Sunday, July 27, 2003

Online Music. Good article here -- one point: All the online music services sell you low quality compressed versions of the tracks.  When I buy a CD, I can rip tracks off of it and compress them any way I'd like.  I can create a lower quality, high compression version for my portable MP3 player; I can create a higher quality version that gets stored on my computer or pushed to CD for the car. What I'd like to see is some kind of study that looks at these online services and figures out exactly how much of the cash is going to artists.  After all, the mantra of the RIAA is that they "saving artists", and paying them.  Fine -- let's see the numbers.  The RIAA wants laws and courts to back their positions.  That costs society a lot of money, to pay for all that enforcement.  Is this really going to help artists, or is it just solidifying in law the middleman posistion of the RIAA... 11:27:23 PM    comment []