In your case it's not pirating, put your next songs on P2P and get FREE PROMOTION!
Then if you become popular you can sell your own CD, it's not that hard and if you become real popular you can make big $$ on a concert.

VCR tapes are $3 to rent. no wonder people don't "pirate" them. Same with music, if it was $1 for a CD no one would bother with P2P.

Until the RIAA BEAST goes on a diet, it is WAR.

I like this attitude, indeed I do

Unregistered, I've already put some tracks of mine on Gnutella

Try searching for:

Lorena-Power of the Waves
Lorena-SeaSunrise
or
Macterminator

I'm only a leaf node with dialup so I doubt you'll be able to see them and I haven't noticed anyone uploading them (maybe I'll try the standard technique of naming them 'Britney Spears nudeXXX')

great post mac_terminator; very informative.

It is rediculous that a handful of major corporations own virtually ALL the media outlets in the USA. You NEED to read this page:

http://www.adbusters.org/campaigns/m...lbox/who_owns/

These six or seven companies (including GENERAL ELECTRIC; WESTINGHOUSE / CBS; VIACOM INTERNATIONAL; DISNEY; AOL-TIME-WARNER; NEWS CORPORATION / FOX NETWORKS) own an astounding amount of all the radio and TV stations, magazines, music labels, and movie studios, as well as several huge newspapers in America (not to mention lots of stuff in the rest of the world).

These are the companies that are being financially hurt by filesharing piracy? As someone else pointed out in another thread, the physical distribution of media is obsolete. This is no surprise. Companies have pushed hard for (and the people have expected) computers to take on the role of all-in-one entertainment centers for at least a decade.

These "Media Middlemen" would have had to alter their sales methods and PRICES as a result regardless of the explosion of piracy. No one is going to pay CD prices for "bits and bytes."

Perhaps the People should be able to set a maximum amount of profit allowed to all industries. This is especially important when the only competition to any given conglomerate is other conglomerates!

If the people who made wax impressions for the first recordings had the same amount of control of the industry and clout with the government as our current media corporations, would I be listening to the phonograph now?

If your stuff is good people will re-share it, so tell us more about your music, like what type it is, any stories it tells etc...
In other words, with all the crap that is thrown in front of people now days, why should I spend my time or even concentrate long enough to type in your keywords hoping to get this song?
Think about it from our point of view.

if you have to tell everyone it exists and you are the only node that has it, you are doomed.
So mp3.com or other central places are a good thing to use.

Are you ready to sue? GET ON IT!

"On April 25, 2002 a lawsuit was filed against the Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA). The lawsuit, filed in U.S. District Court, is the result of the wrongful shutdown of Michael Rossi's web site, InternetMovies.com."

"By filing this lawsuit against the MPAA, Michael Rossi wants to show that the small entrepreneur can stand up to Hollywood and its unfair business practices. "
YEA!!!!

http://www.infoanarchy.org/story/2002/5/30/0838/27133

I have other distribution channels for my music, but here is obviously not the place to go into details.

i think it hilarious that the music industry is crying about file sharing when they spew out promo cds that end up for sale in used cd bins and on ebay. also how can music that isn't even released yet show up on file sharing networks? recording industry police thyself!

complain all you want about "greedy capitalists", but just keep in mind that without companies looking for profits, we'd be lucky to have 8088 cpu's with a 300 baud modem. p2p wouldn't work so well under that circumstance...

here's a thought, though.. for the majority of history, music has been performed live. whether it be at a spiritual ceremony, a concert hall during the renassiance, the songs sung by slaves in the 1800s, or any other time music existed prior to the invention and popularization of the phonograph and derivitives.

the "music industry" is a relatively new concept.

i believe that eventually, we'll return to that historical trend. cd's (or whatever format is popular) will gradually become akin to promotional flyers for live concerts, and the concerts will most likely be the prime source of revenue.

Profit is fine, but when distribution costs drop to near zero they still charge the same overblown amounts.
If they simply lower their price to a amount no one would care to spend their time downloading, then it would be over today and P2P would mostly die.

NOTICE TO RIAA: If you want to kill P2P, quit paying lawyers millions and lower your price so it's not worth it to download when you can get a nice packaged product for a reasonable price.