Thank you very much for sharing the rolling stone article on the Internet Archive. It is long, but in my view worth reading and important.
The major labels are calling the Archive's project of digitizing old 78s an “illegal record store.” Well, one has to assume that these lawyers have never been in a record store, because those are places where music is being sold. The archive does not sell anything.
But then it's ok to have people listening to music on spotify for free. Well, despite many actually paying for a premium acount, artists pretty much make peanuts from it, and use it mostly as a way of having their music online for people to hopefully notice them I work at a record store, I frequently see people checking something out on YT or spotify before deciding to buy or not.
The archive isn't hurting anyone, I think it is doing a fantastic service to humanity, and I, for one, would happily see the majors die once and for all, in order to make the music system healthier.
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Thank you very much for sharing the rolling stone article on the Internet Archive. It is long, but in my view worth reading and important.
The major labels are calling the Archive's project of digitizing old 78s an “illegal record store.” Well, one has to assume that these lawyers have never been in a record store, because those are places where music is being sold. The archive does not sell anything.
But then it's ok to have people listening to music on spotify for free. Well, despite many actually paying for a premium acount, artists pretty much make peanuts from it, and use it mostly as a way of having their music online for people to hopefully notice them
I work at a record store, I frequently see people checking something out on YT or spotify before deciding to buy or not.
The archive isn't hurting anyone, I think it is doing a fantastic service to humanity, and I, for one, would happily see the majors die once and for all, in order to make the music system healthier.
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