Recording industry: CD-burning a bigger problem than file-sharing

News10.net ^ | 13 August 2005

[Caipirabob]

News 10 is a Gannett website which allows only title and link to the story.

[Caipirabob]

When CD Burners are outlawed, only outlaws will have CD Burners!

Well, they got downloaders. Now they want to control how you use your PC at home for private purposes. DO your own search, there are multiple articles on the topic on the web this morning.

I leave it for you to discuss...

[Racehorse]

. . . Recording Industry Association of America says "burned" CDs account for 29 percent of all recorded music obtained by fans in 2004

And they know that . . . how?

[DB]

These people keep going after their customers and then wonder why sales are falling. Not to mention all the crappy way over priced music they've been "producing"...

It looks to me they're determined to burn their house down... Have at it...

The market, we the customers, will have our way whether they like it or not. The more they clamp down the less we'll buy. Either they adapt or die.

[Jess Kitting]

What next?

First they burned books; now they're burning CDs. Looks like censorship has gone high tech.

[prisoner6]

First they came for the File Swappers.

Then they took the CD Burners.

What's next? Will they confiscate my guitar if I play a song they claim is theirs?

How about when I whistle a tune?

Who will stand for me when they come to take my mind because the melodies remain?

prisoner6

[TheBattman]

The "music" industry consistantly ignores one very obvious fact when they complain about loss of sales - the quality (or lack thereof) of their product.

The mainstream music companies are offering more and more garbage to "choose from".

And now with the availabiltiy to download and listen to samples of songs, or even to purchase just the tunes you want instead of complete albums (CD), it's pretty obvious why CD sales are down.

Why is Dodge/Chrysler not still selling the "K-Car"? Becaue it was junk that no-one today with any brains would buy. Why do they not admit that similar market pressures exist in all businesses? OH - then people wouldn't take their complaints seriously (oh-wait, some of us already don't).

[NoControllingLegalAuthority]

I guess the only solution is for multi-national corporations to get out of the music business because it is not the cash cow it used to be.

Hooray!

The day it happens, we will have a true renaissance of recorded music. Creativity and quality will matter again.

I want the recording companies to keep blaming everybody but themselves for their troubles. The consumers are getting the picture.

[Manic_Episode]

Lars Ulrich helped bring down Napster and now he deeply regrets it, as will these guys regret their efforts someday.

[newzjunkey]

[newzjunkey]

Fear not, they're already trying to force a technological "solution" to this. The more they tighten their grip the more star systems err consumers slip through their fingers. This happened in software too. Back in the 80's and 90's the more effort you made to make them uncopyable the more folks resented it and looked toward competitors. Eventually copy protection died and its removal became a feature in updates.

[dennisw]

My public library has a great selection of CDs. They obviously can be duplicated without going to iTunes or Kazaalite

[DeaconRed]

They can have my CD Burner when they take it from my cold dead fingers. OK Arm.

[cambridge]

The Grateful Dead always encourge[d] bootlegs and copies, because they trusted people would like the music enough to see them play live.

Never liked them much, but that business model turned out fine.

[sgtbono2002]

This copying thing must be new. I know when tape recorders came out no one ever dared to copy a recording, and no one ever dared to copy a cassette . I know I for sure never copied a movie on my VCR , nor a TV program either.

What WILL they come up with next? To think that someone might actually copy an ARTISTS work. Its downright laughable.

[I_dmc]

I'm waiting for it to hit the news that along with targeting downloaders, the music industry has targeted small clubs across the US, telling them pay royalties for any song played by anyone in that club, or be sued (yes, Virginia, they'll take your guitar...and your cash). The irony is, the artists who create the music are every bit as much under the thumb of Big Music.

[bikepacker67]

Some industry executives favor releasing more albums in a copy-protected CD format, regardless of backlash from fans. Such CDs typically allow users to burn no more than a handful of copies.

BWHAHAHA! These guys CAN'T REALLY be this IDIOTIC, can they?

"Regardless of the backlash"???

And do they REALLY THINK that they can come up with a CP format that teen hackers won't crack? Pulllease...

[Renegade]

Question?? If they sell an original CD that can only be copied three or four times , is it possible to make unlimited copies of the copy ?

[ShadowDancer]

is it possible to make unlimited copies of the copy ?

I would think so. Kind of makes their effort pointless, doesn't it?

[Gorzaloon]

. . . Recording Industry Association of America says "burned" CDs account for 29 percent of all recorded music obtained by fans in 2004

And they know that . . . how?

They know that they want a media tax on blank CD's, I bet.

Suing grandmothers for file sharing has not been lucrative enough.

But I wonder who is doing their PR Efforts, Don Rickles?

[Wolfie]

I would think the real problem for the recording industry are pay services that allow you to buy the one good song (for around $1.00) from a collection of crappy songs that would cost you $18.00 if you bought the whole CD.