Vic
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The RIAA is nowhere as big as you might think. Their sales for last year were down to $14 billion last year compared to their all-time high of $16 billion in '99. All things considered, it's easy to see that the poor economy is largely responsible, NOT file-sharing. In fact, the RIAA's all-time sales record occurred during the early peak of Napster's popularity.
The problem here is that the RIAA wants to be able to have a sales model like the MPAA. They want to be able to make a crappy product, hype it like hell, and then have everyone celebrate and buy it the day it comes out. The problem is that a new album is not like a night at the theater. They have to live with the fact that people want good music, created by talented artists who have a lot of say about their own content, and people want to be able to listen to samples of the music before they buy it. The RIAA felt that electronic music files over the internet were a threat to their desired business model, even if they were the ones selling them.
Remember 10 or so years ago when your geek friends told you that someday you'd be able to listen to any song you wanted to or any movie you wanted to at any time you wanted to? Having grown up in the '70s with AM radio and a 19" black and white TV with 4 channels (plus PBS), I had looked forward to that someday all my life. Well, "that someday" was 3 years ago, but some asshole business execs decided to make it illegal because they wouldn't be able to control it the way they wanted to.
Thank you, RIAA/MPAA :|
genius idea. My dad was pissed off at a bank company one year, so he took out all the money from that bank, but kept 10 cents in. The bank still sends him an account statement every once in a while telling him that he has a dime in the bank. It's funny because it takes more than that just to mail off the letter. If something tricky like what you stated could be done a huge scale, it could actually make a difference.
Thanks for the info Vic. I hope they get their acts straight and attempt to solve this issue from a different angle. Someone mentioned earlier though, they might already be in too deep.
The RIAA makes more money from these fines than they do with cd sales so I guess this is a better business strategy.
yukichigai
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Just so you know, most of the movie industry has seen the writing on the wall. Looks like the MPAA wasn't able to hold it back as well as the RIAA did.
neutralizer
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If I do have mp3s on my computer as backup and I don't have kazaa, RIAA can't do anything, right?
yukichigai
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As of yet they haven't started actively hacking people's computers, so while they could theoretically do something they aren't going to.
RIAA should die twenty-two thousand horrible painful agonizing deaths. I hate them with a passion. Not because they want to protect their assets, but becasue they're being boneheaded pricks about it. Death to them all. Let the artists start a recording association.
what i dont understand is that you can be fined anywhere from $750 to $15,000 per song you have on your computer. shouldn't a judge overturn this decision? it seems absurd to me that the music industry could justify that they're losing that much revenue PER SONG.
They're not. And they're raping my wallet every time I buy a sh|tty album just to find that one good song that I like. Maybe I should sue them?
The last time I used Kazaa was back when they were offering a Linux client, shortly after they shut out Morpheus. Am I fairly safe?
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