Post by groundhog on Sept 25, 2006 20:37:13 GMT -5
Bill:
That's about the most realistic solution to the peer-to-peer issue I've heard yet. I've purchased all the Chilliwack albums on vinyl in the past, but some of them are in rough shape and to be honest, there are some better sounding ones available on peer-to-peer from time to time. I've bought all the commercially available CDs, but the back catalogue is unfortunately unavailable. I'd gladly pay for the CDs if they were re-issued, or if the songs were available for "legal" download I'd be first in line.
I for one wouldn't mind paying my ISP a small fee every month to allow me to download p2p songs, provided the fee didn't get swallowed up in administration. The Canadian government's levy on blank CDs and tapes is pathetic, because the distribution is based on total album sales. As a result, the ones benefiting most are the Nickelbacks and Celine Dions of the world, regardless of whether the purchased CDs or tapes are used for duplicating songs by those artists. I buy my music CDs. I don't download and burn them. It's not cheap, and I'm closing in on 1,000 discs. However, I have taken many of my old vinyl albums, the ones not commercially available on CD, and transferred them to CD-R. That way, my blank CD purchases have gone to artists like Chilliwack, not to Celine Dion. Unfortunately, Celine has benefited most from the tax I pay on the blank discs, not Bill Henderson.
However, if there could be a way of tracking p2p downloads, it would be great for the artists and truly representative of actual sales/usage.
Now here's a curve ball: Bill, what are your thoughts on a bar band playing your songs? There's never been an issue of royalties there, has there? Or should there be?
Peace
Groundhog
That's about the most realistic solution to the peer-to-peer issue I've heard yet. I've purchased all the Chilliwack albums on vinyl in the past, but some of them are in rough shape and to be honest, there are some better sounding ones available on peer-to-peer from time to time. I've bought all the commercially available CDs, but the back catalogue is unfortunately unavailable. I'd gladly pay for the CDs if they were re-issued, or if the songs were available for "legal" download I'd be first in line.
I for one wouldn't mind paying my ISP a small fee every month to allow me to download p2p songs, provided the fee didn't get swallowed up in administration. The Canadian government's levy on blank CDs and tapes is pathetic, because the distribution is based on total album sales. As a result, the ones benefiting most are the Nickelbacks and Celine Dions of the world, regardless of whether the purchased CDs or tapes are used for duplicating songs by those artists. I buy my music CDs. I don't download and burn them. It's not cheap, and I'm closing in on 1,000 discs. However, I have taken many of my old vinyl albums, the ones not commercially available on CD, and transferred them to CD-R. That way, my blank CD purchases have gone to artists like Chilliwack, not to Celine Dion. Unfortunately, Celine has benefited most from the tax I pay on the blank discs, not Bill Henderson.
However, if there could be a way of tracking p2p downloads, it would be great for the artists and truly representative of actual sales/usage.
Now here's a curve ball: Bill, what are your thoughts on a bar band playing your songs? There's never been an issue of royalties there, has there? Or should there be?
Peace
Groundhog