My thoughts on P2P
My practical side says choose the cheapest path of least resistance. Recently, I decided what that would be for me. That is, any RIAA distributed CDs I will only buy used, any non-RIAA I will buy new. Now, if I could get an extra $1 into the artists hands in the process, I’d have the record company payouts to artists beat.
The path of p2p music and movie sharing still has too much legal resistance for my taste. Sure, only a handful of the total involved are getting sued, but I’m wary.
It doesn’t help that I get DMCA notices at work for our customers. That rattles you a bit.
28. June 2004 at 09:20
I too refuse to buy any new RIAA cds until they stop this nonsense of suing their customers and building copyright restrictions into the cds. There is so much good music out there there isn’t part of the RIAA/Clear Channel/MTV monopoly anyway. P2P is the way to find it.
(This is my first visit to your site, my RSS feed pointed me to this post. Ain’t technology grand?)
28. June 2004 at 09:45
But how do you know which recordings are RIAA and which are not?
28. June 2004 at 10:37
Danny, good question. Check out riaaradar.com. They check an album’s recording label against their known roster of RIAA members. Probably not 100% accurate, but they have a big list. They also have a bookmarklet that links to a cgi to check the referring page for ASINs. I’ve tested it against, among other places, Amazon. It works.
James, thanks for the visit, and yes, technology is grand!