RIAA goes after DJ mix promos

[pod]

http://www.djmag.com/news_20.asp

[MyIbiza]

What's Next ???

Is that a Picture of Space in the article?

[kporterlaw]

This is why I have been advising you guys not to post those demos online.

[LeVeL]

This is dam shame........Dj Mix Promos is the foundation in how to recognize an up and coming DJ or artist..everyone does it. In the days before computers artists use to record mix tapes or demos in tapes and pass them around to people for they can discover them.
Eventually it would end up in a producers hands and the artisits would be discovered to record a record.

It the RIAA goes after Mix Promos it would hurt a lot of up and coming Dj's and Aritist who want their music to be heard or recognize. Now that the net is around this lets a lot of people the ability to hear your music..for that in the next time you would be more recognizable.

This is a dam shame......I hope they stop going after Mix Promos.

[endymion]

Send your demos to me. I listen to all of them eventually. Then I pass them around.

[djdimaggio]

http://www.djmag.com/news_20.asp

[glow=red,2,300]I didn't see this mentioned anywhere on the RIAA site and it seems to be somewhat current with legal issues...wouldn't be good for alotta DJs out there. I can totally understand rangling in the
thousands of mass produced, bootleg cds that are sold at all street fairs under the guise of being from a certain club or a particular DJ but to stop DJs from recording "demos" for industry folk and their peers to share in the development of their art and, I daresay, I fear, the "Art of DJing" may be in jeopardy! :'(

...let's hope not [/glow]

[djdimaggio]

This is why I have been advising you guys not to post those demos online.

[glow=red,2,300]Here's what I've been able to find thus far. *This came from the Village Voice:

RIAA agents, backed up by police, have started to raid Midwestern record stores that carry DJ mixes. On September 23, Berry's Music in Indianapolis, Indiana, was raided; according to proprietor Alan Berry, police confiscated $10,000 worth of mix discs by the likes of DJ World and DJ Paul Bunyan. "The record labels want the independent record stores out of the business," Berry says. "They'd rather deal with Target, Best Buy, Circuit City—it's consolidation, just like any other industry. The RIAA knows that mixes are an integral part of urban stores' culture and profit margin. By eliminating them, they can eliminate a lot of indie stores."

City Music, also in Indianapolis, was raided the following week. "They came in and took anything that was on a recordable CD," manager Jerome Avery says. "The only DJ mixes I had were behind the counter for personal listening, and they confiscated them. How can it be illegal if the artist is making them for the street? They came without a notice—no warrant, no nothing. They're making up their own laws, if you ask me."

The City Music raid happened on October 1, the day the enormous Universal Music Group's new prices went into effect—more bad news for small, independent record stores. Universal's widely publicized $9.09 wholesale prices only apply to the largest retail chains, and only to stores that are willing to buy 30 copies of a disc at one time. Most smaller stores, though, deal with "one-stop" sub-distributors that can fill orders for a disc or two quickly, and take a markup of their own. And many retailers are frustrated that customers have been coming in for weeks, asking where their $9 CDs are.

Eric Haight of Record World in Petoskey, Michigan, notes that a new Sting album before the price drop cost the store $12.69, with a suggested retail price of $18.98. Now it costs them $10.79, with a retail price of $12.98—the profit margin has been slashed by almost two-thirds, and Universal will no longer help them out with advertising costs. "I think their motives are suspect," Haight says. "This won't affect the Best Buys of the world, but I can't see our store making it through 2004."

Corporate America strikes again???
Is Best Buy set to be the Starbucks of the music distribution world?? :'([/glow]

[Bling]

tremedo mierda.

[FernandoC]

crazy stuff

[bcnjunkie]

I don't thinnk they understand it's a whole other ball game !
and yeah... is that a pic of Space ?