Re: copying dvd's to hard drive

From: Captain Dondo (yan_at_NsOeSiPnAeMr.com)
Date: 09/12/03 

Date: Fri, 12 Sep 2003 06:02:13 -0400

On Thu, 11 Sep 2003 22:44:27 +0000, Alan Connor wrote:

>> Do you know how much a small artist actually makes from the sale of
>> their CDs by a large company? $0.
>>
>>
> That's nonsense. They make a small amount and millions of times a small
> amount is a LARGE amount.

Most small artists sign away their rights when they cut their first album.
 From that point on, the recording studio gets the $$$, and the artists
get squat. Why do you think so many new artists are coming out on unknown
labels? Because they get to keep the rights to their music, and make more
from far less distribution.

>> And have you actually tried to get the major companies to give you
>> rights to play/copy their music? I tried. It took months; persistent
>> phone calls, emails, etc. One of three eventually replied; I got the
>> right to play the music, but I still can't get anone to tell me if I
>> can copy it.
>>
>>
> It's their property.

You miss the point. I need to make copies of music for a legitimate use.
I only need to make single quantity copies. I've written, emailed, and
called. No one in the music industry will even talk to you unless you
want to make 250 copies or more. So, I have a choice: forget about what
I'm trying to do, or do it without consent. Is it illegal? I don't
know; the assorted companies won't even tell me that.

The whole entertainment industry is geared towards large productions,
large profits, and the little guy (and the consumer) be damned. It's no
wonder people are fed up with the attitude.

>
>> Most of the piracy is caused by the attitude of the largest companies,
>> and the rampant law breaking is simply a rebelion against their greed
>> and profiteering.
>>
> The rationalizations of a thief. All criminals can justify their
> actions.
>

OK, so I'm a criminal. (Not, I don't pirate anything.) I am fed up with
the arrogance of a handful of major companies. I'd love to see the
internet open up new venues for fresh acts. Or are you going to tell me
that the current generation of music "artists" is anything but a bunch of
hand picked prettyboys and girls, packaged and overproduced for maximum
profit, and talent be damned?

And you know what, maybe the music industry ought to go the way of linux.
Use recorded music as advertising to get people to come to concerts.
Profit from concerts, not CDs. But that would cut out the major recording
studios, and then the artists would make money.... Why else would your
group choose to play live? There must be more money in it for them.....

-Dondo

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