[citation][nom]TheKurrgan[/nom]Hah! Typical RIAA vomit.. Stopping piracy is impossible, they need to give it up. Lets take a look at the time line.1994: the MP3 format is invented.1997: "Broad band" internet is available in major cities throughout US / EU. Suburbs and rural areas mainly dialup.1999 - Napster hits. First major music sharing service. Typical bandwidth limitations still prohibit movies being pirated to the masses at this time. Prior to this, most of it was being done via FTP sites posted in forums, and over IRC, etc. Basically NOT out there and easy to the general public prior to this. 2000: Metallica got a stick up their a**, and proceeded to start this WHOLE thing over music piracy.2001: Napster shut down.Lets summarize the next 9 years:RIAA / MPAA continue to waste time and money stopping the inevitable. Kazaa, limewire, morpheus, and about 200 others that made it very easy to pirate music are all slowly and costly smacked down. So lets take stock: after a decade of trying every possible venue including scare tactics by suing soccer moms and college students for money they probably wont see in the next 30 years of their lives, they are still basically at square one. Enter 2011: The RIAA / MPAA decide that what they are doing simply isnt viable, and must pursue another avenue of attack.. The laws make it possible albeit difficult and expensive to stop various ways of pirating copyrighted material. However, the process is loosing the RIAA / MPAA money. Because the record industry is ran by 55+ deuche bags at the top, they are VERY disinclined to admit that something is simply beyond their control. So they decide to find a way to change the law so it becomes easier and cheaper to do what they want to do, and also protect every other deuche bag at the same time.They buy a senator, and get him to make this dumb bill called SOPA. yada yada yada we all know about that.Forgetting that ACTA was circumvented in about 30 seconds, and that the same can happen to SOPA, TPB demonstrated yet again, that no matter what they do, they CANNOT STOP IT. Enter 2012: tpb.se is registered. Oops, guess the RIAA /MPAA is boned. Again! Heres to a NEW DECADE OF HUNTING THE WHITE WHALE!That said, the record companies are past the point of full of sh*t. Music today is fairly easy to record and deal with. With modern recording equipment one can produce reasonable sounding music.And contrary to popular believe, sound studios are NOT that expensive--Any more that is--It USED to be, it was expensive to build.it USED to take a lot to master and mix the music.It USED to take a lot to distribute the music.However, TODAY, all of that is nullified.Beyond the fact they want to continue screwing every one over who BUYS music by charing non stop anal rape for a new release CD, they also screw over equally if not more so the artist themselves!Heres how I see it, in the year 2012 and beyond:Fact: Music started being a cash cow around 1952.In 2012, music simply isnt worth much any more. Between the manufacturing of sub standard artists BY the record companies, the ability to get it so easily with OUT being anally raped, and everything else that factors in to this, any kid out of economics 101 can see that the industry is dying; pure and simple. they had no back up plan, and they are suffering for it now.A word on the MPAA: STOP CHARGING SO DAMN MUCH FOR TICKETS TO IN-THEATER MOVIES AND MAYBE YOU'D NOT HAVE SUCH A BIG PROBLEM MORONS!Who the HELL wants to pay 24 bucks to see a movie (assuming 2 people, and the latest "3D" movies)Of course it doesnt stop there, the 24 is just the tickets, and because the theaters are of course wanting to turn a profit, the concession is inflated as it always has been. So by the time you and your sweet heart sit down for that new dolphin tale movie, you are out close to 40 bucks.OR, you can pay 6 dollars for a six pack of cokes, pop corn, 2 kit-kat bars and a condom; Download the movie off the net, play it on your 42 inch television and 5.1 surround sound, and still have a 32 bucks left for some flowers, gas, RENT, what not.So the MPAA is simply its own worst enemy. Charing to much fellas.. Quit bleeding people dry..That said, I obviously think those two are full of it. However, TPB is not innocent here.Lets not quibble or mince words: TPB exists for one purpose: The pirating of stuff. Pure and simple. And since they make stuff available for free that is otherwise supposed to be paid for, its wrong. Pure and simple. They are standing up and slaping the face of the "establishment". Another analogy could be pissing on a bee hive. At some point, some ones getting stung. Whether its the RIAA/MPAA, TPB or the public masses, some ones going to eat shit over this whole thing at some point. Any guesses who it will be?[/citation]
a recording studio. as in a pro setup, that is a sound proof room, you play music its recorded, costs a crap ton to make
it can cost up to 3000$+ to rent an hour... (lowest is 40$ average is around 200$) and for someone who doesnt make a ton of money, 1 hour in a recording studio can cost more than 1 weeks pay
yea, digital recording, even at home, is good enough for most instruments, but realize that you are looking at spending upwords 500-1000$ on equipment to record in quality, and vocals still need a sound room, drums can either be done in quiet area, or done digitally with a roland e drum kit, but those are expensive.
distribution doesn't cost allot anymore, but lets be honest here, distribution doesn't mean dick if people don't know you.
look at most bands today... WHY DO PEOPLE KNOW THEM... i mean they arent really that good, its because record companies know how to promote their people.[citation][nom]kinggraves[/nom]"It is motivated by its brazen philosophy of thumbing its nose at the basic rights of America’s creators."America, the only place in the entirety of the world where content is created.You know, the whole "we need record companies at least to do a pro mixing of our records" isn't really even true. "Major" record companies with pro facilities don't give chances to small acts until they've milked all they can out of their current acts. They're just as motivated by money and only see selling potential, not talent. You don't need professional recording to make music. Beethoven and Mozart didn't have advanced recording facilities. Plenty of local guys make pretty good music right down the street every night when you know where to go, and they deserve the money a lot more than many of the acts with record deals to. The same can be said for any industry. You don't need a publisher to write a book, film a movie, or make a game, you need a publisher to sell them. The only real need for these industries is to sell a product, because people buy what they're told to. The Internet is a threat to this model, because sampling goods means that people don't need to be told what to buy, they find out themselves. This completely removes the need for an industry. They failed to evolve when they had the chance and now they're a doomed species struggling to survive.[/citation]
two people who wrote symphonies, who had the best people playing live, an equivalent would be a band you like and going to their concert.
you dont need them for a book,
you dont need them for a movie,
you dont need them for music,
you dont need them to make a game...
but they pay money while you are doing it if they know you can make something great, how many independent movies do you even know about, and how many indi bands have you ever heard of that were great... same for the indi game (steam changed that a bit though)
these people know how to market you... if you could sell 1000 books on your own, they will sell 10000.
you want to be known, they are the only way to go, and are a nessassary evil till something comes along and changes that.