I’ve been quoted in the paper.
Sadly, the article focuses heavily on the downsides of using p2p networks to get music from RIAA-signed artists. Worse, it equates “famous” artists with RIAA-signed artists. Perhaps I didn’t communicate clearly. I come out like this:
Palmer said the idea of downloading MP3 files for free and legally from famous artists, whether from Ruckus or any other software, is an illusion.
“It’s a unicorn,” he said. “It doesn’t exist. If you really have to have their music, then bite the bullet and get it through iTunes or Amazon.com or any number of other online retailers.”
I spoke for nearly 45 minutes with the reporter and was a bit disappointed that she didn’t mention Creative Commons and only mentioned Magnatune and emusic.com briefly at the end. I showed her the magnatune integration in amarok. I talked about getting Spoon’s new album from emusic.com after seeing a youtube video. Where’d all that go? The graphic and the headline are painful, too. Looks like COSI and Free Culture have a lot of work to do.
