Digital Rights - Personally, I totally get Metallica wanting to make sure they are paid for their work. I'm not a musician but I think that most people would like to receive credit for their creations. So yeah, they should get paid. I think that doing so might have killed their careers/fan-base but I feel sure they have a bit of money squirreled away somewhere. What the music industry needs to keep focusing on is ways to allow people to get access to music in an affordable way. I feel, as many people do, that CDs are way overpriced. At OCLS, we sell blank discs for $1.00. Yet if I go to Best Buy, many CDs are in the neighborhood of $14.00 and up. Obviously, the companies are running businesses and their 1st and only priority is making money (as it is with all companies, always; it's not just a friendly endeavour to enrich the world's cultures as their marketing departments would have you think. But, these days, I can't buy a CD from an up-and-coming band and even enjoy 2 or 3 songs off it. You get one 2min song you enjoy for $14. That's one reason people steal music. Should Metallica get paid what they're worth? Absolutely! It's just too bad I didn't like St. Anger. Fortunately, their DVD documentary (Some Kind of Monster) about the making of the album was pretty interesting. I'll buy CDs again (or whatever the appropriate format is) when I actually have a decent chance of liking more than two of the 14-20 songs on the disc. Maybe the concept of an "album" is dead; iPod killed it... or maybe we did. Maybe musicians just need to release a song as soon as they finish making it.
One last thing (as quoted from the 2.0 week 9 assignment):
"Disclaimer: this is an awareness session only. None of us are lawyers, nor do we play one on TV. If you have a question, take it to your supervisor and get some help before you act, waiting until after the fact is waiting too long."
Ben Matlock actually is a lawyer. Zombie Matlock is too. They do play lawyers on TV when they're not being real lawyers. They are Matlock; they do what they want, when they want.
One last thing (as quoted from the 2.0 week 9 assignment):"Disclaimer: this is an awareness session only. None of us are lawyers, nor do we play one on TV. If you have a question, take it to your supervisor and get some help before you act, waiting until after the fact is waiting too long."
Ben Matlock actually is a lawyer. Zombie Matlock is too. They do play lawyers on TV when they're not being real lawyers. They are Matlock; they do what they want, when they want.
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