Friday 15 February 2013
Response to sarajnewman
Response to sarajnewman
I really like the passage you chose that highlighted the major motivations for piracy. I feel as though sharing in an online community and sampling in the form of remixing songs go hand in hand. Today, it is common to find music that is sampled from others music, including within the well known band Led Zepplin. They used rifts and ideas from others songs to create some of the most well known music. Now with technology available to the whole public, we are able to download music freely and use that music to sample and create new songs. All music is a form of art and building off ideas in art to make something completely unique is a part of that. Because music is an art, it should be being shared within the public to listen and create off of. Copyright laws protect the rights of the artists claiming the music as their own. We as a the public who participate in piracy are not violating laws because we are not claiming we wrote or performed the songs. You also made a point that I addressed in response to another podcast which is the expense of music. I'm a poor student and would not have been able to afford the thousand plus songs on my ipod, but does that mean I shouldn't be allowed to listen to them? Or should I settle for listening on the radio with advertisements playing every other song? As if we aren't surrounded by enough.
I really like the passage you chose that highlighted the major motivations for piracy. I feel as though sharing in an online community and sampling in the form of remixing songs go hand in hand. Today, it is common to find music that is sampled from others music, including within the well known band Led Zepplin. They used rifts and ideas from others songs to create some of the most well known music. Now with technology available to the whole public, we are able to download music freely and use that music to sample and create new songs. All music is a form of art and building off ideas in art to make something completely unique is a part of that. Because music is an art, it should be being shared within the public to listen and create off of. Copyright laws protect the rights of the artists claiming the music as their own. We as a the public who participate in piracy are not violating laws because we are not claiming we wrote or performed the songs. You also made a point that I addressed in response to another podcast which is the expense of music. I'm a poor student and would not have been able to afford the thousand plus songs on my ipod, but does that mean I shouldn't be allowed to listen to them? Or should I settle for listening on the radio with advertisements playing every other song? As if we aren't surrounded by enough.
Response to sperrier686
Response to sperrier686's Podcast
You make a good point when you say that money is required in this world and because of this artists should be rewarded for their fruits of labour. While I agree with that as being true to our society, there is still radio coverage which they are paid for every time their song is played, as well as concerts and other ways to make money with their music. People seem to be so concerned for the artists and producers in the music industry and while they should be rewarded for their efforts, we cannot deny that the ones who become popular, whose music is most pirated, are still making millions through various different means. When music is pirated people are not stealing it and claiming it as their own, they are appreciating the song and the easiness it takes to download it online. In this day in age I really cannot see piracy online changing so I feel as though it is irrelevant to say they 'should' be making money of the songs that are pirated, because they aren't and will continue to lose money because people will continue to download music for free.
You make a good point when you say that money is required in this world and because of this artists should be rewarded for their fruits of labour. While I agree with that as being true to our society, there is still radio coverage which they are paid for every time their song is played, as well as concerts and other ways to make money with their music. People seem to be so concerned for the artists and producers in the music industry and while they should be rewarded for their efforts, we cannot deny that the ones who become popular, whose music is most pirated, are still making millions through various different means. When music is pirated people are not stealing it and claiming it as their own, they are appreciating the song and the easiness it takes to download it online. In this day in age I really cannot see piracy online changing so I feel as though it is irrelevant to say they 'should' be making money of the songs that are pirated, because they aren't and will continue to lose money because people will continue to download music for free.
Response to afcallaghan
Response to afcallaghan's Podcast
As much as I would like to agree with you and spend the money to purchase music I have to say that I don't. Maybe it is because I grew up downloading music off the internet on sites like Kaza since I was 11 years old that makes the difference. I found that when I did purchase full albums at stores like HMV I would not even care to listen to full albums only the songs I like. I understand that iTunes allows you to buy singular songs but as a student I honestly cannot afford to buy every single song. Why is it that we are able to listen to music for free on the radio but it becomes a crime once we download them off the internet? We are now so used to downloading that we even use the internet to watch movies now, causing retail chains like Blockbuster to be closed down. We are moving into an age where copyright laws are harder to keep track of because of the immense data on the Internet that are copied. Music started out as an art but as soon as we were able to commodify it, we did. I understand paying to go see a concert because their is the experience of seeing them live, but in this day and age I really don't think we should need to pay for music when it is so easy not to.
As much as I would like to agree with you and spend the money to purchase music I have to say that I don't. Maybe it is because I grew up downloading music off the internet on sites like Kaza since I was 11 years old that makes the difference. I found that when I did purchase full albums at stores like HMV I would not even care to listen to full albums only the songs I like. I understand that iTunes allows you to buy singular songs but as a student I honestly cannot afford to buy every single song. Why is it that we are able to listen to music for free on the radio but it becomes a crime once we download them off the internet? We are now so used to downloading that we even use the internet to watch movies now, causing retail chains like Blockbuster to be closed down. We are moving into an age where copyright laws are harder to keep track of because of the immense data on the Internet that are copied. Music started out as an art but as soon as we were able to commodify it, we did. I understand paying to go see a concert because their is the experience of seeing them live, but in this day and age I really don't think we should need to pay for music when it is so easy not to.
Wednesday 13 February 2013
Podcast
These actions are reflected by the means with which the Big Five record companies
(EMI, Universal, Sony, Time Warner and BMG [Bertelsmann]) have extended their
market dominance to the Internet. The Napster system of peer-to-peer sound file
trading posed a serious challenge to the existing recording industry, but the
decision in A&M Records et al. v. Napster firmly established the
on-line intellectual property rights of entertainment industry conglomerates
and reinforced the Big Five’s existing market oli-go-poly. The defeat of
Napster puts an end to one form of unregulated Internet market exchange. The
question remains what the new platform for music distribution will be, and what
flexibility and sharing of roles between creators, publishers and consumers will
be allowed.
https://soundcloud.com/gforsythe-1/alexa-reads-for-comm-2f00
https://soundcloud.com/gforsythe-1/alexa-reads-for-comm-2f00
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