By Carol Archer radioandrecords.com
Narada artist saxophonist Euge Groove responds to the following Notable Quote from ArtistShare president Brian Camelio: "Just like ice men lost their jobs with the advent of the first electric refrigerator, businesses that depend on selling recorded music, sadly, no longer have a product to sell, because music is easily obtained for free via illegal downloading. Groove writes: "It implies that the record companies are being rendered obsolete like the 'ice man's' job due to a new invention and labels, artists, writers and publishers just need to move on. While the new invention, Internet distribution, has changed the way labels distribute, the ice men didn't have their ice stolen. That's a huge difference. Brian's quote implies that it's the record companies' fault for not moving on.
"I don't think it all falls there. When the labels, publishers, music rights groups, etc., all tried to shut down the stealing with both DRM and shutting sites down in the courts, the courts shut down the labels. Demanding everything from refunds and restitution to consumers whose discs had protective software, to letting companies like Napster continue to exist while the cases were being tried. At the real heart of it was a President who chose not to do his job by protecting copy- written intellectual property. It is indeed the President's job to enforce our laws. Congress makes them and Judicial declares them constitutional. In a time of industry bailouts, which perpetuates the notion that 'Americans don't make anything anymore,' this situation is even more sad. Music and art, in general, is one thing that we make quite well. Hopefully, the new administration will realize this and do [its] job of enforcing the laws already on the books. Then the music industry can get back to making what it makes best -- great music."
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