| Music Industry - Bite Me If they force Apple to raise the price for songs on iTunes, I'm done with supporting the music industry and encouraging friends to acquire music legally - I'll jump back onto the P2P bandwagon in a second. I suspect others will as well.
The music industry just keeps digging itself into an ever deepening hole.
With the invasive copyright protection included on some audio CDs, such as those by The Dave Matthews Band and Foo Fighters, I am forced to download the songs from online music stores if I wish to obtain the music legally and avoid their buggy copy protection scheme. In doing so, they pay NO costs whatsoever for the music I just downloaded - no production costs for the CD, booklet, etc - and they make nearly 70% of the 99 cents I pay - and now they want to raise the prices? I've been encouraging friends/family to dump illegal P2P music swapping and use an online store such as iTunes, but if this continues, the music industry can just bite my ass. Apple doesn't have to worry about lost revenue - I'm still going to buy an iPod - the only difference is that I'll be filling it with music from a P2P service - free of DRM and absurd restrictions.
HOW CAN ANY ORGANIZATION BE SO IGNORANT?
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 mrchrisOut and aroundPremium
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North Babylon, NY | Besides that, they NEED to add less popular music from labels from Spinefarm, Nuclear Blast and other European labels, not just the crap we see in America. |
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 EdibleTargetReal Gamers Dont Use Consoles
join:2004-12-02
Lowell, MA | reply to gattaca
well, if you already own the CDs, i believe it is legal for you to download it off P2P, youre just not allowed to share it.
The funniest part about the Foo Fighters CD in particular, its got all sorts of DRM crap, but it was on the internet 3 weeks before it came out. |
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 TsumePremium
join:2004-02-23
Johnson City, TN
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Have the **AA prove that the people you were sharing it to DIDN'T own it.
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Very well said njorge. One person can spread the word of obtaining illegal music to thousands in mere seconds.
In case anybody does not remember pirating music and making copies of CDs back in 2001 was very popular and it will come back.
I remember people in my school that sold copies of CDs for $3.
It will come back. Just because you lower the amount of piracy doesn't mean its gone. It can easily rise again under stupid rules and pricing like these.
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