From: owner-ecto-digest@smoe.org (ecto-digest) To: ecto-digest@smoe.org Subject: ecto-digest V10 #46 Reply-To: ecto@smoe.org Sender: owner-ecto-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-ecto-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk ecto-digest Monday, February 16 2004 Volume 10 : Number 046 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Music shareware (was: Re: MP3s) ["Michael Pearce" ] Re: Music shareware (was: Re: MP3s) [andrew fries Subject: Music shareware (was: Re: MP3s) On Sunday, February 8, 2004, at 09:10 AM, Wade Alberty wrote: > Sorry in advance if this is a question that has been hashed over > before, but > I was just wondering what everyone's take was on MP3s and P2P Music > trading? I'm a little late to this thread, but it reminds me of an idea I've been gnawing on for a while. I would like to see a web site with the names and addresses of musicians where I could send a check for any CDs I pirate. The address would have to be independent of the record company so they could neither track nor steal the shareware fees. Each artist could declare what a fair fee would be for each copied track, or full album. It would either be what they get from the sales of their CDs, or what they _should_ be getting if they weren't getting ripped of by the record company. Such a site would need a lot of publicity so it would have to handle the bandwidth. Maybe artists could set up a paypal link or just a PO Box. The publicity would somehow have to reach not only millions of consumers, but the artists as well. How best to do this? Maybe I should send this idea to Janis Ian; she hates the record companies and the RIAA as much as we do. Any thoughts? Michael ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 16 Feb 2004 14:07:41 +1100 From: andrew fries Subject: Re: Music shareware (was: Re: MP3s) Michael Pearce wrote: > I would like to see a web site with the names and addresses of musicians > where I could send a check for any CDs I pirate. The address would have > to be independent of the record company so they could neither track nor > steal the shareware fees. Each artist could declare what a fair fee > would be for each copied track, or full album. It would either be what > they get from the sales of their CDs, or what they _should_ be getting > if they weren't getting ripped of by the record company. But if an artist is signed, would that be even *legal* for them to collect revenue independently of their label? ... considering that it is the recording company and not themselves who own the rights to their CD? I don't really know one way or another - just wondering. ------------------------------ End of ecto-digest V10 #46 **************************