Rescrewing the consumer again or nothing for something
I guess it is time to re-screw the consumer again. The first screwing by the music industry was when the Compact Disc was introduced. There was such a demand for Compact Discs by consumers trying to replace their record collections, that the Record/CD dealers added a $4.00 dealer premium on CDs. By 1984 the performers sued the record labels to force compensation based on the actual sale price of the CD rather than the MSRP. The record companies maximum price was to be $12.98 for CDs. That price quickly ballooned to $16.98. The next screwing was the fee levied on music quality cassettes and CD ROMS licensed to record music on CD Recorders. I was annoyed because I paid the fee for music quality cassettes even if I did not use the cassette for recording copyrighted music. The way the record labels want screw the broadband customers again, is to ask them to shell out another Five to Ten Dollars per month even if they do not they copy music from P2P downloads. Better if the consumer were able to purchase a USB Dongle to access their accounts and then pay a monthly fee for unlimited downloads without copy protection. The dongle would act as a way to tie the customer to their account.
I guess it is time to re-screw the consumer again. The first screwing by the music industry was when the Compact Disc was introduced. There was such a demand for Compact Discs by consumers trying to replace their record collections, that the Record/CD dealers added a $4.00 dealer premium on CDs. By 1984 the performers sued the record labels to force compensation based on the actual sale price of the CD rather than the MSRP. The record companies maximum price was to be $12.98 for CDs. That price quickly ballooned to $16.98. The next screwing was the fee levied on music quality cassettes and CD ROMS licensed to record music on CD Recorders. I was annoyed because I paid the fee for music quality cassettes even if I did not use the cassette for recording copyrighted music. The way the record labels want screw the broadband customers again, is to ask them to shell out another Five to Ten Dollars per month even if they do not they copy music from P2P downloads. Better if the consumer were able to purchase a USB Dongle to access their accounts and then pay a monthly fee for unlimited downloads without copy protection. The dongle would act as a way to tie the customer to their account.
And let's not forget that the RIAA bribed (lobbied) Congress to make renting CDs a federal crime! Years back, there was a CD rental store near me that also sold music grade cassettes. They were put out of business by the RIAA. To add insult to injury, we pay about a 30 cent levy on EVERY music CD that goes straight to the RIAA..
Got it? Levy the cassettes (because there MIGHT be music recorded on them) and then make the reasonably priced method of GETTING the music to record on the levied cassettes illegal.
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I guess it is time to re-screw the consumer again. The first screwing by the music industry was when the Compact Disc was introduced. There was such a demand for Compact Discs by consumers trying to replace their record collections, that the Record/CD dealers added a $4.00 dealer premium on CDs. By 1984 the performers sued the record labels to force compensation based on the actual sale price of the CD rather than the MSRP. The record companies maximum price was to be $12.98 for CDs. That price quickly ballooned to $16.98. The next screwing was the fee levied on music quality cassettes and CD ROMS licensed to record music on CD Recorders. I was annoyed because I paid the fee for music quality cassettes even if I did not use the cassette for recording copyrighted music. The way the record labels want screw the broadband customers again, is to ask them to shell out another Five to Ten Dollars per month even if they do not they copy music from P2P downloads. Better if the consumer were able to purchase a USB Dongle to access their accounts and then pay a monthly fee for unlimited downloads without copy protection. The dongle would act as a way to tie the customer to their account.