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Originally Posted by sarramkrop
Oh, I get you. They're pretty much bands that you'd think would be precious about the whole intellectual property thing, simply by the very nature of how they deal with the music business. There was an interesting article on the whole attitude that the music industry has towards mp3 blogs on one of those free newspapers that litter the streets of London every day (surprising, considering the amount of dull celebrity pap that these rags contain). It goes on to try and explain the ambivalent attitude that said record companies have towars the bloggers, the unspoken act of sending these people music from new bands in the hope that an internet buzz takes place, even though the law forbids the uploading of copyrighted material on this or other promotional tools. It's all a bit fucked up, but then the industry is still getiing its head around the whole myspace/ digital distribution of music thing, so it's safe to say that they haven't got too much of a clue about what's going on or what will take place.
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The whole copyright issue is a mess, It was only on April 6th this year that powers under the Copyright Designs and Patents Act 2002 was given to Trading Standards!
Before that it was exclusively a Police matter
Attitudes vary from record company to record company and band to band
Arctic monkeys who originally based themselves originally on free downloads of their material are now vehemently anti counterfeit in attitude and Muse are just having a huge purge on material on the internet
Its a hypocritical the way the industry on the one hand actively courts the internet communities to get bands off the launch pad or use them as free market research and the next minute is vilifying them for doing what they have encouraged them to do in the first place