The most obvious reason why the p2p community hates the RIAA is bacause we know they’ll sue anything that moves. But it’s not the only reason …
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Billy is very a rare person and quite honestly, I doubt if you will be able to persuade more than a handful of other musicians to involve themselves in this kind of debate … They are out there but this will be like herding cats …
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Over in the UK, Crosbie Fitch is developing 1p2u (1P to you), which he describes like this:
It’s a little widget you put on your blog
It lets your readers become paying subscribers
Subscribers pay you a penny for each article you write
In other words, his interest in finding ways for people pay each other is more than [...]
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One of the things that’s a really beginning to strike me is: It’s becoming clearer and clearer the supposed gulf between musicians and fans is in the minds of the corporate music industry alone.
A very significant number of fans and artists have something major in common.
They both create music.
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“Everyone knows digital music distribution is a way to cut out the middlemen,” says Mike D, who’s both a musician and a fan.
“You don’t need to have a record company contract to disseminate music to fans, thanks to mp3s and the internet.
“But the other end of this isn’t really discussed much — the production end.”