The way that I
promote the
music that I make is
through mp3s. Its an
incredible feeling to
receive feedback from people in
Zaire and
Taiwan on the same day because they got my music for
free and they liked it or wanted to say
hi. Without the
format, I wouldn't be able to do it.
Plain and simple.
The amount of music that is being
produced
independently is staggering now that the
internet and
bandwidth are easily obtainable.
Musicians at home are no longer left with just
irate neighbours as their
prime audience. Look at the
amount of
legal mp3s that
exist on the
internet. There is a huge potential and unfortunately, a market for
music distribution
online.
Indirectly, its the RIAA's
market and they're afraid of losing the
control they had even
six months ago.
With less control over the
artists, they're more
unaware of the amount of
talent that exists. And there's lots. Look at
mp3.com's
roster of
creativity, for instance.
I'm
sick of the RIAA's attempts to
hack and slash at the
music community and I say fuck 'em, too. They're so concerned about the
bottom line that they're forgetting that markets and
trends change. If they were
smart, they'd work with the
shift instead of trying to
prevent it from
happening. They're
kicking and screaming because they're
scared.
Let them. Those who throw
tantrums don't get their way
forever and well... We all have our
computers complete with
burners and
fraunhofer codec already so I don't know why people
panic so much when the RIAA makes another rash move somewhere. We will always have the tools to distribute.
What's next...
suing whomever created
FTP?
MPEG?
I hope they'll
go away soon.