Door slammed on Cdn music industry's bid to obtain names of file sharers

[SidDithers]

And the battle rages on...

Door slammed on Cdn music industry's bid to obtain names of file sharers

Sid

[SkiMan]

1. good

canada will remain my filesharing paradise!

[newyawker99]

4. Hi SkiMan!!

Welcome to DU!! :toast:

[dammit905]

2. All of this anti-file sharing nonsense is ridiculous.

Clear Channel and other corporate media owners are a menace to society, and art specifically. People who like shitty music are free to sample it on the radio, but people who are actually interested in artistic value usually hear about new music through word of mouth or underground forums and such, and really don't have any way to sample music except through file-sharing. This is all the industry's attempt to completely control the type of music we have access to, and it's disgusting, frankly. Fuck Clear Channel, and fuck the greedy recording industry that's destroying good music. And fuck the stupid people who don't care. End of rant.

[NashVegas]

5. Welcome to DU, Dammit!

I hate to break it to you, but that's how they want it - the labels and the programmers, that is. People who are "actually interested in artistic value" are fewer in number and want to be more challenged than the average music buyer.

One guy sitting in an office in NYC or LA who decides where the promotional budgets are going to go, vs 1 million people who love the stuff whether they're getting paid to get people to hear it or not. In a free market, that guy wouldn't stand a chance. So they do what they can to insure their job security.

If music lovers were really serious, they'd organize themselves into a national, monthlong boycott - no radio, no recorded music purchases.

[madrchsod]

3. to bad it`s canada

no such luck here in the usa with our democrat-republican assault on filesharing.