<story><title>HipHop: A &quot;Popcorn Time&quot; for music</title><url>http://gethiphop.net/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>angusb</author><text>I know that there&amp;#x27;s a kick to be got out of circumventing the draconian rules big music&amp;#x2F;film industry lobby into law, but what do the writers think about independents that they effectively take down in the same blow? This is a genuine question, not an attack.&lt;p&gt;I&amp;#x27;ve spent a lot of time studying&amp;#x2F;writing&amp;#x2F;playing music and through that have got to personally know many of the most talented and versatile musicians I&amp;#x27;ve ever come across. These people are skilled like Douglas Crockford, John Resig, you name it. But they have to make the assumption that the music they want to do - their own music - will never make any money in a recorded format, forcing them to do wedding gigs during the day instead.&lt;p&gt;I&amp;#x27;m interested to know what people think about this. Do people think that the end (taking power away from big music industry) justifies the loss for those small-time players, or is it something that simply hasn&amp;#x27;t been considered at all?&lt;p&gt;Do you have a justification for saying that all music should be free, or is it just that it would be nice if all music was free?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>krig</author><text>&amp;gt; I&amp;#x27;m interested to know what people think about this. Do people think that the end (taking power away from big music industry) justifies the loss for those small-time players, or is it something that simply hasn&amp;#x27;t been considered at all?&lt;p&gt;My opinion: The end justifies the loss.&lt;p&gt;Secure and private file sharing is going to be essential for ensuring liberty in the future. I am absolutely convinced about that. You can&amp;#x27;t have that and make piracy impossible at the same time. The people who make tools for circumventing digital restrictions today are doing the groundwork for essential technology of the future.</text></comment>
<story><title>HipHop: A &quot;Popcorn Time&quot; for music</title><url>http://gethiphop.net/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>angusb</author><text>I know that there&amp;#x27;s a kick to be got out of circumventing the draconian rules big music&amp;#x2F;film industry lobby into law, but what do the writers think about independents that they effectively take down in the same blow? This is a genuine question, not an attack.&lt;p&gt;I&amp;#x27;ve spent a lot of time studying&amp;#x2F;writing&amp;#x2F;playing music and through that have got to personally know many of the most talented and versatile musicians I&amp;#x27;ve ever come across. These people are skilled like Douglas Crockford, John Resig, you name it. But they have to make the assumption that the music they want to do - their own music - will never make any money in a recorded format, forcing them to do wedding gigs during the day instead.&lt;p&gt;I&amp;#x27;m interested to know what people think about this. Do people think that the end (taking power away from big music industry) justifies the loss for those small-time players, or is it something that simply hasn&amp;#x27;t been considered at all?&lt;p&gt;Do you have a justification for saying that all music should be free, or is it just that it would be nice if all music was free?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>massappeal</author><text>I&amp;#x27;m not involved with this project at all, but I do think you raise some interesting points.&lt;p&gt;First of all lets acknowledge the fact that if these tracks are on Youtube, they are publicly available for free, and unless they are registering 100k+ views per song, these artists are not making any money off these tracks.&lt;p&gt;Second, musicians taking wedding gigs and whatnot to supplement their creative careers is not a result of piracy; musicians, filmmakers and photographers have been doing that since always and probably always will.&lt;p&gt;Third, if these musicians are resorting to private functions like weddings to finance their creative career, its likely that they don&amp;#x27;t have a wide enough fan base and revenue stream for a product like this to significantly affect them.&lt;p&gt;In my opinion.</text></comment>