This is from The Pirate Bay who is having an interesting time being prosecuted in court this past week. Follow posts on the ongoing trial here.
And don’t forget that your Congress wants to enact laws that may make doing normal things like email on the Interwebitubes illegal, require ISPs, etc to keep records of everything you do on the web and cause ordinary people to lose access to the web for downloading a song. At least some are trying to repeal the ban in on-line gambling. Just like drug laws, prohibition doesn’t work.
Uncle Dave,
The Arena Rock era was about theater… And modern arena rock bands are about that theater as well. The small time ma and pa music operations will never be able to put on a show like Kiss or the Greatful Dead.
That era is effectively over, and like it or not, the internet killed it. I for on, lament its passing. Look at all the kids on this thread who don’t understand what it was that they missed.
# 40 GregA said, “That era is effectively over, and like it or not, the internet killed it.”
Kiss stopped playing arena’s because of the internet? I think you have your time line confused.
You can’t kill music, nor the music industry. The internet just changes things a little. And, there still is a demand for live shows, even in little towns. I spent many a day not even five years ago in a place that saw a good music wave. We had less than 30,000 people, but there was still a demand for live shows.
And, try as they may, these companies will scream copywrite; they’ll stomp and throw a tantrum, but in the end, you can’t kill the cockroaches. They should be encouraging the download and use of these songs in videos. It’s the same as if they gave it to a dj at a radio station to play and play and play…
Why don’t they see it for what it is?