Fame? Everyone in this scene looking for fame has come to the wrong place... there's not much fame to gain. My personal motivation to release remixes is to have some exposure of my work to people who would appreciate it. You are right when you say that remixers want reflection, of course they do, but I don't think this has to do anything with fame. (Like "Hey grandson, 50 years ago I was famous among a community of like 200 people."?
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Everything we do here is small-scale. I do my part out of idealism, and my belief that our little creative communtiy is something really special, and I know a lot of other people here who do it for the same reason. There are occasional outbursts of calls for fame, but as I said, it's the wrong place since there's no fame to find.
As for the initial topic of the thread: I also think that copyright laws are being driven to extremes right now. I also think that there should be more "fair use" kind of things. I'm noot going to elaborate on this here.
Why did we change our point of view? Isn't it obvious - we were kids then! I bought the occasional original, but buying one game was pretty much everything I could afford in half a year. Which kid wouldn't take the stuff for free if it was so readily available? When we got our c64 with copies of Summer Games, Pitstop II, Spy vs Spy etc., I was 11 years old. We had no awareness of it being illegal at all. We couldn't tell the meaning of "cracked by" from the meaning of "written by". This awareness grew as we grew up, and by the time we started earning money my brother and me erased most of our illegal game collection (some of it I still regret, among it were a couple of games I made with an illegal copy of Gary Kitchen's gamemaker).
Why do we judge Timbaland from such a high standard of morale? Obvious too - he is part of the very industry that issues the
"piracy is a crime" campaigns.
(Anecdote: We bought a children's story DVD recently, one that's peaceful and harmless, so if our little one wants to watch TV he doesn't have to watch the crap that goes as children's programe nowadays. Now everytime you put on the DVD you have to watch a one minute, unskippable clip that shows a mom and two kids singig happy birthday to their father outside a prison. "Mom when will daddy be released?" "We'll have to sing 4 more times." - "Piracy is theft and will be punished with up to 5 years of prison." - Then the kids stuff starts. Gets me fuming every time, and I was tempted to ripp the DVD and remove that bullshit and sell the original.) You get piled with such crap, every two months there are reports of copyright law getting stricter, you watch such intros in cinemas, and are pestered with copy protections when buying music. DRM and high prices prevent download portals from being attractive. Automatic bots surveil the P2P machinery, sending automatic official reprimands to thousands. Imprisoning a german mother for lending her bank account to her chinese friend who sells DVDs from China over eBay, only under the
suspicion of piracy.
And now an popular representative of
that very industry, backed by that very industry, says it's totally ok to ripp stuff the opposite way, making us buy their music which they have stolen from someone who meant it to be freely available.
Spending gazillions on campaigns that are meant to drive fear into us so we don't steal
their intellectual property on the one hand, them smilingly defying their own rules, applying the ignorance of the powerful over the masses on the other hand. Gets my blood boiling for sure.[/b]
... I believe that musicians make music to get complimented on their work... it's a musicians major reason for making music (actually that is so with any artform), and in fact I believe it comes before the desire to make money... I simply do not believe that anyone make music only to listen to it for themselves... that makes releasing their work for others totaly unreasonable if that was the case... one way or the other, a musician wants to be heard.
