[freepatriot32]

Counterfeit CDs sold across the United States cost music companies $300 million a year

wait i thought napster cost them 300 mill a year then kazaa then gnutzella

[TommyDale]

Here's where the RIAA should spend their efforts -- on people who make illegal copies FOR SALE! Leave those of us who copy OUR OWN CD'S AND TAPES alone. After all, we paid for them once, then we paid a fee for the blanks. How many times does the RIAA expect us to pay?

[Extremely Extreme Extremist]

BOYCOTT THE MUSIC BIZ!! STOP SPENDING MONEY ON CDs THAT ONLY HAVE ONE OR TWO GOOD SONGS ON THEM!!

[BlazingArizona]

Ever wonder why a movie soundtrack CD often costs more than the CD of the same movie?

[proxy_user]

Many of these are bootlegs, not counterfeits.

[Nephi]

What about an internet based club in which you exchange your actual cd with others. What you do with it once it is in your possession is up to you, of course.

The club would charge a membership fee, and let people post their collection so that others could contact them about exchange.

Your identity would be rated according to the quality of the cd's you trade and speed of the exchange, etc.

[Squawk 8888]

sales of compact discs dropped 7 percent in the first half of 2002 after falling 5 percent in 2001

Well, it must be piracy causing the slump. No way it could have anything to do with the quality of product being offered by the record companies...

[Timesink]

I don't have any problem with this. These guys are selling counterfeit items FOR PROFIT. That's entirely different from for-personal-use P2P services.

[weegee]

I heard ABC radio news reporting on this last night. Because of the political correctness though, I am unclear as to what kind of piracy they are talking about. Is this the mix-tape (on CD) that black people have been selling for 20 years now (with no outcry from the RIAA), is this is $1-$3 bootleg CD (with color copied packaging) that is available in Mexico (for many bands that are not even covered by RIAA action and therefore see none of the money gathered by such actions)?

What are we talking about here? What are the neighborhoods?

Gas stations I go to all sell commercially maufactured cassettes for truck drivers (old country, a little (old) top 40, and some Rudy Ray Moore comedy cassettes).

I'd like to see one of these reports about how the RIAA goes busting on bars for having the television set on and a Burger King ad comes on with a song and the RIAA wants money from the bar for that.

[Bloody Sam Roberts]

"Last week, Secret Service agents in New York arrested three men and seized 35,000 illegally copied music discs, 10,000 movies on DVD and 421 compact disc burners that are used to make the counterfeit products. "

Ummm...I don't consider these types "The Little Guy".

[rwfromkansas]

You know, I don't like to do this and have not done it in ages....but you know, if I saw the RIAA president, I would flip him the bird.