Comments on: JFB blog policy

By: Get Paid To Drive Car

Get Paid To Drive Car — Mon, 19 Jul 2010 21:38:19 +0000

Can i make a recommendation? I believe you have got something very good in this article. But suppose you included a number of links to a page that backs up what you are stating? Or possibly you might give us a little something to look at, a specific thing that would connect what youre saying to some thing tangible? Just a suggestion.

By: Rosie Ohler

Rosie Ohler — Tue, 13 Jul 2010 14:14:35 +0000

Ty Debartolo

By: Mau Leyzaola

Mau Leyzaola — Sun, 11 Jul 2010 03:35:17 +0000

By the way, I tried to donate through PayPal just a few bucks but there is no way to do it from my PayPal balance. I don’t have a credit card available at this moment.
If you could modify your setup and accept PayPal balance for payment, please let me know.
Thanks.

By: Mau Leyzaola

Mau Leyzaola — Sun, 11 Jul 2010 03:32:30 +0000

Sorry for my english, it’s not my natural language.
This is another stupid case of copyright infrigment. I fully agree with Seth; in my opinion the so-called digital era, has taken by “surprise” these record companies which cannot adapt to sell music through the web. iTunes and many other services, are more clever and doing business (although I really don’t like iTunes quality, I mean 192 kbps is terrible!).
It is all about to squeeze the consumer, as they have been doing for long long time ago. The sad thing is that current american law cannot adjust either to this rapid growing digital sharing.
There is no way they can stop that and still people like Joe will have to pay the price times thousands.
Don’t give up Joe.

By: Sang Niedzielski

Sang Niedzielski — Fri, 11 Jun 2010 13:08:29 +0000

I wrote a similar article on this subject but you nailed it here.

By: herbalecstacy

herbalecstacy — Wed, 17 Mar 2010 14:28:03 +0000

Hi, i just found this here after an fast google search. Neat post you have here! Keep it up!

By: Faye Sellen

Faye Sellen — Tue, 02 Feb 2010 22:48:49 +0000

Hi, interesting site, just a quick question, what filtering program you use for filtering out junk websites because I have been hit by tons on my website.

By: jamal

jamal — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 00:57:56 +0000

Great list! This is what I have been looking for since I switched to Firefox.

By: Dan N

Dan N — Sat, 24 Oct 2009 00:45:19 +0000

As for your analogy ForWhatIt’sWorth, I fail to see the similarity to my dilemma. A car dealership provides a physical product that you can touch, at a modest profit above their cost to manufacture it.

It costs nothing to make an MP3 file. It costs time and money to make the work that is contained in the MP3 file and that compensation is easily paid for by concerts alone.

So I hardly see the justification in the immense fees imposed by the Industry that would equate me to owing them $10 million dollars for providing access to 100,000 MP3 files that only cost me $1000 in bandwidth. They are stifling innovation by imposing levies per download that are higher than what they make from a single song off a physical CD.

There should be a balance. The price should be fair. A digital file does not have the worth of it’s physical counterpart, so why is it more expensive?

By: Dan N

Dan N — Sat, 24 Oct 2009 00:13:55 +0000

ForWhatIt’sWorth, I never said I agree with stealing anything. Downloading a digital file is no more stealing than it is to listen to the radio, depending on who you ask.

What I was saying is that the Industry has failed to capitalize on the digital file like they have on the radio (or any other means).

And now they are well-poised in their attempts to apply a tax to radio stations that always have been and continue to be the most influential promotional tool for radio. I remember when artists used to pay radio stations to get airplay. When did everything become so backward?

The only thing coming now is most radio stations not being able to afford the licensing and having to either close shop or cut back on music and increase in-house or independent content. This will cause a radio fallout with more people moving away from radio in masses as Good programming becomes scarce.

Just another one of the ridiculous tactics of the industry.

I have renewed my efforts to launch my music-sharing website sometime in early 2010. I will still pay the creator as much as possible, as is the right thing to do. But I’m not going to go through any of the licensing organizations. I welcome the attempts by the Industry to shut me down. I won’t be doing anything illegal in my country.