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Music Industry Worried About CD Burning
Associated Press ^
| August 14, 2005
| Alex Veiga
Posted on 08/16/2005 10:47:11 AM PDT by jb6
-- Music copied onto blank recordable CDs is becoming a bigger threat to the bottom line of record stores and music labels than online file-sharing, the head of the recording industry's trade group said Friday.
"Burned" CDs accounted for 29 percent of all recorded music obtained by fans in 2004, compared to 16 percent attributed to downloads from online file-sharing networks, said Mitch Bainwol, chief executive for the Recording Industry Association of America.
The data, compiled by the market research firm NPD Group, suggested that about half of all recordings obtained by music fans in 2004 were due to authorized CD sales and about 4 percent from paid music downloads.
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonpost.com ...
TOPICS: Business/Economy
KEYWORDS: business; cd; copying; entertainment; music; recording; riaa; technology
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posted on
08/16/2005 10:47:18 AM PDT
by
jb6
To: jb6
LOL. 15 YEARS LATE YA THINK?
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posted on
08/16/2005 10:48:36 AM PDT
by
zarf
To: jb6
Too late. And unlike online file sharing, recording a CD is completely anonymous. People can take a CD to a neighbor and no one will be the wiser. Even RIAA can't confiscate every CD burner in the country.
(Denny Crane: "Sometimes you can only look for answers from God and failing that... and Fox News".)
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posted on
08/16/2005 10:49:42 AM PDT
by
goldstategop
(In Memory Of A Dearly Beloved Friend Who Lives On In My Heart Forever)
To: jb6
This is just bullcrap being used by the industry to prop up calls for a "pirate tax" on all recordable media.
I've had it with the MPAA and the RIAA and their anti-technology insanity. To hell with them and their damned fascist lawyers.
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posted on
08/16/2005 10:49:43 AM PDT
by
Prime Choice
(E=mc^3. Don't drink and derive.)
To: zarf
Exactly what I was thinking.
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posted on
08/16/2005 10:49:49 AM PDT
by
MarkeyD
(I really, really loathe liberals.)
To: jb6
The can pry my iTunes from my cold dead fingers.
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posted on
08/16/2005 10:49:56 AM PDT
by
My2Cents
("The essence of American journalism is vulgarity divested of truth." -- Winston Churchill)
To: jb6
The only reason anyone would own a CD-burner (or a computer, for that matter) is to enable them to steal from the RIAA.
Anyone who owns a computer should be in prison.
And anyone who does not recognize the above as sarcasm should report to their local chapter of Nincompoops of America immediately.
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posted on
08/16/2005 10:50:24 AM PDT
by
E. Pluribus Unum
(Koran 9:123 "Make war on the infidels who dwell around you.")
To: zarf
If I am paying for and downloading songs, what IS the problem with me burning MY files onto MY blank CDs?
Are they coming after my CD burner now?
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posted on
08/16/2005 10:50:39 AM PDT
by
Howlin
Comment #9 Removed by Moderator
To: E. Pluribus Unum
The only reason anyone would own a CD-burner (or a computer, for that matter) is to enable them to steal from the RIAA. That's why I own one.
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posted on
08/16/2005 10:51:11 AM PDT
by
My2Cents
("The essence of American journalism is vulgarity divested of truth." -- Winston Churchill)
To: E. Pluribus Unum
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posted on
08/16/2005 10:51:22 AM PDT
by
Howlin
To: Howlin
12
posted on
08/16/2005 10:52:01 AM PDT
by
fireforeffect
(A kind word and a 2x4, gets you more than just a kind word.)
To: jb6
What are they worried about?
I didn't think they worked after you burned them....
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To: fireforeffect
Well, now I'm going to have to buy a gun. :-)
NO WAY!
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posted on
08/16/2005 10:54:27 AM PDT
by
Howlin
Comment #16 Removed by Moderator
To: E. Pluribus Unum
And anyone who does not recognize the above as sarcasm should report to their local chapter of Nincompoops of America immediately. Hey, don't be so hard on us. We have to distinguish between Freepers acting stoopid for sarcasm reasons, and Democrat trolls, who aren't acting.
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posted on
08/16/2005 10:57:05 AM PDT
by
Izzy Dunne
(Hello, I'm a TAGLINE virus. Please help me spread by copying me into YOUR tag line.)
To: William Creel
... I've done really risky things with my PC and I've lost everything. Waaaaay too much information. ;)
To: jb6
First it was book burning, now it's CD burning! It's a fascist plot! Fahrenheit 451 all over again!
What? Oh, I see. Copying CD's. That's different.
NEVER MIND!
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posted on
08/16/2005 10:57:52 AM PDT
by
Arkie2
(No, I never voted for Bill Clinton. I don't plan on voting Republican again!)
To: Baynative
I think I heard the same thing about cassettes in the 70's! You did, and you heard it about video in the 1980s.
Wasn't true then, either.
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posted on
08/16/2005 10:58:15 AM PDT
by
Izzy Dunne
(Hello, I'm a TAGLINE virus. Please help me spread by copying me into YOUR tag line.)
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