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The lower picture may depict copyright infringement but not piracy.
Posted on 01/14/2008 11:17:51 AM PST by Red in Blue PA
It is pretty obvious that most of the Freepers buy little or no music nowadays from the responses to RIAA threads...
And it is pretty obvious that consumer spending will be declining in the intermediate future due to the inflating dollar.
It is no stretch to the imagination that the RIAA and its industry will go the way of the Dodo bird...
I think much of the record company’s whining in this regard is to convince the shareholders it’s not bad management but the dastardly pirates who are causing revenue and stock prices to fall like a rock. Thus they pursue a tactic they know won’t work so as to appear to be doing something. For all the efforts of the RIAA the amount of file sharing has not been dented. Just the networks they know about are still massive and there are other, under the radar, methods which they haven’t even caught up with. They can rearrange the deck chairs all they want but unless they change their model (and the quality of their product) they and their stock, will sink to the bottom.
a bit off topic, does anyone know of a freeware program to use an ipod WITHOUT itunes?
I am not at all sure what will replace the Music industry, but it is not going to be around for long. No money in it for anyone.
don’t forget to post their answers.
Correct. Under the RIAA anytime you lend a book out that you have already read, you are a criminal. Ever borrow someone's book after they have read it? Congratulations, you are a criminal. Did you ever make a cassette tape of an album when you were younger? Yep, criminal.
Look no one should steal music or movies or whatever, but the RIAA has gone bonkers. They are like caged animals who are in their death throws.
As the previous poster pointed out, much of their current problems are a direct result of their stubborn refusal to change their business model. Incidentally, the reason they fought so over their old business model was because at $18 per CD they had the golden goose and they were obscenely greedy.
I distinctly recall many people begging the music industry to establish a legal means to download. They refused. Apple then stepped up to the plate. What happened? The RIAA tried to hamstring Apple with DRM and the music and movie houses still are all bent out of shape that Apple now owns the download market.
The RIAA will never learn. And like the MSM, they are circling the drain and will soon vanish.
Having just gotten an Ipod myself, I can tell you that Itunes is the only way to sync files.
I had been a holdout for a long time, as I don’t like being “locked in” the way Itunes does (like to drag and drop), but the new Ipods were simply too nice to pass up.
I'm thinking RIAA and Hollywood should take a page from the porn industry's management techniques. When was the last time you heard of a porn strike?
Humorous but sometimes you gotta wonder.
This is not:
The lower picture may depict copyright infringement but not piracy.
Isn’t the RIAA trying to get money from radio now for the singers (after 70 80 years of established policy)?
You’re exactly right. The writers and/or artists are the ones who never get paid. Often the legitmate legal owner of the copyright or master recordings will “lease” those to independents (whose corporate offices are often in foreign countries). In arrangements like this, it is my understanding that the “mechanical royalties” are paid upfront to the owner who is then supposed to pay the writers and/or artists. They rarely, if ever, do so. There’s not much that the writer can do about it, either.
Libraries do it all the time !
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Winamp supports it now, or if you use an older version there’s a plugin called “iPod_Support” that works quite nicely. I’ve been using my Shuffle with that since May and found it to work well.
I am not inclined to support the RIAA on this.
I view this as a forced pay cut on musicians and so-called artists. Which is good.
I have been exposed to music, that were I forced to actually pay for it, I would have never investigated. When the cost is free, then one takes a different look at things. Bottom line is “If I’m not willing to pay for it means that I wasn’t going to buy it in the first place.” The things that I do buy, means that I want to reward the artist for their performance.
I have been stung too many times in the past by records that had one or two decent tunes on them, and the rest of it was crap. I consider this as restitution for all of the lousy records that I bought at $9 - $15 for an LP.
The mailaise in the msic industry goes deeper than just the RIAA. Acording to some friends who are in the business, garage bands are a thing of the past due to subdivision restrictions as well as ill-tempered neighbors.
Most of the bands of the future are going to be artifical. Find some people who have the look and teach them to sing and play instruments. Apply some rathr amazing technology (among others, real time pitch riding) and voila, you have a band. Not too difficult, actually.
You mean like Milli Vanilli?
Never doubt the depravity of “artists”, they are like cockroaches.
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