Eircom enacts three strikes rule

tiocimarla wrote: »

So Celebs can put it up their noses and tell us they have it hard. Ye right. Priorities are messed up.

A ridiculously small fraction of the proceeds goes towards the artist. The labels are a dinosaur who existed because a lot of very rich men had the distribution channels tied up pre-internet. Similarly, the means of production was controlled to a wide extent as the barriers to entry were so high that some level of co-operation was needed

Now music has gone digital and the distribution channels are wide open.

The artists still make shag-all money. True that the labels have taken a hit from their *SUPER NORMAL PROFITS* (economics term, look it up) but because of the internet, and the free distribution of music, the LIVE performance revenues of artists are skyrocketing - especially for electronic musicians or DJs.



The people who are putting it up their noses are the pricks who lob complete nonsense into the charts because its the most cost effective thing to do.

Musicians are making more now then they ever were

http://labs.timesonline.co.uk/blog/2009/11/12/do-music-artists-do-better-in-a-world-with-illegal-file-sharing/

This is almost WHOLLY attributed to filesharing by a number of leading academics and independent, neutral bodies.

The problem here is not starving musicians. It seems that people have a set budget constraint for music, and when the parts of it that can be captured in a file-format fall in price, it simply diverts that savings into other forms of music spending. The problem now is that the artists are getting a bigger chunk of the pie and that is not how the record industry is supposed to work!

I'm a gigging musician and DJ and I wholly disregard any and all of the actions of the so called ''IRMA'' as being of any benefit to me, or the many extremely talented musicians and performers in Ireland. We've been taken for a ride around the paddock as a generation of artists and we finally have the ability to stop the nonsense - unfortunately a lot of very very rich people are going to take umbrage with that.

well done Eircom

:rolleyes:


it's quite simple. If the european court overturn this step, I'll never post on boards again.
If they don't, or indicate that they won't, you'll never post again.

one more time. Do we have a deal?

please just answer yes or no.