{"id":896,"date":"2003-09-25T21:49:00","date_gmt":"2003-09-26T02:49:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/robandjen.com\/jen\/2003\/09\/25\/copyrights-and-thieves-part-2\/"},"modified":"2003-09-25T21:49:00","modified_gmt":"2003-09-26T02:49:00","slug":"copyrights-and-thieves-part-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/robandjen.com\/jen\/2003\/09\/25\/copyrights-and-thieves-part-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Copyrights and thieves… (part 2)"},"content":{"rendered":"

Here's part 2 of Orson Scott Card's article on mp3's, music sharing and the RIAA:<\/p>\n

The real gripe for the record companies is not these fictional “lost sales.” What's keeping them up at night is the realization that musicians don't need record companies any more.<\/p>\n

Musicians can go into a studio, record their own music exactly as they want it, and not as some executive says they have to record it because “that's what the kids want.”<\/p>\n

Then they can sell CDs at their live performances and set up online, with a bunch of MP3s that people can share around. They also can sell CDs, and without a lot of expensive record company overhead.<\/a> <\/i><\/p>\n

Edit: Here's part 1<\/a> of the article!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Here's part 2 of Orson Scott Card's article on mp3's, music sharing and the RIAA: The real gripe for the record companies is not these fictional “lost sales.” What's keeping them up at night is the realization that musicians don't need record companies any more. Musicians can go into a studio, record their own music exactly as they want it, and not as some executive says they have to record it because “that's what the kids want.” Then they can sell CDs at their live performances and set up online, with a bunch of MP3s that people can share around. They also can sell CDs, and without a lot of expensive record company overhead. Edit: Here's part 1 of the article!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-896","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/robandjen.com\/jen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/896","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/robandjen.com\/jen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/robandjen.com\/jen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robandjen.com\/jen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robandjen.com\/jen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=896"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/robandjen.com\/jen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/896\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/robandjen.com\/jen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=896"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robandjen.com\/jen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=896"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robandjen.com\/jen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=896"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}