So apparently college students and grandparents are not the only ones ignoring copyright laws to get the music they want. A recent article on describes the hypocrisy of the records labels, who are being sued for using tracks they do not own the copyrights on.
They have apparently admitted to violations totaling over 50 Million dollars (by the way this is not 50 Million music copyright infringing dollars, it is 50 million real dollars.
To convert to copyright dollars, I’m going to average it at 2000:1, so the price the average college student would be charged by the RIAA for the same amount of music theft would be 100,000,000,000
Dollars (100 billion dollars). Maybe GM could get in on that.
Artists are starting to stand up for themselves. As the article reported, “Just a few months ago Latin America’s biggest artist, Alejandro Fernández, sent the police to a Sony Music office to confiscate over 6,000 CDs that the label refused to return, and this is just the tip of the iceberg.”
There is a lot of talk of how the record companies are hurting, but when they pull the same tricks they say are killing their companies, I have little to no sympathy for them.
I'm glad that this issue has been mentioned. The media seems to only mention music sharers as the culprits of copyright enfringement while record companie have been committing the same crime, if not more, for years before consumers even had the technology to do so. The hypocrisy that exists within the music industry is something that needs to be a bigger part of the coversation when discussing copyright enfringement and if the music industry really wants to establish credibility in their witch hunt for music pirating they should first get a handle on their own issues before chastizing the public.
ReplyDeleteAgreed, Record companies have gotten away with quite a bit of abuse and infringement especially upon foriegn music. Though I have lately been of the mind that the whole copyright regime needs to be reworked to better advance new forms of creativity.
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