Ramblings From Justin Penney

The RIAA seeks digital radio limits to limit piracy. Of course... I mean you wouldn't want people to hear somehting and maybe buy it after hearing it. Ther's a big hubbub about software that lets you record these streams after they are decoded. Oh. Wow... the digital equivalent of the tape recorder. I recorded so many songs off of the radio during the 80s and I still bought tapes, and the major labels still made money and they are still around. They need to go after Radio Shack too, I mean, they sell cables and you cuold hook the output of your soundcard into the input and record it with sound recorder... oh crap, better get after Microsoft now they make copyright circumvention software.

I recently watched a lecture given by Steve Albini and he gave examples of all sorts of things that were sure to "ruin the music industry:" the printing press (to print sheet music and put it in the hands of the masses), the player piano (put piansts out of work), radio (who would go to a concert when there was radio), albums (you could hear it whenever you wanted), cassettes (you could record whatever you wanted). He also cited the whoel Metallica bootleg tape (No Life 'til Leather) which they encouraged people to bootleg and was how they gained their fame then they turn their back on the method that made them famous.

# posted by Justin @ 6:41 PM