openbox9
join:2004-01-26
Alexandria, VA
kudos:2 | reply to Noah Vail
Re: Now hes an a real american... Four URLs, two stories. Is the DOJ still investigating the alleged price fixing for downloaded music? The radio broadcasters settled.said by Noah Vail:But about some of 8yo price fixing convictions That would be the one I referred to "over a decade ago". I guess I was off by a couple of years.said by Noah Vail:How much money did BigMusic collect, FROM THIS PRACTICE ALONE, that they weren't entitled to? I'd argue $0 because they charged what the market would bear and consumers continued to purchase. But the FTC believed it could be as much as $480M.said by Noah Vail:Ah. It's all the artists fault. Would you mind naming a single artist who would concur with that opinion? Perhaps every single one who freely chose to sign the contract with the terms that it had? And about the LOI issue, I don't know about everyone else, but my mother taught to read everything before I sign anything. I realize that in your world, big corporations are always wrong, but it's a free market. So long as greed grasps artists and they're willing to sign away essentially all of their rights to their works and the market is willing to bear ever increasing costs of purchasing music for their enjoyment, I don't see the blame being placed anywhere else. |
