Download Uproar: Record Industry Goes After Personal Use

Washington Post ^ | Sunday, December 30, 2007; Page M05 | Marc Fisher

[WVNight]

Despite more than 20,000 lawsuits filed against music fans in the years since they started finding free tunes online rather than buying CDs from record companies, the recording industry has utterly failed to halt the decline of the record album or the rise of digital music sharing.

[WVNight]

Is the RIAA included in the the Dinosaur media death watch?? If not it's time they were added.

[big'ol_freeper]

I was just thinking that very same thing.

[muawiyah]

These guys have the ability to tie up the federal court system completely. They purchased software that allows them to file something like 50,000 lawsuits SIMULTANEOUSLY.

Congress will have to call them up short by mid-Summer is my guess.

In the meantime the declining number of teenagers is what is hurting them, plus the fact that most of the new music they are trying to peddle is unadulterated CR*P.

[Afronaut]

Cut and past this one. Great read if you are interested in the current state of affairs in the Music Biz.

http://www.wired.com/entertainment/music/magazine/16-01/ff_byrne?currentPage=1

[dayglored]

"I know! If we sue the pants off all our horse-and-buggy customers who are now buying automobiles, they'll want to go back to buying buggy whips from us!"

[capt. norm]

The most important sentence:

"The RIAA's legal crusade against its customers is a classic example of an old media company clinging to a business model that has collapsed."

[RetiredArmy]

The last music CD I bought was in the mid 1990s. Here I am a kid of the 1960s and 1970s and that with a bit of 1980s is all I will listen too. Some 1940 and 1950s also. But, nothing much after about mid 90s. Junk.

[dayglored]

> ...the fact that most of the new music they are trying to peddle is unadulterated CR*P.

DING! DING! DING! We have a winner!

Except that you are way too kind. The stuff they're peddling isn't fit to wrap up an over-used toilet bowl brush prior to disposal.

[Rudder]

Live music is where it’s at. Support your local musicians!

[dayglored]

Two minds, single thought!

[Paladin2]

",,,,most of the new music they are trying to peddle is unadulterated CR*P."

I tell my kids that all I've heard lately is "Grade C Rap"

[pnh102]

The last music CD I bought was in the mid 1990s.

I purchased some CDs for Christmas gifts that ranged from $4.99 to $7.99 per disc. The RIAA could solve this problem overnight by lowering the price of CDs to the point at which it is "cheaper" to buy them than to download the tracks illegally.

[Hardastarboard]

most of the new music they are trying to peddle is unadulterated CR*P.

Bingo!!!!

after about mid 90s. Junk.

I always liked what PJ O'Rourke said about modern music (I'm paraphrasing here) "Everything recorded since 1980 (I'd say about 1995 myself) sounds like someone pushed a china cabinet down a stair case".

[dufekin]

If you actually read the article, then you would know that copying songs from your compact disc into audio files on your computer constitutes a serious and grave offense against the recording industry. And if someone else is in the room when you listen, you’d better get an extra copy just in case...

[JoJo Gunn]

ping

[Cowboy Bob]

The record industry need to force more Rap, Hip Hop and Gangsta music on the American public. That is a sure recipe for success! /sarc

[Domandred]

Come and take it!

[mylife]

First off, Mp3’s are a facsimile of recorded music, 1/10 the quality of an analog recording.

The RIAA can kiss my ass.

Live music is better, Bumper stickers should be issued!

[purpleraine]

Meanwhile, announced this week. Virgin Records Megastore on Sunset Blvd. in LA to close. Rent too high, cited as reason.

[pnh102]

If you actually read the article ...

Well I was going to read the article, but as I clicked the link, I was sent a bill for reading a copy of the article without paying for it. :)