Comments on: Universal Sues Myspace

By: Another Musician

Another Musician — Tue, 21 Nov 2006 00:49:11 +0000

if this kind of litigation goes on, what is next? Cover bands paying royalties for playing the music or the listener paying royalties for listening?

Hell why dont we charge people $X for an artists CD then charge them $Y for each time they listen or play the CD on their stereos and $Z per person actually hearing the played music.

This is getting out of control.

By: Scott

Scott — Mon, 20 Nov 2006 16:43:38 +0000

Money, people…money. That’s all it’s fueled by. They’re not looking at it as “free advertisement.” They’re looking at it as “lost royalties for plays @ 2000+ per day.”

By: Musician

Musician — Mon, 20 Nov 2006 10:04:30 +0000

Why is it that record companies want royalty payments for FREE ADVERTISING of their products?? IE the music and musicians?? Imagine that ! Free marketing and free advertising. No wonder the industry labels are loosing out, they are SO short sighted and this is the PERFECT example of that short sightedness.

By: Greg

Greg — Sun, 19 Nov 2006 12:08:09 +0000

I wish the record companies would quit complaining and embrace the technology. They fought music downloads for awhile and finally realized that is what the public wanted. They need to be more accepting of the technology that’s out there and be glad someone cares enough to post one of their music videos or songs. It’s just frustrating to see them go against the flow. They are only hurting themselves in the long run.

By: Andy

Andy — Sat, 18 Nov 2006 22:26:42 +0000

ugh.
universal just wont give up.
personally, i don’t see what the big deal with having your music video on the biggest site on the net is.
Thats extra exposure really.
For a visual person like me, videos will actually sell a song for me and my biggest source for finding these videos are myspace and youtube, both which are having complaints left and right.
Eliminate those and i don’t see videos and that lowers sales by at least 1.