Re: somewhere over the rainbow/what a wonderful day

Date: Sat, 10 May 2003 18:31:12 GMT
Newsgroups: alt.music.hawaiian,alt.music.karaoke,alt.music.midi,rec.music.makers.songwriting
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Ah MIDI, SchMIDI -- you know what I'm talking about. It's wrong to rob
musicians of what little royalties they make from recordings. This applies
especially to Hawaiian musicians, who ain't exactly getting rich through
their dedication to making beautiful music.
Under the current system, when you share music or video files, you're
stealing from the artist. Why would anyone bother to record anything if
they got no benefit from it (fame alone doesn't pay the rent). It's
especially egregious in the case of Iz, who left a family that needs the
income from his recordings.
Maybe the music industry will someday institutionalize sharing to create a
revenue stream for recording artists. Until they do, you're hurting the
very atists whose creativity you enjoy.
If you really hate the idea of supporting The Man, or whatever is the
current term of abuse for the industry, and are morally obliged to get music
only by free download, then you should be just as morally obliged to send a
check to the artist whose music you're taking. Easy enough to work out how
much they'd have gotten if you'd bought the CD or DVD. Call me cynical, but
I somehow don't think there's a stream of small checks heading towards Iz's
family, or any other Hawaiian artist for that matter.
I'll say it again. If you want to own the music, buy a CD; if video lifts
your skirt, buy the concert DVD.
I personally have every Hawaiian CD I own copied on to the hard drive of my
laptop so I can enjoy Hawaiian music while I'm travelling or whatever. Easy
enough to do with RealPlayer -- trust me, if I can do it anyone can.
Would any of the musicians out there who visit this newsgroup like to
comment?
"Sean Holland" <email-address-deleted> wrote in message
news:email-address-deleted...
> in article HQ9va.85290$email-address-deleted, Howard Bennett
> at email-address-deleted wrote on 5/10/03 9:32 AM:
>
> > Just a thought -- but you could go to this place called a "store" (maybe
> > even an on-line one like www.mele.com) and buy this thing called a "CD".
> > Has music on it. Part of the money you pay goes to the artist (or the
> > artist's family in this case) as payment for creating the music. What a
> > concept -- people spend time, energy, genius creating music and then get
> > compenstated for it.
> >
> > "Facing Future" Great CD. $15 bucks or so -- you can do it!
>
> Can you get MIDI files from a regular CD? Amazing. Tell me how to do it.
>
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