Goal is to provide forum “where everyone can get together and work things through intelligently, and without acrimony.”
Jon Newton over at P2Pnet had a conversation with Billy Bragg, English alternative rock musician and member of the Featured Artists Coalition (FAC), recently to discuss how artists and their fans can can come together to decide how best to create a stable digital music business for the 21st century.
Bragg is an outspoken critic of efforts to fight illegal file-sharing. He’s said in the past that artists should be able to “decide when their music should be used for free, or when they should have payment,” that ultimately fighting illegal P2P will be a costly, long-term endeavor with absolutely no guarantee that any savings, if even achieved at all, will wind up in the hands of artists as the record labels promise.”
He also pointed out recently that while record labels spend millions in a fruitless battle targeting teen file-sharers, its “real enemies,” those sites profiting from P2P, “are disappearing off the radar into darknets.”
Unlike UK pop singer Lily Allen, whom called P2P a “disaster” for emerging artists, Bragg thinks it’s “vital” for them to “flourish.”
Moreover, he thinks the real solution, as should any sane person, to it all, is to create viable digital alternatives that offer music fans what they want while earning the industry a profit.
That being sad Bragg and Jon devised a list of what they call “vital aspects” for digital music in the 21st century.
It reads:
- Creators want, and need, to be paid for their work, and we, as music lovers, want to pay them.
- Trying to use technical sanctions to solve the ‘pirate’ problem won’t work — no way, no how.
- We need to start talking, and keep on talking, until we’ve found ways to resolve the various issues that’ve been keeping us apart.
- We need a space on the net where everyone can get together and work things through intelligently, and without acrimony.
With these four pillars, if you will, in mind, they plan to launch a new blog sometime in the near future so that every one can meet and have a forum to discuss the problems and suggest solutions.
It’s an honest and heartfelt attempt to solve a problem that both music artists and their file-sharing fans agree exists, but more often than not disagree on how best to solve it.
Now we have an opportunity for both to work together and change that.
Stay tuned.
jared@zeropaid.com
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“Unlike UK pop singer Lily Allen, whom called P2P a “disaster” for emerging artists, Bragg thinks it’s “vital” for them to “flourish.””
Well at least he supports it but thats not what he said before
“Bragg is an outspoken critic of efforts to fight illegal file-sharing. He’s said in the past that artists should be able to “decide when their music should be used for free, or when they should have payment,” that ultimately fighting illegal P2P will be a costly, long-term endeavor with absolutely no guarantee that any savings, if even achieved at all, will wind up in the hands of artists as the record labels promise.””
Also if you restrict something, that only means that it will be more available in most cases. Kind of like those classified documents that are restricted and whatnot you can find at a lot of places.
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