posted 09-09-2003 12:24 PM            

Being a musician and graphics/animator, I don't like the idea of people not compensating me for my work. On the other hand, I do not like the government, or RIAA goons looking around my drives. Using Mac OSX, it is much more unpenetratable than Windows, but you have to disable file sharing folders in your particular program.
http://www.eff.org/IP/P2P/howto-notgetsued.php

And lower the freakin' prices of CD's. It costs about 25 cents to make one with graphics. Promotion is not that much.

The big studios have also been trying to shut down home brewed studios for years. Another rip-off. They charge $250-500 per hour to record, where you can get the same quality in a home based operation,for around $7,000 total cost, and then it's paid off, and all you have to pay is upkeep and electricity.

posted 09-09-2003 08:49 PM            

I think it boils down to a moral approach..

Pirating "the little guy" robs him/her of a living and otherwise making more music...while NOT pirating big label bands just pumps more money into the hands of THE LABEL CEOs and not the Artist...as much as the band Metallica wants you to believe.

posted 09-09-2003 09:21 PM            

"Pull My Strings"
(My Payola)

By: Dead Kennedys

I'm tired of self respect
I can't afford a car
I wanna be a pre-fab superstar

I wanna be a tool
Don't need no soul
Wanna make big money
Playing rock and roll

I'll make my music BORING
I'll play my music slow
I ain't no artist, I'm a business man
No ideas of my own..

I won't offend
Or rock the boat
Just sex and drugs
And rock and roll

So here we go with....Drool, drool, drool, drool, drool, drool
My Payola!
Drool, drool, drool, drool, drool, drool
My Payola!

You'll pay 90 bucks to see me
On a fifteen foot high stage
Fat@$$ bouncers kick the sh!+
Out of kids who try to dance

If my friends say
I've lost my guts
I'll laugh and say
"That's rock and roll"

But there's just one problem...............

[Chorus]
Is my c*ck big enough?
Is my brain small enough?
For you to make me a star?
Give me a toot, I'll sell you my soul
Pull my strings and I'll go far

(Side bar)

And when I'm rich
And meet Bob Hope
We'll shoot some golf
And shoot some dope

Is my c*ck big enough?
Is my brain small enough?
For you..to make me... a star.
[Repeat chorus, etc. etc.]