Hb_Kai Posted July 30, 2008 Report Share Posted July 30, 2008 I found a couple articles which i think are quite newish, in some papers the other day. One from The Times and one from The Independent.The IndependentTo sum this up in one post, the government wants to add £30 tax a year to illegal downloaders enabling the downloaders to download all the illegal music they want. The downloaders will pay an extra £30 a year and they can legally download all the music they want.The Independent - Taxation on music downloadsThe TimesBasically, the BPI monitor the IP traffic on download websites, send the information to the ISP, the ISP send a letter of warning and also slow your internet down, and if this happens Three times, your internet will be permanently stopped.The Times - BPI monitoring download websites Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
andsome Posted July 30, 2008 Report Share Posted July 30, 2008 What a daft idea. This apology for a government see taxation as the answer to everything. The answer is in the hands of the music industry and I.S.P's. The ball is in their court to enforce realistic prices, or cut off access. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
catgate Posted July 30, 2008 Report Share Posted July 30, 2008 The sensible way to deal with this is for the record buying public to stop buying records for a few months. That should show the record producers the combined strength of the purchasers. It should not be hard to do, looking at what is on the "popular music" menu....mainly synthetic "groups" pretending to "play" instruments or, more often than not, pretending that the discordant cacophony of noise emanating from those orifices just below their noses is "singing".Just why it continues to call itself a music industry is totally beyond me. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CurlyWhirly Posted July 31, 2008 Report Share Posted July 31, 2008 What a daft idea. This apology for a government see taxation as the answer to everything.Yes The answer is in the hands of the music industry and I.S.P's. The ball is in their court to enforce realistic prices, or cut off access.Common sense but the government fail to see it :( Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
andsome Posted July 31, 2008 Report Share Posted July 31, 2008 The sensible way to deal with this is for the record buying public to stop buying records for a few months. That should show the record producers the combined strength of the purchasers. It should not be hard to do, looking at what is on the "popular music" menu....mainly synthetic "groups" pretending to "play" instruments or, more often than not, pretending that the discordant cacophony of noise emanating from those orifices just below their noses is "singing".Just why it continues to call itself a music industry is totally beyond me.I can see your sentiments about so called music, and agree with them, but this is NOT about buying records as such. This is about ILLEGAL downloading, and the public stopping buying records will do nothing to stop this. :D Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
catgate Posted July 31, 2008 Report Share Posted July 31, 2008 The sensible way to deal with this is for the record buying public to stop buying records for a few months. That should show the record producers the combined strength of the purchasers. It should not be hard to do, looking at what is on the "popular music" menu....mainly synthetic "groups" pretending to "play" instruments or, more often than not, pretending that the discordant cacophony of noise emanating from those orifices just below their noses is "singing".Just why it continues to call itself a music industry is totally beyond me.I can see your sentiments about so called music, and agree with them, but this is NOT about buying records as such. This is about ILLEGAL downloading, and the public stopping buying records will do nothing to stop this. :DPerhaps I should have explained further that I think the price of any "music" CD is exorbitant in the extreme, particularly in view of the "content" of most of them. The disc itself is almost worthless. They can be bought for coppers each at any supermarket. The content is provided by artificially created "super stars" whose real worth is even less than the disc. The marketing and trite blurb material are the things that make the simple punters wild with desire to have the outpourings of sadly overpaid and basically talentless nonentities.If the simple punters stopped buying this crap the "music" industry might realise that bringing down the price might be the answer to their problem. The real value of the content is what matters.No one quibbled about about paying 2/- for a record of PeeWee hunt playing Twelfth Street Rag. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
andsome Posted August 1, 2008 Report Share Posted August 1, 2008 The sensible way to deal with this is for the record buying public to stop buying records for a few months. That should show the record producers the combined strength of the purchasers. It should not be hard to do, looking at what is on the "popular music" menu....mainly synthetic "groups" pretending to "play" instruments or, more often than not, pretending that the discordant cacophony of noise emanating from those orifices just below their noses is "singing".Just why it continues to call itself a music industry is totally beyond me.I can see your sentiments about so called music, and agree with them, but this is NOT about buying records as such. This is about ILLEGAL downloading, and the public stopping buying records will do nothing to stop this. :D Perhaps I should have explained further that I think the price of any "music" CD is exorbitant in the extreme, particularly in view of the "content" of most of them. The disc itself is almost worthless. They can be bought for coppers each at any supermarket. The content is provided by artificially created "super stars" whose real worth is even less than the disc. The marketing and trite blurb material are the things that make the simple punters wild with desire to have the outpourings of sadly overpaid and basically talentless nonentities.If the simple punters stopped buying this crap the "music" industry might realise that bringing down the price might be the answer to their problem. The real value of the content is what matters.No one quibbled about about paying 2/- for a record of PeeWee hunt playing Twelfth Street Rag.Unfortunately we have suffered a wee thing called inflation since then. I too had no qualms about paying a few bob for a record many years ago when I only got paid two or three pounds a week, although the quality was CRAP compared to todays CD. I think that the price the kids pay for single track Cd's is laughable, and agree on that point. However, the price that I expect to pay for the services of a huge orchestra on CD is well worth it. These Cd's are not churned out in such large quantities because there are unfortunately not so many people who are capable of listening to anything other than a throbbing thump thump noise and wailing or chanting soloists. Even for a CD of a small jazz group or solo instrumentalist the price is worth it, as the production costs are the same. My only quibble is that in rip off Britain a couple of pounds extra is charged than in many other countries. :D Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hb_Kai Posted August 4, 2008 Author Report Share Posted August 4, 2008 The record companies use the real expensive discs don't they? I can't remember what they're called, Dual something or other, and that's why discs have to cost so much apparently... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wawa Posted August 5, 2008 Report Share Posted August 5, 2008 Just gone through the articles. They are very nice..thanks mate for sharing this with us! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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