Fernando Ubiergo, songwriter
Today we know that access and widespread use of technologies in the network forever changed the habits of consuming music in the world. Internet is today the great square where consumers presenting the new music, a field that we find ways to ensure and expedite access and reconcile the rights recognized in conditions of fairness for both authors and the public in the transfer digital works.
the way millions of people today relate to music, far from being a fad is only the noise, of a huge force plates or trend that came into our lives to stay and do not understand is how to ignore that the moon moves tides. Furthermore
part we note that most music lovers think that downloading music from the Internet is free, when indeed it is not. But this splendid myth functions as a smokescreen for the server nodes, or Carriers, who religiously months to bill us for every second line. Somehow, millions of people are already paying their monthly airtime spent to download music files, only that their money is integrated into the wrong pocket, a fact that owners do not think virtual highways are interested change.
.
Carriers promote the habit of uploading or downloading music, and squeeze every last second of each connection citizen. Every drop exponentially multiplied song becomes part of a global slot. So we must bear in mind, never download music from Internet for free, whether we do so from informal sites such as, Ares, Youtube or Myspace. Someone is charging for that. Download
of Internet music creates a sense of gratitude, but it is only an illusion, a mirage, this practice also because someone paid them, and not just who in justice rests. Is that today enriches the habit massive carriers, (ie first world corporations) and further impoverishes the authors and musicians to see how traffic Songs continues to contribute to swell the coffers of
millonarios.com
Despite this apparent imbalance, correct, the future of music will transit over the Internet, without doubt, it is the most promising and versatile area which it has known all its history.
What is important, not only by the authors, is that this means coexisting with equanimity and respect the copyright reconciled with the natural desire to know, that moves millions of people to share music online and now hanging on subtle and unpleasant, some moral punishment for a crime which in my view, it is not.
Personally, I do not keep my songs under lock and key, unlike I like people to come to them, that gives greater meaning to this vocation. But something very different to confuse this feeling, so common among musicians, with an act of surrender or abandonment to one's craft.
No one in the name of culture or the holy trinity, an author should hint to give up their rights because in the only attempt to hurt the dignity of a decent human being aspires to live off the fruits of their labor.
is not enough that a community or the State or the rights that every author has on his works, if at the same time does not guarantee or safeguard the effective implementation of this principle. All artistic creation can be a legacy and as such, joining many other expressions that from a time and place suggest the features of or relating to the identity, and this applies to music as for all creative expressions, books, movies, plays, paintings, etc. . Especially in a globalized landscape we inhabit.
The direction is correct, in not following the habits of demonizing people and achieving the authors' recognition and reward of those who profit from their works today, intact.
Today we know that access and widespread use of technologies in the network forever changed the habits of consuming music in the world. Internet is today the great square where consumers presenting the new music, a field that we find ways to ensure and expedite access and reconcile the rights recognized in conditions of fairness for both authors and the public in the transfer digital works.
the way millions of people today relate to music, far from being a fad is only the noise, of a huge force plates or trend that came into our lives to stay and do not understand is how to ignore that the moon moves tides. Furthermore
part we note that most music lovers think that downloading music from the Internet is free, when indeed it is not. But this splendid myth functions as a smokescreen for the server nodes, or Carriers, who religiously months to bill us for every second line. Somehow, millions of people are already paying their monthly airtime spent to download music files, only that their money is integrated into the wrong pocket, a fact that owners do not think virtual highways are interested change.
.
Carriers promote the habit of uploading or downloading music, and squeeze every last second of each connection citizen. Every drop exponentially multiplied song becomes part of a global slot. So we must bear in mind, never download music from Internet for free, whether we do so from informal sites such as, Ares, Youtube or Myspace. Someone is charging for that. Download
of Internet music creates a sense of gratitude, but it is only an illusion, a mirage, this practice also because someone paid them, and not just who in justice rests. Is that today enriches the habit massive carriers, (ie first world corporations) and further impoverishes the authors and musicians to see how traffic Songs continues to contribute to swell the coffers of
millonarios.com
Despite this apparent imbalance, correct, the future of music will transit over the Internet, without doubt, it is the most promising and versatile area which it has known all its history.
What is important, not only by the authors, is that this means coexisting with equanimity and respect the copyright reconciled with the natural desire to know, that moves millions of people to share music online and now hanging on subtle and unpleasant, some moral punishment for a crime which in my view, it is not.
Personally, I do not keep my songs under lock and key, unlike I like people to come to them, that gives greater meaning to this vocation. But something very different to confuse this feeling, so common among musicians, with an act of surrender or abandonment to one's craft.
No one in the name of culture or the holy trinity, an author should hint to give up their rights because in the only attempt to hurt the dignity of a decent human being aspires to live off the fruits of their labor.
is not enough that a community or the State or the rights that every author has on his works, if at the same time does not guarantee or safeguard the effective implementation of this principle. All artistic creation can be a legacy and as such, joining many other expressions that from a time and place suggest the features of or relating to the identity, and this applies to music as for all creative expressions, books, movies, plays, paintings, etc. . Especially in a globalized landscape we inhabit.
The direction is correct, in not following the habits of demonizing people and achieving the authors' recognition and reward of those who profit from their works today, intact.
