Slashdot Log In
Canadian Music Stars Fight Against DRM
Posted by
samzenpus
on Wed Apr 26, 2006 08:34 PM
from the it's-ok-to-share-eh dept.
from the it's-ok-to-share-eh dept.
An anonymous reader writes "Some of Canada's best known musicians, including Avril Lavigne, Sarah
McLachlin, Sum 41, and Barenaked Ladies, have formed a new copyright coalition.
The artists say in a press
release that they oppose file sharing lawsuits, the use of DRM, and
DMCA-style legislation and that they want record labels to stop
claiming that they represent their views."
This discussion has been archived.
No new comments can be posted.
The Fine Print: The following comments are owned by whoever posted them. We are not responsible for them in any way.
Full
Abbreviated
Hidden
Loading... please wait.
well duh (Score:5, Funny)
For once (Score:5, Funny)
Re:For once (Score:5, Funny)
Parent
repeat in america please.... (Score:5, Funny)
Re:repeat in america please.... (Score:5, Funny)
Canada's low gun ownership rate will make the occupation much easier.
Parent
It's a shame its too late for Sarah's last album (Score:5, Interesting)
Just last week I saw the Sarah McLachlan DVD and thought, "stupid drm" and not about the artist. I will force myself to see her in a better light now, but if she's not touring near me, I can't exactly give her the money I want to (by buying her material) because although she's going the right away about things _now_, her cds on the shelf are still DRMed.
In the end I was forced to I download Afterglow. I became a pirate because I couldnt experience the music on my, and on my creative zen.
For an artist I discovered via napster a long time ago, this sure does suck. Are they trying to lock me out of the market, or really fence us into a no-rip-no-choice era? Either way I see it, when I can't use WhateverAMP and my mp3 player, they've lost me as a customer.
Matt
Legal Download (Score:5, Informative)
Parent
"Piracy" is good for the RIAA (Score:5, Insightful)
First of all, like RMS, I hate applying the term "piracy" to non-commercial copyright violations, so I won't use that term. Instead, I'll call it what it is, unauthorized copying.
Unauthorized copying is to the RIAA what "terrorism" is to the Bush Adminstration, namely, a scapegoat and a straw man argument with which to justify draconian legislation and to garner (barely) sufficient public support for any new legislation favoured by both institutions.
As the Bush Adminstration maintains the conditions (ex: War on Iraq) to indirectly promote terrorism, it justifies renewing the Patriot Act on the basis that it will "help stop terrorism". To make a blatantly obvious statement, the goal of the Patriot Act does not in any way, shape, or form have anything whatsoever to do with stop terrorists, but is instead intended to grant the government the ability to further spy on and control its citizens.
In the same vein, I believe that the RIAA wishes to maintain a certain level of unauthorized copying because it will allow them to justify legislation such as the DMCA and the broadcast flag. The goal of such legislation is not to eliminate or even substantially reduce unauthorized copying, but to maintain control over the industry and keep out fledging competitors, such as independent artists who would have otherwise been promoted through P2P, and to maintain their antiquated business models, which for all intents and purposes should have become obsolete.
So, it's all an elaborate shell game on their part.
If I had a million dollars... (Score:5, Funny)
"But we would download torrents! In fact, we'd just download more!"
Record companies smarter than they seem (Score:5, Funny)
Not suprising from Avril Lavigne... (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Not suprising from Avril Lavigne... (Score:5, Insightful)
Parent
Excellent news (Score:5, Insightful)
It looks like at least a few artists have come to realize that the music industry cartel's stand on DRM is not helpful to artists. If they can get more artists on the bandwagon, they may be able to influence the debate. It's a helluva lot more difficult for the labels to convince people that DRM "helps artists" when the artists themselves are against it.
Broken Social Scene - their action (Score:5, Interesting)
I actually bought the copy-protected one (which wasn't labeled as such) and the label offered to replace it. HMV wouldn't.
Great! (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Great! (Score:5, Funny)
Parent
Hypocrisy with Barenaked Ladies? (Score:5, Informative)
The Barenaked Ladies' Ed Robertson also wades in with, "I'm totally fine with people downloading music, as long as they steal everything that they want. If you want pants, go steal them. If you need gas in your car, you should steal it, because you can. As long as people are consistent I don't have a problem. As long as they see themselves as thieves in general then I don't mind if they steal everything that they like. But it irks me that it's only okay to steal music."
So at least one of them is against sharing/downloading.
write to them and say thank you (Score:5, Interesting)
Proud to be a Canadian today.
P.S. I especially like what's on their front page as the #1 bullet:
1. Suing Our Fans is Destructive and Hypocritical
Well duh?! When was that last time you saw a successful business model where you sue the pants out of your customers?
Re:write to them and say thank you (Score:5, Funny)
Well if you were in the business of selling more pants
Parent
Avril Lavigne? Sum 41? (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Serious question (Score:5, Insightful)
Parent
My first guess. (Score:5, Insightful)
However my guess would be that it is something along the lines of
- Her label did it, not her
- She is opposed to her label having done it, and
- This is why she is starting a public pressure group specifically designed to get her label to stop doing such things.
Perhaps you will suggest that Sarah McLachlan should have used her leverage as an artist with the label to prevent them from engaging in such practices with her music at the time the CD was released. If you do this, I will laugh until I pass out from lack of oxygen.Parent
Re:Avril Lavigne, Sarah McLachlin (Score:5, Funny)
No need to post as AC to admit that. Now, if you'd said Gordon Lightfoot and Bryan Adams on the other hand...
Parent
Re:That just shows (Score:5, Funny)
I don't know anything about the person or her music, but that name always sounds like a feminine hygiene product to me.
Parent
Re:Missing Artist (Score:5, Funny)
Parent