Nine Inch Nails hammer into Record company
Copyright is arguably The issue of early 21st century media. A battlefield formed where Industrial Revolution concepts of intellectual property collide with a mass-culture drenched with computer machines whose only core function is to copy, replicate and distribute.
But amid this inherently problematic environment there persists many of the same arguments waged between artists and 'management' that have always been waged regardless of technology. Nine Inch Nails central figure
Trent Reznor has let fly on stage at his concerts in Sydney with a tirade against his own record company. Accusing them of greed and deliberate exploitation of fans he openly urged the crowd to
"Steal it. Steal away. Steal, steal and steal some more and give it to all your friends and keep on stealing.... Because one way or another these mother fuckers will get it through their head that they're ripping people off and that's not right"Whilst these disputes between artists and agents and accusation of greed are nothing new and for certain can be traced back through history, the difference is now when the artist cries Foul, the fans have the ability to act on it. The cries of the artist are no longer hollow but evoke a real power, power derived by a populous turning to their technology and using it for exactly the purpose it was designed for.
Posted at 01:00AM Sep 27, 2007
by Mike Jones in moving image theory |
