texans20
Weapons of Masturbation
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Texas!
clubs: | Greedy business... Just killed Shoutcast. I've been buying my stuff using stores the legal way, but I think I'm just about to start downloading music. If they can be greedy, so can I. | |
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TKJunkMail
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join:2002-03-03
Avalon, NJ
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| Re: Greedy business... said by Subaru  :I use to listen to shoutcast about 80 hours of a week.. but hardly any now that I have XM and I listen to it at home and in the car. I have Sirius for the car and use them on the internet when not playing my own CD music loaded on the PC.
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Siryak
join:2005-11-26 | Re: Greedy business... *sigh* more RIAA bullshit. Can't wait to see the day they fall.
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Raleigh, NC
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| Sirius makes being stuck in traffic bearable. As for traffic reports in cities where Sirius doesn't cover it, it doesn't matter. All the local stations say is that traffic is a mess, which I already know if I am moving at 2 MPH.
What the RIAA doesn't understand is that if they prevent people from listening to music by killing things like Internet radio, people won't buy music. How is one supposed to find out about new music they might want to buy if they never get to hear it? The 30 second previews on iTunes don't tell you much, either (especially if it is an unfamiliar artist).
There is so much music that can't be heard on local radio stations. Satellite and Internet radio are the best places to hear it.
I know that most of the music I have bought has been as a direct result of something I heard on regular radio, Sirius, or Internet radio.
Of course, if the RIAA succeeds in preventing people from listening to music, they will blame the resulting drop in sales on piracy and just screw things up even more.
I hope that the artists, especially the new ones, can break away from the greedy record labels and RIAA. They are going to get hurt in all of this. | |
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arggh112
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| Darn...i listen to Internet radio on my Treo 700w cell phone via Verizon EVDO...plug it into my car stereo or listen on the go. I've gots my phone(mp3, Internet radio player, camera, video camera, video player) everywhere I go.
Satellite radio doesnt make sense to me. The RIAA can kill Internet radio here but I listen to a lot of out of the states Internet stations.
RIAA=stupid. Kill a business before it truly gets off the ground all for the sake of control and in turn shooting themselves in the foot. | |
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| Re: Greedy business... None of it goes to the artists except in precious few "superstar" situations where the artist managed to write their own contract terms. The vast majority goes directly to the "big five" record companies.
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Kearnstd
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Mullica Hill, NJ | thank god EVE-Radio is outside the US where the RIAA cant get them. but i wonder how will the RIAA get all the personally run shoutcast stations who dont make any money.
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Speedy8
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join:2002-08-22
Alliance, OH
clubs: | Re: Greedy business... The same way they get all the people sharing MP3s, they won't. | |
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| said by texans20 :Just killed Shoutcast. I've been buying my stuff using stores the legal way, but I think I'm just about to start downloading music. If they can be greedy, so can I. I am taking the opposite approach. The more they try to stick it to the little guy, the more I pirate. I can't stand RIAA. I honestly see the RIAA hurting themselves. Consider that most radio stations use automated DJing software to determine the next song they rotate, we'll never hear what we want to on the radio. They make it where you only get to hear 3 out of 21 tracks, and they play them so much you can't enjoy them by the time you decide to get the album. Back in the day, you'd have a ton of variety, and more than 3 songs played by one artist. You knew what the album sounded like before you bought it, and it didn't suck. Now, you have 2 good songs, and 15 pieces of crap, followed by 4 interludes of talking/skits. JUNK!!!
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