[pp.int.general] Protest certain musicians?

[Christian Hufgard]

Nicolas Sahlqvist wrote:
> On Sun, Nov 1, 2009 at 11:57 AM, Christian Hufgard
> <pp at christian-hufgard.de>wrote:
> 
>> That's exactly why I propagate the use of sharing of free content
>> instead of using unfree stuff. :)
>>
> Free content vs. unfree content is interesting to discuss, I went through
> sites such as jamendo.com that claim to distribute free music and listened
> carefully on some of the tunes, it did not take me long time to find a lot
> inspired from unfree content where in some cases with the original artists
> voice in the tune.. 

I also reported an album there, that was definitivly unfree.

> It is up to the "artist" that releases the music to
> decide if it is free content where later a court of law may deem it is not
> due to how inspired the "artist" was of unfree content. This happens in the
> commercial music industry and artists loose there revenue in such court
> cases so how can you be sure that the music that is claimed to be free
> actually is free?

Well, there's a big difference between "being inspired by someone else",
 "using someone elses vocals" and "declare own work as free". :)

Christian