Posted by: Anonymous Coward
on July 16, 2002 06:22 AM
Metallica suing Napster has nothing to do with denying other startup bands their chances to be heard. There are alternative and legal websites that startup bands can post their songs, like the modern day legit mp3.com website.
With respect to tori and alanis, I am just saying that when they were paid millions of dollars of stock options (that were thought to be able to be flipped for hundreds of millions of dollars), they were all for consumer rights. But when those stock options went under water, then they are suddenly silent on the consumer rights matter.
With respect to indie labels, by virtue of indie bands (like Metallica decades before) making demos and circulating it --- they become in effect indie labels themselves. So in a sense that a trade body representing indie label --- it mostly likely represent indie musicians who put out their cassettes or cd's themselves (ie. they are their own labels.)
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Re:stock options
Posted by: Anonymous Coward on July 16, 2002 06:22 AMWith respect to tori and alanis, I am just saying that when they were paid millions of dollars of stock options (that were thought to be able to be flipped for hundreds of millions of dollars), they were all for consumer rights. But when those stock options went under water, then they are suddenly silent on the consumer rights matter.
With respect to indie labels, by virtue of indie bands (like Metallica decades before) making demos and circulating it --- they become in effect indie labels themselves. So in a sense that a trade body representing indie label --- it mostly likely represent indie musicians who put out their cassettes or cd's themselves (ie. they are their own labels.)
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