Labels Gone Wild

[mgraham333]

Ridiculous...

[Claude]

how bad will it get?

On US DVDs there is a 10 second FBI warning message before the program starts.

They could do a FBI jingle for music CDs

Edited July 16, 2004 by Claude

[wesbed]

Hey. C'mon! The little FBI label will make you not copy the CD. Errr... right?

[wolff]

I'm a firm believer in sharing music, to a degree.

How many of you have heard some music, for the first time, via a copy from a friend and later went out and got your own copy?

How many of you have given a friend a comp and they later went out and bought music of the artist they liked?

I could go on, but you get the idea.

Edited July 16, 2004 by wolff

[Claude]

How many of you have given a friend a comp and they later went out and bought music of the artist they liked?

Yes, I think that being able to listen to CDs before buying them is very important, especially with music that cannot be evaluated with 30 second clips or by just listening to one track at a CD store.

Naxos has been offering the possibility to listen to complete CDs on their website. The quality of the sound is good enough to be able to evaluate the music, but not good enough to use this feature as a CD replacement (AM radio quality). The success of this service has been so big that Naxos had to intruduce a low subscription fee ($15/year).

It would be great if there was a sort of subscription service for all labels, that instead or in addition to selling "high quality" downloads at $1/track, gives the possibility to just listen to the entire music in low quality. It would make people want to discover more unknown music instead of sticking to what they already know or what they hear on the radio or see on MTV. It would be good for jazz especially.

Edited July 16, 2004 by Claude

[Ed S]

Hey. C'mon! The little FBI label will make you not copy the CD. Errr... right?

Does the Patriot Act figure in here somehow? Better go back and read the finer print.

[WD45]

I did not realize that John Williams movie scores were big among the Kazaa set.

[JSngry]

This label bothers me as much as the "Do Not Remove Under Penalty Of Law" tags on mattresses. Just another meaningless matter that I have to ignore, when I could be spending my time ignoring meaningful matters.

It's a wonder our society doesn't have a collective breakdown!

[Kevin Bresnahan]

The funniest thing is that the pirates over in the far east will copy this disc, right down to this warning label! They could care less what it says, they'll just dup it anyway. Why would a record label think this kind of stuff would stop crooks? Crooks break the law. A label isn't gonna stop 'em.

Later,

Kevin

[Hardbopjazz]

...and with any copy protrction, someone will eventually crack it.

[Claude]

I guess that the objective of warning about "unauthorized copying" is to make the buyers think that copying is forbidden altogether, although most copyright laws allow for limited copying for private purposes (which means it is authorized by the law).

Edited July 16, 2004 by Claude

[Hardbopjazz]

I make copies of my Mosaic collection and the stuff that isn't available at the corner store. I usually play the copies and leave the original in the box.

Do others here make copies of their collection.?