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The recording industry is one of the only businesses that will paint its customers as crooks and then try to sell products back to them. Scared to acknowledges that its business model is broken, the industry is content on suing its way back to the profit margins it once experienced.
First it was sue the file sharing sites, ala Napster, which looked like a win for the industry until new decentralized peep-to-peer networks sprung up erasing its victory in court.
Feeling outsmarted, the industries next move was to sue users for downloading copyrighted material. How ridiculous was it when all of a sudden we started hearing news stories of young kids receiving notices, threatening legal actions against them because they downloaded the latest Snoop Dog album (By the way, go get it. It’s fire) To date the RIAA has taken action against some 20,000 suspected file sharers.
Now, in what feels like a last ditch effort to secure compensation for copyright holders, the Recording Industry Association of America is creating plans to hold Internet service providers responsible. (Read article here) There’s even talk about banning certain internet users for file sharing.Is this what the music industry has become– a litigation machine more interested in producing revenue than good music?
I’m torn because on one hand, I appreciate the artist who take the time to create the works of art we call albums.
On the other hand, fuck these greedy record companies. I mean really, any company that would sue an unsuspecting 13-year-old because he downloads some music he likes is low. It’s this greed that makes consumers want to “steal.” Its gotten so crazy that now consumers who have been sued are going right back and suing the file sharing sites for “active inducement.” This suing shit is contagious.
I’m all for compensating the artist, but I won’t let these greedy record companies threaten me.
I hope the industry realizes how desperate it looks.
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"A Mom"
It’s all about greed with some of these record companies. A lot of young children can’t afford to go out and pay the high prices for music. On top of using the artist, some companies complain about people being able to download. I know they need to make their money but the big wheel make theirs. We should be able to download as much music as we want and making it illegal is wrong. Just do like some companies charge a small fee they still make money regardless.
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AL!
Somethign I read yesterday…in regards to some of the music industries top business blunders.
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http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20080312/music_nm/screwups_dc_3
The major labels took top dishonors for driving file-sharing service Napster out of business in 2001, instead of figuring out a way to make money from its tens of millions of users. The downloaders merely scattered to hundreds of other sites, and the industry has been in a tailspin ever since.
“The labels’ campaign to stop their music from being acquired for free across the Internet has been like trying to cork a hurricane — upward of a billion files are swapped every month on peer-to-peer networks,” Blender said in the report, which appears in its newly published April issue.
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Disciple
Damn say it ain’t so, is this what the record companies are coming to, and it’s all for the mighty $$$. These record companies don’t care about nothing but they money like ( bitch betta have my money ) I don’t care if you 13 yrs old pay up. I’m not shocked about their actions. These CEO’s of these record companies probably sold their souls for their $ucce$$.
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"a mom"
I call it Pimpin.
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boosy
the labels are stupid….i’m sitting here in spain and people actually buy the music.. and they also download which is a double quandary….yea the industry fucked up with napster
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Ronnie B.troubl
suing customers is stupid they need to figure out a way to make money off of it the technology is already out there we cant go back in time
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