Re:Obama Supports $675,000 File Sharing Verdict
by RyanMcGreal on Wednesday January 20, 2010 @04:17PM
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On the other side of the ledger we find this famous quote from Tim O'Reilly:
> Obscurity is a far greater threat to authors and creative artists than piracy.
Re:Obama Supports $675,000 File Sharing Verdict
by mrcharles on Wednesday January 20, 2010 @04:57PM
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Yeah. I've never seen any solid stats, and I hate using my gut as an information source, but my gut tells me that piracy has been a much larger help to artists. I've seen a few news articles that imply it. Piracy is a threat to labels, but really, when a musician can grab Garage Band and a few thousand bucks of hardware and publish his own music... do we need labels?
Re:Obama Supports $675,000 File Sharing Verdict
by jonny_noog on Wednesday January 20, 2010 @06:42PM
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What I find amusing is this argument I've heard a few times coming from the labels that goes along the lines of that we need their expertise in order to produce and discern the "quality" music... Because they do such a good job of that usually.
"It may be time to dust off that old issue of Wired, because the RIAA is succeeding where 10 years of hectoring by the Cypherpunks failed. [...] Note that the broadening adoption of encryption is not because users have become libertarians, but because they have become criminals; to a first approximation, every PC owner under the age of 35 is now a felon."