So I was searching the web and came across this video which I think relates to our class. The music companies are suing this guy named Joel Tenenbaum. He apparently downloaded and distributed 30 tracks over the internet, and they want him to pay $675,000 in fines. I beleive that it is wrong to illegaly download music, because you are ripping off the artists who make this awesome music that you love so much that you want to download it. If you really do love it download it legally on itunes for $.99! But there is a problem with this lawsuit. First of all $675,00 is a hell of a lot of money for anyone to pay much less a 25 year old college student like Joel. But even if the fines were lowered, there is still a second issue with the lawsuit. The music companies are taking all of these fines because the think you should buy the music to support the artists, but the money they collect in fines is never seen by the artists. The companies kepp the money for themselves, now tell me THAT"S the right thing to do! I don't think so!
Please watch the video it is really interesting!
Tyler J. Immethun
this is ridiculous...i agree with the fact that they should be fined but it should be a resonable amount of money (not $675,000). Also if you get fined the money should go to the artist and not to the company, or atleast a significant amount of the money should go to the artist
ReplyDeleteYeah, and of course another problem is that the money that comes from record sales almost all goes to the company. Artists make around ten cents to fifty cents per album (at most), and that's AFTER they pay the record company for advances, studio costs, recording costs, instruments, travel expenses, PR and advertising, etc etc etc. So in other words, artists make almost nothing from album sales unless they go platinum.
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