in order to maximize profit.

And it is those institutions, not file-sharing, that need to be abolished.

By: anonymous

anonymous — Wed, 16 Sep 2009 09:36:42 +0000

Sorry, but I have no sympathy, I know a LOT of songwriters because I live in Nashville. The vast majority of the ones I know are song writers part time, for no other reason than they hope they will get lucky and hit that one money shot so they can just pull in royalties. They don’t do it for the art, or the music, just the cash. Screw that.

I hope they all go broke, and this can only help things. If the business end of the music industry becomes less profitable, then the people who are just in it for the money will go become lawyers or something, and leave music for Musicians.

By: anonymous

anonymous — Wed, 16 Sep 2009 08:37:23 +0000

What’s hard is finding good music.

By: anonymous

anonymous — Wed, 16 Sep 2009 08:31:33 +0000

Poets don’t make much money these days. One third of songwriting is lyrics then there is melody and harmony. It’s not as hard as one might think to write a song. Some suck, some are good and some are great, but often times it’s all up to production to make a good song great—the producer and engineer do that. Songwriting is more like a hobby than a job. Rather than waste time watching tv write a song. But as for spending every waking moment of your life writing songs that’s a waste. Get a job songwriters. This is coming from someone who is just about to finish a bachelor degree in music composition.