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sorry to say it, but the labels are right. unless the bbc put online their own recordings (which i assume it didn't, else NOBODY IN THE WORLD could have filed a lawsuit). you see, beethoven might be in the open domain, but the recording aren't. so you can put your own transcription of his music...

unfortunately, the price the average customer pays for a cd has absolutely nothing to do with what the artists put in their pocket. by contract they are entitled a percentage from roughly 9% to 20% (some exceptions exist) on the sale price. that, of course, AFTER they have paid back the label to...

i'm not doing either. i tend to sympathise with what you say, because, being an author myself, i do know where you're coming from. nevertheless, what you say often does not have any place in the current intellectual industries, good or bad as that might be. man, ever since i started my musician...

i do. and since the site is still up, despite the incredible amount of hassle that it does create to morrus and to the people running it (i do remember some acidic comments on the front page some time ago), there must be something in it. also, keep in mind that is is a fan site. i don't think...

i second this. this way you are making the pirate doing a moral call. and since i believe that most people behave in a good way (despite what the current laws in their country allow them to do), i believe that most people *would* pay back the publishers if they liked the product.

this simply isn't true. you would have more labours of love, and a higher perchentage of non-professional (whatever that might mean), but, trust me, you wouldn't see a sudden disappearance of new music, literature, physics analysis, and so on. i, for one, would go on composing even if i had...

if you're talking about novels, as far as i know, you do have the copyright of the work and you can do whatever you want with it. you can prevent people from print your book, you can prevent them to put adds into it, you can do as you like. (naturally, the price you have to pay is that you might...

damn them aussies! ;)

in case of RPG, it is true that ethics come a bit more into equation, but it is also true that it's a small and relatively tight community. while we don't personally know, say, monte cook or gary gygax (well, not all of us, and in 99% of the cases, not enough to call them "mates"), we do know...

i can agree with that. what i don't agree on is that we should all accept the USA law system as the best system in the world. or stand peacefully aside when the US megacorporation bribe our politicians to modify our laws, or to introduce taxes bacause of "theft". in europe whenever we buy a...

to be fair, though, life for *some* artists is much much easier these days. that said, i find extremely unfair and infuriating that in my business, music, the industry at large takes advantage of draconic practices, unfair deals, scheming, plotting, illegal actions, ignorace of the artists and...

amen. i find incredible how people forgets that, before cd burning and p2p, and before pdf swapping, there were tapes and photocopies. i had hundreds of tapes, and i still had the best album collection this side of my town (i'm talking vynils... THAT was a secure medium, and it was cracked...

i suggest death penalty. i feel it's much more effective. tell me, please, are you advocating that the USA laws should be "implemented" in other states, as well? the majority of illegal downloads might be in the USA, but if you plan to enforce your laws on non USA citizens who are not living in...

honestly, i don't care about persuading anybody: if it's DRM, i don't even consider downloading it for free (and i mean legally free). besides, things like copy protected cds (which, by the way it's a non-authorised break at the cd standard owned by phillips... funny that these guys don't need...

personally, on a slightly different topic, i see downloaded copies of my music on p2p as free advertisement. call me a stupid, but i really believe that those who like a product will buy it, even when they have the illegal copy.

!!!! 8O!!!! i thought it was atrocious! seriously, if i had forgetten for a moment it had ties with Christ's story, i would have thought i was watching a smuff movie! no offence, but i rate it as the worst film i have ever seen (and that speaks volume, given the amount of crap i use to come...

wait a second! i voted "no" because the question in the poll is different than the one you are asking in the thread. my opinions on a given product is not influenced by the name of the publisher (if a book by, say, green ronin is awful, then it's awful!). on the other hand, expectations *are*...

well, it is true that making a video costs a huge amount of money... but you are absolutely right that being exposed to the music is the key to increase the selling. the majors got angry at the p2p free downloading thing, not because it really hurted the sales (maybe it did, but there were other...

i stopped watching Mtv ages ago (i think it was 1994), but i was never fooled by the hype. i remember very well that when nirvana put nevermind out they had videos in such a high rotation, that it could be dubbed Ntv (N standing for nirvana, of course). the fact that the music was quite better...

i saw those words for the first time in my life. and i got 9 out of 10. i'm scared :uhoh: