CD rental place like Netflix?

[Nitemare]

Do you think the RIAA would leave it alone also do you think it would make money?

 

[waylman]

it would be perfectly legal as NetFlix is
I think it would make money, since there are alot of n00bs out there that think Kazaa is the only place to download music

 

[LuNoTiCK]

It's pretty obvious that most people who have it are going to be copying the cd's.

 

[waylman]

Originally posted by: LuNoTiCK
It's pretty obvious that most people who have it are going to be copying the cd's.

right, but it would still be a legal company. RIAA couldn't touch them.

 

[MikeyIs4Dcats]

Legal but probably not profitable. The average person is able to download and burn music much more easily than DVDs.

 

[Nitemare]

Originally posted by: waylman

Originally posted by: LuNoTiCK
It's pretty obvious that most people who have it are going to be copying the cd's.

right, but it would still be a legal company. RIAA couldn't touch them.

Does not mean they would not try and make your life miserable

 

[waylman]

Originally posted by: Nitemare

Originally posted by: waylman

Originally posted by: LuNoTiCK
It's pretty obvious that most people who have it are going to be copying the cd's.

right, but it would still be a legal company. RIAA couldn't touch them.

Does not mean they would not try and make your life miserable

Not sure what you mean. The company is doing nothing wrong. The RIAA could do nothing. If the company promoted burning the CD's, then there would be a problem.

 

[Nitemare]

Originally posted by: MikeyIs4Dcats
Legal but probably not profitable. The average person is able to download and burn music much more easily than DVDs.

New CD's cost as much or more than DVD's...yet strangely enough they do not cost 50-100 million dollars to produce.

There would be alot of piracy going on even if it was legal. Pirates would have access to the complete cd and could rip at 256 or higher, plus they would not have to worry about the RIAA tracking them down and sueing for 250k per song.

 

[Nitemare]

Originally posted by: waylman

Originally posted by: Nitemare

Originally posted by: waylman

Originally posted by: LuNoTiCK
It's pretty obvious that most people who have it are going to be copying the cd's.

right, but it would still be a legal company. RIAA couldn't touch them.

Does not mean they would not try and make your life miserable

Not sure what you mean. The company is doing nothing wrong. The RIAA could do nothing. If the company promoted burning the CD's, then there would be a problem.

People can sue regardless of whether they are in the right or wrong. Some sue just to reach settlements with no intention of ever going to court. Everything would be perfectly legal within the company, but it would be indirectly inviting piracy like crazy.

 

[waylman]

the company could just as easily counter sue the RIAA....I really don't think the RIAA would bother suing

 

[MustISO]

The RIAA ought to start a business like this. This way the people who are going to pirate the CD are at least paying something to do it.

 

[SludgeFactory]

Seeing as they made it illegal, no, I don't think they would leave it alone.

In the past it would have been a more viable business. I think it still could make some money in conjunction with movie rentals if targeted at an older audience, particularly if there was enough interest in being able to rent SACD/DVD-A. Most of their younger potential customers are already "previewing" for free and won't start paying.

 

[DT4K]

Don't the terms on the copyright on CD's prevent this kind of use?
I thought places like Blockbuster and Netflix had to have special licensing agreements with the distributors to be allowed to rent the products.
I thought when you bought the CD it was restricted to your own private use. I don't know that renting CD's would be legal.

 

[kami333]

Originally posted by: MustISO
The RIAA ought to start a business like this. This way the people who are going to pirate the CD are at least paying something to do it.

They do it in Japan. Places like Blockbuster carry CDs for rental, these CDs have a sticker saying that they were approved for rental uses or something like that.

 

[royaldank]

New CD's cost as much or more than DVD's...yet strangely enough they do not cost 50-100 million dollars to produce.

But really, how many CDs go on to gross hundreds of millions (some billions) of dollars around the globe?

A good place to get CDs can be your local library. Mine rents them out for free.