And if music sales are tanking, the main reason is the awful quality of what passes for popular music these days.
Exhibit A: "Flava Flav"
Posted on 12/19/2008 8:26:38 AM PST by Stoat
After years of suing thousands of people for allegedly stealing music via the Internet, the recording industry is set to drop its legal assault as it searches for more effective ways to combat online music piracy.
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Instead, the Recording Industry Association of America said it plans to try an approach that relies on the cooperation of Internet-service providers
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If the customers continue the file-sharing, they will get one or two more emails, perhaps accompanied by slower service from the provider. Finally, the ISP may cut off their access altogether.
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About damn time.
It seems like a better match between the punishment and the crime.
THAT'S a winning change.
It’s way worse. This strategy will turn your ISP into a private police force for the RIAA.
We are conservatives. The use of the internet is not a right, nor is there any privacy on the internet. This is a solution that effectively punishes the guilty, acts as a deterent, protects peoples intellectual property in one of the few ways that might actually work.
At least the damn liberals will have to start paying for their Dixie Chicks and Black Eyed Peas.
No mention of the key points that are required (e.g. damages for false accusation on a level equivalent to the damages extracted from an actual infringer who gets caught).
—protects peoples intellectual property—
Nonsense. If someone wants to share a song from a CD he legall purchased, there is nothing wrong with that. Downloading an mp3 for free is not theft, as the mp3 file has no corporeal existence. Unless you are worried that Britney Spears may have to purchase her blond hair dye off the shelf.
“Meanwhile, music sales continue to fall. In 2003, the industry sold 656 million albums. In 2007, the number fell to 500 million CDs and digital albums, plus 844 million paid individual song downloads — hardly enough to make up the decline in album sales.”
- They are suffering the same fate as the car companies, people don’t want to buy their over-priced crappy products anymore. Maybe they’ll get a bailout too.
More like cheaper.
The "recording" "Industry" is dead.
Except for live concerts, acting, or worse ads, there is no money left.
Hardcore uploaders/downloaders will start using software which blocks their IP address. There are so many occasional downloaders that the ISP won’t be able (or even want to, for financial reasons) to go after them. And if music sales are tanking, the main reason is the awful quality of what passes for popular music these days.
I’m no fan of Oprah, but she is giving away Christmas music downloads on her site, if anyone is interested. http://www.oprah.com/article/oprahshow/20081118_tows_holiday/2
“Nonsense. If someone wants to share a song from a CD he legall purchased, there is nothing wrong with that. Downloading an mp3 for free is not theft, as the mp3 file has no corporeal existence.”
You are flat wrong. You are so wrong I don’t even know where to start.
Speak for yourself. Being a conservative, I have an expectation of privacy on the internet.
Great, now ISPs are going to be spying on us even more.
I realized a while back that the industry’s approach to intellectual property disturbed me on a level well below my intellectual understanding of the legal issues: these guys were determined to extract every penny they could from their “property” - if they could find a way to make you pay a licensing fee to on their tunes they would cheerfully do so - and the resulting legal battles and copyright technologies and general level of inconvenience and unpleasantness just eventually turned me off to recorded music entirely, I rarely buy anything these days, and when I do I buy it used on CD on Amazon.
Exhibit A: "Flava Flav"
Err, that SHOULD be:
I realized a while back that the industry’s approach to intellectual property disturbed me on a level well below my intellectual understanding of the legal issues: these guys were determined to extract every penny they could from their “property” - if they could find a way to make you pay a licensing fee to hum their tunes they would cheerfully do so - and the resulting legal battles and copyright technologies and general level of inconvenience and unpleasantness just eventually turned me off to recorded music entirely, I rarely buy anything these days, and when I do I buy it used on CD on Amazon.
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