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>Did you ever think of writing an article about this and sending to some
>publication - wired, or some music based publication (non-industry of
>course...but then again....).
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Yes, Kool's "article" was very interesting, fully agreed!

>You seem more than half-way to having figured out a viable alternative to
>press(ure)play and its ilk.
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Not really. He's just mentioned what already exists: the alternatives. 
What you mention below is "the alternative" to "end" the power of the 
majors: refusing to sign with them!

>Incidentally anybody see this yet?
>http://www.wired.com/news/mp3/0,1285,50625,00.html
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Yes, very interesting. It'll be interesting to see how it evolves. I'm 
not sure the majors will win, since all contracts say that the majors 
have "an exclusive licence" and not "ownership". However, since the 
artists are paid for their sales etc, and promoted etc, I think they 
stand a good chance of winning it.

Also, the alternative is mentioned in that alternative: every artist 
will have to sue Napster himself. I'm an artist: do I have the money to 
sue Napster, from my little town in Belgium? Nope. So either artists 
come up with a platform for suing together, or Napster is saved by a 
court ruling. And even in the case of an artist platform, you're very 
close again to the platform of the record companies....

>the plot thickens! If the record companies cant actually prove ownership of
>the copyrights it'll set a nice precedent which will hopefully serve to stop
>their attempt to get a throttle hold on music creation, promotion,
>distribution etc...
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No-one prevents an artist to do everything by themselves or use the 
alternatives.

>What we really need is for EVERY new artist to refuse to sign away the
>rights to their music.
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Exactly. If you don't like the majors, then this is your best and only 
solution.

But I simply don't see why so many people hate the majors. Please 
explain to me. I'd love to understand your point of view (and I think I 
can counter many arguments with reasonable facts).

>we live in interesting times...
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That's for sure!!!

Bye,
Joeri

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