Today is the day that our Annotated Bibliography is due. I chose the subject of copyright infringement concentrating on illegal music downloads. Thank God we don’t have to write a paper becuase I’m about papered out! Doing this instead is so much better. I could see in some high level class that an instructor would make the class wirte a 15 page paper with an annotated bibliography just to teach the students about how to do an annotated bibliography. That would make me pretty mad. Well this is just a 100 level class so I knew if we had to write a paper it would only need to be like 2-3 pages. So thank your Mrs. Radom for taking it easy on us. While researching for books to use in the assignment I came across, The Music Business. This book is like a handbook or a guide on how to be succesful in the Music Business. Things like stage presence, a good sound, and distribution are imortant in being a succesful musician. The part that pertains to my subject is the very last chapter. It is about the Internet and how to be aware of copyright infringement and illeagal distribution of ones digital music. This subject is important for me becuase I am a musician that plays in a band. My band went to Atlanta a month ago to record a single and we are awaiting the mastered, master copy. Now this will come to us as a Compact Disc but I know once our singer recieves it in the mail, he’s going to put it right on the internet. With a single I don’t care who has a digital copy of it; but if it was an entire album I would be worried about posting it on the Internet. Hopefully some day I can be a proffesional musician so I don’t ever have to work and hopefully Illegal downloads will stop right around the time we make it big; HUGE!!!
Hey Eliot, I enjoyed reading your little biblography and it sounds very intriging. I cant wait till Admiral of the Black goes big so I can rip all yalls head-banging metal off the internet. JK, you know I would buy the CD, lol!