http://www.dslreports.com/forum/Re-Collapse-of-the-music-industry-19894714 en Fri, 10 Feb 2012 14:34:24 EDT Fri, 10 Feb 2012 14:34:24 EDT http://www.dslreports.com/forum/Re-Collapse-of-the-music-industry-19899839 --
You can never be too rich, too thin or have too much Bandwidth]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/Re-Collapse-of-the-music-industry-19899839 Tue, 29 Jan 2008 22:32:47 EDT http://www.dslreports.com/forum/Re-Collapse-of-the-music-industry-19898257 said by maxpower:

What's next Mr McGuiness? Should companies that make CD-R's pay the music industry too?
Actually, they already do.

IIRC, if you buy a stack of CD-Rs and the word "music" is anywhere on the packaging, the music industry (more specifically, the RIAA) gets a cut of the purchase price.

If, on the other hand, the CD-Rs you're buying only purport to be suitable for "data backups," (or whatever) the music industry doesn't see a dime.

The whole "media tax"-thing really started when the music industry (again, read RIAA) complained bitterly that Home Taping Is Killing The Music Industry. They lobbied (and got) a "recording tax" put on blank cassette tapes under the asssumption that each and every tape that people bought was, invariably, used to record an album and "steal" music.

Even, of course, if the person making said tape happened to own the album in the first place and merely wanted some way to play it in the car without having to buy yet another copy of something they already paid for.]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/Re-Collapse-of-the-music-industry-19898257 Tue, 29 Jan 2008 18:39:58 EDT http://www.dslreports.com/forum/Re-Collapse-of-the-music-industry-19896516 quote:

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And is it just my monitor, or does it look like Mr McGuinness had a few too many McGuinnesses before that picture was taken?

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He sure does... What's next Mr McGuiness? Should companies that make CD-R's pay the music industry too? Maybe Apple should also, since everyone that listens to music has an IPod. ]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/Re-Collapse-of-the-music-industry-19896516 Tue, 29 Jan 2008 13:49:04 EDT http://www.dslreports.com/forum/Re-Collapse-of-the-music-industry-19896061 http://www.dslreports.com/forum/Re-Collapse-of-the-music-industry-19896061 Tue, 29 Jan 2008 12:48:14 EDT http://www.dslreports.com/forum/Re-Collapse-of-the-music-industry-19894993
Edit.. ooops.. something went horribly wrong, this was supposed to be attached to another post... (2 or 3 comments above.. I am too lazy to rewrite it there....)]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/Re-Collapse-of-the-music-industry-19894993 Tue, 29 Jan 2008 10:08:16 EDT http://www.dslreports.com/forum/Re-Collapse-of-the-music-industry-19894790 said by ptrowski:

That really cracks me up. As far as I can see there has not been a collapse...
Excellent point. The music industry has had a bad run recently, but it has to be someone else's fault right? It's not because the music being produced today sucks, right? ;) And I'm a fan of U2, been since 1982 or so.

And is it just my monitor, or does it look like Mr McGuinness had a few too many McGuinnesses before that picture was taken?
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I'm the Dude. So that's what you call me. You know, that or, uh, His Dudeness, or uh, Duder, or El Duderino if you're not into the whole brevity thing.]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/Re-Collapse-of-the-music-industry-19894790 Tue, 29 Jan 2008 09:32:29 EDT http://www.dslreports.com/forum/Collapse-of-the-music-industry-19894714 http://www.dslreports.com/forum/Collapse-of-the-music-industry-19894714 Tue, 29 Jan 2008 09:18:12 EDT