IMRO Limited Online Exploitation Licence (1 Viewer)

[billygannon]

How about e-mailing mp3s?
How will IMRO find that out and will the senders have to pay?

 

[Unicron]

One of the other bands, think they're call Mia Sparrow, have also pulled out of the IMRO gig.

 

[spuded]

IMRO does the collection in Ireland for everyone. oh except the punx.

heres hoping your right, I've had nearly 10,000 downloads off the blog in the past year, all out of print and 99% of the time I know someone in one of the bands (or through someone else). If IMRO come knocking they really can fuck right off. I'm trying to promote and pay homage to the hundreds of bands they never even fucking heard of, fuck them.

 

[dregin]

You don't actually host any of the MP3s though.... they can hardly charge you for linking to mediafire.

 

[Lili Marlene]

heres hoping your right, I've had nearly 10,000 downloads off the blog in the past year, all out of print and 99% of the time I know someone in one of the bands (or through someone else). If IMRO come knocking they really can fuck right off. I'm trying to promote and pay homage to the hundreds of bands they never even fucking heard of, fuck them.

Are any of those out of print bands members of IMRO though? This isn't about shutting down Pirate Bay or that kind of thing, it's about people who are members of an organisation who are billed with collecting money for them for performances/plays or whatever, right? From what I can tell by joining IMRO you actually sign off some of the rights to your songs? or recordings?

It's also about pushing old legislation on new technology and watching everything fall apart

How about e-mailing mp3s?
How will IMRO find that out and will the senders have to pay?

from now on if you want to hear a song you e-mail the blogger your home address and they post a tape to you

 

[taubstumm]

gonna be selling off all my second-hand mp3s next week here, pm me if you're interested

 

[spuded]

Are any of those out of print bands members of IMRO though?

Cant find a list on that site, but I'm sure most aren't, so as long as I don't host shit I'm fine? Mediafire all the way then, great resource mediafire, 340 GB bandwidth served, 10,000 downloads and storing 6gb of music for me all for free

 

[Bren Jacob]

I had heard earlier today that the gig had been pulled but I'v just got an email from imro to say that the gig is still on.

One of the other bands, think they're call Mia Sparrow, have also pulled out of the IMRO gig.

 

[Andy_aurel]

The Cast of Cheers pulled out of the IMRO Best of Tour showcase tomorrow night (which they were headlining) over this.

Nice one.

Are they mad? They'll never eat lunch in this town again.

 

[jcdonaggio]

gig is defo still on.

 

[quackster]

my respect to the bands that have pulled out of it. i hope that's not whitewashed on the night and that IMRO acknowledge the contentious issue behind their withdrawal and maybe start thinking like some of the bands in their association rather than some of the record companies.

 

[Unicron]

my respect to the bands that have pulled out of it. i hope that's not whitewashed on the night and that IMRO acknowledge the contentious issue behind their withdrawal and maybe start thinking like some of the bands in their association rather than some of the record companies.

There aren't any record companies in IMRO.

 

[ann post]

my respect to the bands that have pulled out of it. i hope that's not whitewashed on the night and that IMRO acknowledge the contentious issue behind their withdrawal and maybe start thinking like some of the bands in their association rather than some of the record companies.

according to the imro site the gig started 12 minutes before this post - is anyone at it??

 

[Anthony]

I'm not 100% against the principal of this licience in certain cases but I've been thinking about all this. The implications are actually massive. It may have started with them but it's not about blogs and it's not about Irish bands or IMRO or Ireland. All the MROs are connected and this is probably a worldwide thing. It sounds more like an attack on the mp3 format than anything else. Sure blogs can keep providing links to music hosted by the bands themselves. Which means the bands' hosting company is liable for the bill. They refuse to pay (and who'd expect them to) the bands can't provide mp3s. So every band and record company moves to the soundclouds and youtubes who already have things in place.... you can see the potential problems here.
Bands can get creative though and find other ways to provide their digital music free and directly to people, it's already got me thinking and I've got some ideas.

 

[quackster]

There aren't any record companies in IMRO.

stupid of me to say and fair cop

as far as i understand though many board members of IMRO over the years have had a record company background, and where I'm coming from is that it seems to me that IMRO is more concerned with the interests of established than 'emerging' artists.

 

[Bren Jacob]

I was at it, really good gig and no there was no mention of the two bands that pulled out.
The Minutes were fantastic, a really powerful rock n' roll set and I was surprised by Miracle Bell who I also really enjoyed.
Probably gonna head along to Miracle Bell's album launch at Andrews Lane next friday on the strength of their set last night.

according to the imro site the gig started 12 minutes before this post - is anyone at it??

 

[Lili Marlene]

Anyone know the Whatmans stance on this issue?

They are, after all, regarded as ireland's hardest working band.

 

[Cormcolash]

Apparently Gerry Ryan has died in protest at this

 

[jcdonaggio]

First time seeing miracle bell, thought there were class. The minutes are funny fuckers too.

Massive respect for dave fanning-he was clearly in bits but still did a pro job of introducing the bands and spent time chatting to each band beforehand and afterwards.

 

[shower another shower]

Anyone know the Whatmans stance on this issue?

They are, after all, regarded as ireland's hardest working band.

Sure, they're gonna clean up, just like U2.