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Noticed that IMO Records ( http://www.imorecords.com ) have got this up on there site with more information coming soon...
Sounds like a good idea to me...
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Noticed that IMO Records ( http://www.imorecords.com ) have got this up on there site with more information coming soon...
Sounds like a good idea to me...
Just so you know, this is the hardcore labels working together. There is a thread about it on http://www.ush.net. Here is the link to the thread:
http://www.ush.net/board/viewtopic.php?t=189238
resistance is futile :P
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Stick that in your pipe and smoke it --> http://www.aqpi02.dsl.pipex.com/paidlogo.jpg
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Or this one... http://www.surrenderrecords.net/fileshare.jpg
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Good luck to 'em, but they're fighting a losing battle bless their little cotton socks.
You cannot stop P2P filesharing unless you completely re-engineer the internet, and make totalitarian internet-wide DRM the de facto standard.
That isn't going to happen anytime soon, despite the best efforts of the money hungry cretins running America.
... and nor should it, since P2P has perfectly legal applications too. Many software companies distribute larger applications / ISO images over BitTorrent now, it's the only way to do it without caining your bandwidth.
VCRs did not kill the movie industry, home taping didn't kill music.
On a related note, buy your tunes if you're playing out. I couldn't care less for mixsets, but what kind of nobber downloads GB and GB of unmixed tunes just to listen to? The scene thrives on mixes, and there are literally millions of the buggers freely available. Just ask Conflict.
You might not stop it, in the same way that you aren't ever going to stop shoplifting.Quote:
You cannot stop P2P filesharing unless you completely re-engineer the internet, and make totalitarian internet-wide DRM the de facto standard.
What you can do is educate people and make it less socially acceptable.
One of the main reasons people are stealing music at the moment is because they don't really consider it stealing.
Shoplifting is piss easy. As is dealing drugs. Both activities are illegal and there is always a chance of being caught and punished, however most people don't do it because of social pressures not to.
Make filesharing unpopular and frowned upon and you will have won half the battle.
More often than not its the social pressure not to do something rather than the potential penalties that dissuade people from acting.
Ah, those countless millions that give up a life treading the boards because of social pressure...Quote:
Originally Posted by Jay Pace
I would have been up on stage, had my family and friends not threatened me with murder for bringing disgrace to my borough.
Like the penis owl btw. Much better than the cats.
http://i18.photobucket.com/albums/b1.../technorly.jpg
nice pic :lol: :lol:
i agree with techmouse, and yeah, jay is right, if people are made to see how wrong stealing music is, then we may get somewhere
it;s all about passion! if u really, really love something then u'll go about and buy the original. we'll for me anyway
Its about ownership, years ago it was possible to buy a record and feel some kind of ownership, that little piece of vinyl you bought and religiously listened to held within it something that made the music YOURS. you had that vinyl 7" for a week, you knew the lyrics backwards, you played it to your friends, until you bought the next single.
Now what is left? A silver top CDR you scrawled the artists name on and a 'couldnt give a ****' attitude, if it gets scratched you just burn another one. simple. There isnt ownership of music anymore as a commodity. As something to be treasured. "There's only music so that there's new ring tones" (The arctic monkeys.)
Where does it end? For some people it already has. But i say its the beginning. In the history of music, the means of reproduction of recorded music is only just starting. it has only just become available for ALL to listen to, for ALL to reproduce and to access (I dont count asia or africa in this statement..more of that in a bit.) We are at the beginning of this musical revolution, not the end.
Africa and asia in particular are going to be the place where the real change occurs. There are SO many people living there that i find it inconceivable that there future actions will not have an effect on the music industry. In fact , IMO it looks to me like the current industry is just thrashing around in the death of its current manifestation.
Interesting times ahead.
Can't seem to find what their angle is but it sounds silly already. If anyone truly thinks that hardcore vinyl sales are down because of piracy, I'll counter that it's just the market that has shrank. And this, in my honest opinion, is due to the fact that it has never recovered from turning into the big dick-sucking conformity festival around the time that "newstyle" became the norm. You get a market of DJs that wanted loud, fast and aggressive music who often came from musical scenes that focussed on rebellion. Then, as the popularity contest goes in full swing, you start seeing much more conformity in the sound. With the exception of a few artists here and there, most hardcore that has come out since that time period has bored me to death. And, as a direct result, I stopped buying it. The guys I do like? They send me MP3s, along with most of the general public, before it gets put out on vinyl. They don't seem to be worried for some reason.
Want sales back up? Stop blaming piracy and blame yourself for releasing formulaic predictable shit.
Christ, these are Happycore people complaining? Maybe discussion about closing down or attacking sites that I use to release my own work legitmately, they should start paying for all the vocals and breaks they've lifted? The hypocrissy from the techno community on this shit will never cease to amaze me.
So they should presumably just shut up, roll over and die without a fuss?
What a crappy attitude. These guys are just trying to protect their lot.
Might be a bit futile, but I can't see any reason why this should vex you.
Live and let live.
Not at all...Quote:
Originally Posted by Jay Pace
They should be looking for ways to embrace and exploit the opportunities offered by global high-volume high-quality digital audio distribution at next-to-no cost.
Rather than crying about it and starting campaigns telling people how naughty they are, and lamenting the loss of the good ole' days when exchanging music wasn't so damned easy.
i dunno.. i still have that attitude towards downloads... i check religiously for new releases every day and when i find a gem i can get very secretive about where i got it ... and ALL my cds are kept in as good condition as vinyl, for albums i still try to create a cover with track list for them and even cds with techno eps get a listed cover with artist, trax, label and release date. :lol:Quote:
Originally Posted by dodgyedgy
i think its a love for music that creates the attitude rather than a love for format..
Its just a bit of education. Its not going to single handedly turn around happy hardcore's fortunes, but reminding people to buy rather than steal is hardly something to get pissed off about.Quote:
Originally Posted by TechMouse
Telling people to buy cheap high quality rather than steal free low quality seems to be an straigh forward and well received message.
Im not really referring to the techno community or BOA or DJs in general, the love for the music goes without saying, so in that you are right, im talking about joe public, and inparticular teenagers ir those tweenies.Quote:
Originally Posted by rhythmtech