RIAA in 2006

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http://www.theregister.co.uk/2005/12/31/riaa_2005_piracy/page2.html

Thoughts on this? Gonna be another banner year for lawsuits according to this article. Happy downloading! :cheers

[ECA]

They are throwing STONES.
Trying to figure out WHY they cant make better sales..
And it comes down to PRICE.
Why in the world would you pay $30 for an album that was released 10 years ago. Its ALL profit to them.

[Ioman]

Good article. I am not surprised. The RIAA is really like a spoiled child that thinks they do not do anything wrong. I expect to see the RIAA's stance being adopted by movie studios as movies start to hit the web.

[nightowl]

They are throwing STONES.
Trying to figure out WHY they cant make better sales..
And it comes down to PRICE.
Why in the world would you pay $30 for an album that was released 10 years ago. Its ALL profit to them.

One way to increase their sales is to release good music. What they are putting out nowadays is mostly crap. On Average In the last 5 years I may buy 5 CDs a year. And thats on a good year.

[ECA]

YEP,
they cator to the 16 year olds, THINKING they have the disposible cash, from mommy and daddy.
But mommy and daddy are learning that its CHEAPER to get the net.
But whose the winner?
The SLOW monotinous CORPs, that cant change with the times, and innovation is a obtouse idea..
Or the person who paid $15,000 for 15,000 recordings and a contract to BUY MORE at that price, for distribution?? WHAT a start..
And the corps are banging there heads on the WALL...Complaining, anyway they CAN, that THEY should be making this money. When all they needed to do, was/is DROP the price of an album to $10...

Remember the OLD record and tape places?? They werent, A HOLE IN THE WALL, places...they were big. The current ones arent as big as MY HOUSE(24'x24') and they sell NINTENDO/Xbox/PSP along with it.

There used to be 20? different Labels/companies?? And now there are 3?? And they control EVERYTHING that comes into this country..
And those 20 labels were ALWAYS looking for NEW persons...and now(not counting country) There ISNT that many, and the selection SUCKS.. Even the teens I know here, Like NPR around here...Its a CHANGE.

[nightowl]

Yea, The entertainment industry are just a bunch of sleeze bags. They make the rules, they control the charts. Alot of good bands are struggling to make it big without much success. Except for the bands with the big names and we know who they are.

I'm glad I'm not a 16 year old growing up being pushed into listening all this crap nowadays. Peer Pressure was bad enough when I was 16. But at least the music we were told was cool was half way Cool. At least most of it was. There were a few exceptions.......Jim omg:

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Yea, The entertainment industry are just a bunch of sleeze bags. They make the rules, they control the charts. Alot of good bands are struggling to make it big without much success. Except for the bands with the big names and we know who they are.

I'm glad I'm not a 16 year old growing up being pushed into listening all this crap nowadays. Peer Pressure was bad enough when I was 16. But at least the music we were told was cool was half way Cool. At least most of it was. There were a few exceptions.......Jim omg:


What pisses me off is that the music industry had knowledge of the technology both for music compression (i.e MP3 etc) and for P2P. They dismissed it. Now it is biting them on the ass. This is much the same thing that caught Microsoft by surprise in the Browser Wars. The RIAA claims downloading is hurting sales. I am sure that some of the sales slump is due to downloading but not all. Seems like there are a couple of factors at play here:

1) People are tired of paying high prices for old technology. The price for cd's is still the same as it was in 1983.
2) There are tons of generic crap bands that people are not enthused about that are being pushed. Yes I know there are some great bands but I for one am having trouble distinguishing matchbox 20 vs hawthorne heights or whatever. Why pay 20 bucks for a new cd for one or two songs you like and the other 10-14 songs going to waste?
3) Why is the RIAA going after the consumers who are going to buy the product? I don't see them going after Sony/HP/Ricoh/Plextor/etc. for cd-rw/dvd players. Or Nero for the cd copy software. Yes I know they went after DVDcopy but that is one company. The reason it seems that the RIAA is targetting the consumer is twofold: A) The consumer cannot afford the same lawyer and cannot compete on the legal front and B) they are setting the legal precedent to scare others. Once again they are trying to railroad people down the same path rather than acknowledging the fact that technology is leaving the music industry behind.

One interesting note is patronage.net (sp?) That was started by a musician that enabled so people could get songs as soon as they were done by the musicians and engineered. Just one alternative I heard of. Anyway DRM nowadays is getting harder and harder to maneuver. It seems like a really odd admixture of old laws trying to be crammed into a new world. Once again lawmakers don't understand the technology so multi-nationals are backing the RIAA and playing to do this. Really frustrating for the average person.

Sorry for the rant and thanks for reading this. :cheers

Just and addendum to the post. I wanted to add a couple of links to add fuel to the fire:

http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20051226-5840.html
http://www.musiccdsettlement.com/english/default.htm
http://go.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=technologyNews&storyID=10683355&src=rss/technologyNews
http://www.usatoday.com/life/music/news/2002-09-30-cd-settlement_x.htm
http://www.ftc.gov/opa/2000/05/cdpres.htm
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2003/07/29/labels_charged_with_pricefixing_again/
http://ag.state.nv.us/agpress/2002/02_0930b.pdf
http://urbanlegends.about.com/library/bl-cd-settlement.htm
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/2289224.stm
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=5070000
http://stereophile.com/news/10744/
http://www.macobserver.com/article/2002/10/01.5.shtml
http://www.cdrlabs.com/phpBB/viewtopic.php?t=20956
http://www.codewolf.com/story/article_1015935.html
http://www.techliberation.com/archives/025915.php

Heh well there ya go. Yes I am weird, I just want to make my point :P :cheers

[ECA]

That AINT no rant:

It is LAW, that you have the RIGHT to backup your media.
Sony, isnt 1 company..its about 6.

Sony MUSIC, is part of the RIAA, and the biggest complainer.

CPST of makeing a CD in BATCH of 100,000+ should be about $1-3 EACH with shipping and all the rest, not counting advert. If they are paying MORE, they are STUPID. Bunch of RICH guys making money and dont CARE.

There is NO selection, the stores are to SMALL to even have one, and the PRICE is stupid.
Anything over 7 years old is PURE profit.

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[ECA]

IT WONT HAPPEN...
Its a private company, that only follows the LAW.. you cant change that.