Once upon a time there was a documentary called R.I.P. manifesto,which is about how the government is trying to censor what people can and cant put into songs or upload to you tube. I think this show is bias towards the government. and I totally agree with them, if we don't stand up, then who will. the reason people don't stand up is because of the plain fact that the government has put fear into the citizens.And they way they did this was a little thing they call copyright, if a band hears a bit of their song in a remix, they can sue them and take all there money because that song belongs to them, that is what copy right is.
If you get caught copy righting you can be fined up to 20,000$ depending on how bad the case is. there are a couple of cases of everyday people getting sued for illegally downloading songs,some get up to $300,000 dollars for only 8 songs. i think this is outrageous because the people making those songs all make millions of dollars a year just over there tours.so a couple people not paying 1.99 on i tunes is not going to hurt them that badly. And then there are people who like to make mash-ups. that's where you take different parts of different song and mash it all together in a certain pattern,that makes it a different song all together. And those people have to watch themselves, because the music industries are always looking for money,so they will target these people and try to get the most money they can out of them.
That is why I think the people who go on stage and play mash-ups are the ones telling the government that they aren't going to back down. even though they know what legal actions might follow, they still get up on stage and play, because that's what they love to do, and they aren't going to let the government take that away from them. if they keep going, I think one or two things are going to happen. either the government is going to give up and let the people play the music they want. or the government is going to start laying down even harsher punishments for the artists who get caught copyrighting.
If you get caught copy righting you can be fined up to 20,000$ depending on how bad the case is. there are a couple of cases of everyday people getting sued for illegally downloading songs,some get up to $300,000 dollars for only 8 songs. i think this is outrageous because the people making those songs all make millions of dollars a year just over there tours.so a couple people not paying 1.99 on i tunes is not going to hurt them that badly. And then there are people who like to make mash-ups. that's where you take different parts of different song and mash it all together in a certain pattern,that makes it a different song all together. And those people have to watch themselves, because the music industries are always looking for money,so they will target these people and try to get the most money they can out of them.
That is why I think the people who go on stage and play mash-ups are the ones telling the government that they aren't going to back down. even though they know what legal actions might follow, they still get up on stage and play, because that's what they love to do, and they aren't going to let the government take that away from them. if they keep going, I think one or two things are going to happen. either the government is going to give up and let the people play the music they want. or the government is going to start laying down even harsher punishments for the artists who get caught copyrighting.
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