3 Apr
2005
3 Apr
'05
9:05 a.m.
MarC <marc_contrib(a)ramonvinyes.es>es>:
I raise this issue because I'm starting a musical
project and I would
like to never release any work that could end like
http://www.lokitorrent.com/ when the people shares it, I would like
to use other musicians works (and I can't afford to pay them for such
work now) and I would finally like to win fairly some money making
good music (without this money I will never be able to buy decent
instruments)
is it an utopia?
Marc, I'm flabbergasted. This is 2005. There's no way you could prevent
people from copying or sharing things in the digital domain. DRM is a
joke. The industry that promotes it is a joke. The business model is
gone, don't you know that?
How can anyone *own* music? How did Bach do it? How did Capitol Records
do it? The only way to make that claim to some extent real were
technical limitations -- and those are gone for good.
Coming up with something like G-C-E7 is a complex process, sure ;) Hell,
make it Bbmaj9-Gm7-F/C-C-D/C. But do you really intend to say this is
yours? That you invented this, put it into the world, out of the blue?
Isolated from everything you've ever heard or experienced in your life?
Originality someone? What is that?
Share your stuff and you will get back more than you ever dreamed of. To
make money it is, in my experience, fairly promising to put your
family's estate to sensible use or, in the lack of an estate, work. The
clownesque, inspired, spiritual, grotesque, old-fashioned, great field
of making music will probably get you all *but* money.
I'm a bit ashamed to see that all this sounds quite patronizing. Excuse
me, Marc. This a patronizing day and it transfers.
Wolfgang