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Lest you all be confused by the FACTS!!

Moron if they suck so bad then why are people downloading it for free?

It's like saying Kia sucks so bad yet you take the car with you from the dealership.

I might not agree with piracy and I will admit I use to do it but frankly I eventually found alternative and free open source software and as far as content goes I can always find some good music either locally or internationally and since I work as a part time engineer I am able to listen to music without ever having to pay for it because I am the guy recording it.

Sure it might not always be to my taste but frankly I figured what's the point of stealing something that's not worth the effort?

There business model might also be outdated but that's why there are third party companies being the supplier. The music industry should now focus on content.

Of course then there is my other point of view which regards to the RIAA not paying artists so at the same time I kind of support the pirates to make sure the RIAA does goes bankrupt and all artists begin to either create and manage on there own or join indie groups who don't ask such a huge percentage of incoming income.

Music is a hobby, a sport, possibly a way of life and most people forgotten about that and only listen to the money portion of it.

The internet is a huge center for advertising your music and you will get huge amounts of exposure.

All it takes is a geek, some sound engineers, some audio equipment and some kids with talent to make content price it right and go from there.

Everyone gets there fair share without the hassle of DRM and such super high end equipment is not required and once the money for the equipment has all been paid and the business these people created begins to grow while the sound engineers help keep some cash coming in by allowing other local artists to use there equipment for recordings and such.

Of course though nobody has the heart these days to do just things and go against what most people do and that's go to college right after high school.

Life is not a system or some procedure you follow learn to play outside the rules and the most "common" things that are done.

But that's just MHO.
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reply to qworster
I don't think the bad content excuse works with movies as it may with music.

If a CD sucks but has one good song, download the song. But a movie that sucks with one good scene.. ? This doesn't make sense with me, and if you read my other posts I'm usually not on the side of the MPAA. But this is not the kind of excuse I think holds any water.

I don't download music because all current music sucks. I do it because there's NO WAY IN HELL I'm ever hearing artists like Dream Theater or Yngwie Malmsteen on the radio. There's no way without downloading the whole alt.binaries.sounds.ogg group in early 2004 one day on verizon's newsservers that I would have found Alice In Chains' discography.. which I now own on CD, even the ripoff 'nothing safe' CD with one new song on it. Not that it's my place to say, but I think this is why they should stop focusing so much on downloading. Record labels readily admit they can only do good promotion for about 15% of the artists they sign.. and it's not every record label that does good promotion in the first place. The internet lets people like Shadow Gallery be heard.

If I go to my local blockbuster, I won't find the movie dark blue. If I go to several stores in the mall, I won't find the movie dark blue. If I go to the DVD store across the street from my local blockbuster, I won't find dark blue. But guess how long it'll take me to grab it off of usenet? 30 minutes. Yes, in 1/5th the time it would have taken me to go to all of these stores by bus and find out they did not have my movie, I could already have the DVD.

Conveinence is a big part of it.

I understand that I could have called said stores, but this was just to show a point.
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Time to rewrite the DMCA.

Nice job of summing it up Thasp. The content distribution industry has been milking both the end users and content creators for years. They have controlled and limited content availability based on market popularity at the expense of the artists. They restrict fair use and limit content the choice of the consumer. But the internet has changed the rules for distribution. As soon as someone can work out a business model that:
1) takes advantage of the cheap distribution costs provided by the internet,
2) pays the content providers,
3) provides the search and review capabilities that allow users to find content matching their own tastes,
the distribution companies as we know them will become irrelevant. The fight to take down torrent sites is a desperate attempt to keep a sinking ship afloat.
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