King Crimson videos and MP3s no longer allowed !

WHAT??  You mean no one was paying money to listen to a song??  Someone must be punished for this!!

Would Fripp have asked that his songs not be played on the radio?

Apparently if the RIAA had their way, when you buy a CD you would have to pay them royalties for every single time you listen to any song.  You don't buy a recording of the music, you buy temporary rights to listen to the music.  But of course, if anyone else can hear it, that constitutes public performance, so you either have to pay extra or listen alone in a dark soundproof room.

This is absolutely out of hand.  IT IS 2008, PEOPLE!  If you haven't realized by now that allowing people to listen to something before they buy it might make them more inclined to actually purchase it instead of passing over it entirely, then I don't know what to tell you. 

As a counter measure i will no longer advocate KC's music, instead i will delete my reviews and replace them with 1 star ratings, that will teach him (and lower my trustability, so i guess I will not)

Edited by tuxon - March 29 2008 at 22:50

^ well, he's not maximising his earnings by the crappy selection of live recordings available on their myspace page ... 

^ it must be Mr. Fripp himself then ... he can join the club of internet-hating musicians, along with Metallica and Prince.

^ Well, with the advent of websites like last.fm, myspace.com and youtube.com the situation has changed a lot compared to two years ago. For every major band - and most recent small/obscure bands - you can access high quality samples, there's no need for the archives to provide them. Of course I know why they're still here - to attract visitors and boost ad revenue.

I simply think that artists have the right to decide which websites host their content ... making it available without asking them first always bears the risk of legal consequences. And often it's not the artists themselves but their management and/or record companies who decide to take legal action.




Edited by MikeEnRegalia - March 29 2008 at 10:11

micky wrote: how prog is that.....  let's just remove them from the damn site as well.

it is strange indeed; I also think KC will lose some publicity this way only. as if the few songs that could be heard on this site would really itch his ass

Heh.

My cousin wanted to get a better picture of the breadth of KC's sound, so I directed him to Progarchives' KC entry for the music.

No problem though, Mr Fripp isn't special, there's more than enough other great music out there to last my cousin a lifetime.

Drew wrote: other prog sites micky?

not other 'prog' sites that I am aware of...  personal sites....