Conductor and GristyMcFisty both used our news submit to let us know that the German Band Eisbrecher are going against the music comapany's anti-copy measures.
The German Band Eisbrecher is biting back at the music industries on behalf of 'criminalised' music buyers by encouraging their customers make private copies of their album. The first 5,000 copies of their debut album will come with two official CD-R's for consumers to make two legal private copies. The lead singer said that music buyers have been 'criminalised enough' and even made responsible as well as blamed for the current state the international music industry corporations are in.
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Lead singer with the outfit, Alexx Wesselsky, said music buyers had been "criminalized enough" and had 'been made responsible for the wretched state in the music industry." "We are giving them the chance to make 2 legal copies for private use with 'official blanks'," he said. "It can't always be that the end users have to take the blame for something that international corporations have arranged with their artist-burning methods," Wesselsky added, in a statement on the band's website here. The first 5000 copies of the album will come with the blank CDs. Eisbrecher's official news on this can be accessed here. |
It goes to show that many artists are really getting fed up with the music industry's actions. Some artists don't even mind consumers giving away copies prior to them performing live as the artists make many times more from concert tickets being sold than CDs, thus using sharing as a good method of advertising their music. Some music companies on the other hand are going to extreme measures to prevent copying such as making anti-rip CDs and soon even plugging the analogue loophole .
Source: The Inquirer
