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Bill Coleman wrote on January 19, 2011
I think you may have mis-understood my point... essentially what I'm trying to say is that fighting music piracy in the digital age is like sitting in a rocking chair - it gives you something to do but it won't get you far. I don't believe that encryption tagging etc will really make a difference. In the cat and mouse game of copy protection, history tells us that when people want to get around DRM, they will. No matter how low the price point goes for legal downloading, you can't compete with free.
My point is that we need to be taking a constructive approach to finding revenue streams outside of the recorded music distribution model, rather then investing in fighting a battle against the pirates that can't be won. Especially for "minority" music interests like jazz. We need to look at ways to make the technology work FOR the artists. Rather then focusing on the negatives of digital music piracy we need to learn how to use new media to promote all these amazing musicians who toil away in obscurity and grab peoples attention. Jazz started as a crazy mix of people and cultures turning convention on it's head. If it is to flourish again, it needs go back to these revolutionary roots.
BTW I'm really sad if what you say about the declining live scene in Boston and NYC is true... I'm glad to report the opposite in Sydney - it's not big, but it is growing.
