@It's sooo illegal:
I would highly doubt that a normal user can be prosecuted for stealing effectively.
Why? Because I personally would be able to provide evidence for a couple of thousands of follow-ups on my own.
I am not kidding.
There is public interest to deregulate the Internet from obscure regulations that serve no one as well all IT that is linked to it.
They can't satisfy the companies anyways, because they are not executable.
@Bands: Pitty, but not mine.
It's as I said their own fault. If someone runs himself over with his car starts suing, because it wasn't labeled to be a danger, it's one thing. If someone runs about trying to exploit this by researching the market for a niche and making a profit from it, he has a very criminal mind and he is
not entitled for getting compensation for what he does.
If someone for example searches out microwaves that would miss the "don't dry pets" sticker just to sue them, after getting a doggie for the only purpose of killing it of in the machine, he has malevolent intent.
So do the copyright holders and all content producing agents, that work to create content for them.
All of this issues the content industry is *****ing about, have malevolent intent so thickly layered spread out all over them, that I have no desire to give them compensation for anything, that they did not establish as a decent suiting service after all.
Let me ask you this:
What do you expect people to do? Just conform with their BS?
I already pointed out a doable way.
Do you have any arguments about that?
Go ahead and convince me, I invite you to make a compelling argument in favor of paying for music at all. (Yea, I own some swag, been to a couple of festivals and concerts, etc., that's not what I talk about, what i talk about is the general, on demand, daily listening experience.)
This comes form a genuine interest. I know that you have the right to care more about making work things out in your favor than in mine, I don't complain about that. However from my standpoint, it won't turn me around, it rather reinforces me.
@SR-71:
Well, I would probably prefer as a musician to lower the BreakEven point to about half of the current situation.
Why even dive into a pointless, bad and dead industry to begin with.
Also, you do not loose anything by going this way; If it does not sail, because your music isn't getting a rapport from people, you are not personally devastated for life, because of that.
As to efficient marketing being necessary to make it sail:
If it's not sailing it won't whatever means you put into it (isn't it a humongous benefit to not even go there then?).
Otherwise you can work it out, also again very cheaply, relying on up to date methods of cheap marketing, instead of spending more and more money on less and less impact.
Off to listen to some music...