RIAA is shutting down mixtape industry

[QuietTruth]

You guys are exagerrating some of this stuff. Mixtapes aren't going away, just the ones that are being sold as an 'unofficial album'.

But go look at Mixunit.com, it turns your stomach.

[Tanjential]

why would free shit turn your stomach? i guess i didn't see the site before...-T

[QuietTruth]

^ The website is empty.

Plus you can't buy them. So those 'free streaming new mixtapes' you can only listen to on the computer. And it'll be the 'hottest new mixtapes' releases they'll be playing.

[proverbs aka DD]

Do you think it's right for someone to take someone's beat and song concept and make a profit off of it?

You know, in other genre's of music, they call it 'cover'. If a garage band covers a popular group's song, they shouldn't be able to market it out and sell it as a 'mixtape'.  Covering is fine, to perform. They sell sheet music for most songs anyways. But when you're doing voiceovers on a track that you had nothing to do with, then you shouldn't be able to make a financial profit off it..

This has nothing to do with someone creating a demo or 'covering' a song and releasing it to gain exposure. Everyone does it, not just rappers.

[QuietTruth]

Come on, it's a beat, for a mixtape. It's not an actual songgg.

[Tanjential]

and lots of rock bands make money off covers, and covers are often in albums.

-T

[MIAMI4LIFE]

pretty soon they are gonna stop manufacturing CD's, the future of music is going Digital I just read somewhere that legal single downloads are selling in the millions

[QuietTruth]

8 Tracks to Cassettes to Cd Players to I Pods to who knows what next.

[Tanjential]

8 Tracks to Cassettes to Cd Players to I Pods to who knows what next.

just smaller IPods, what else can there be? liquid?

-T

[MIAMI4LIFE]

 got my Ipod Nano, I gotta ride the train to work every morning to NYC so this shit is genius whoever invented it