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 viperpa33sWhy Me?Premium
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Bradenton, FL | Voice your complaints with your wallet The problem I see here is, people buy the product but still complain about it thinking that the company will change. Most times a company will not change unless the consumer changes there buying habits. If you don't like the new Copyright laws, show your complaints and anger with your wallet.
It's really simple economics. If people stop buying a companies product because of one reason or another, The company will have to change because they will lose money and may go out of business. Companies have to sell products that people will like and buy or else they fail. Right now the music company has a avenue to complain about which is P2P. If P2P was gone all together, then the music companies would have no one else to blame except themselves.
Another point to talk about. I always here people say that the musicians aren't getting the money they deserve, that the music companies are cheating them. If the musicians were so worried about it, you would hear a lot more of them speaking out. If a musician don't like a contract, you don't sign it. If you don't like a current contract you don't resign. The whole point of signing with a big record company is to get your name recognized. For popular musicians they get the big sign on bonus. Then a musician makes the bulk of there money from concerts and memorabilia. I use to hear complaints about how much a CD costs and how 1 or 2 songs on a CD are good songs. Do you think musicians care about that? Musicians thinks or there songs on a CD are good songs whether you think so or not.
People are hooked to music just like they are hooked to movies and the record companies knows this. They know no matter how much people complain, they will still listen and buy the music. They know people will do anything to listen to there favorite musician or band. The record companies could charge $50 for a CD and there would be people who would pay it. They would complain about it but they would still pay it. It amounts to stop listening to your favorite band or going broke doing it.
Don't get me wrong, I don't agree with all the restrictions placed on music and movies. I think the restrictions are anti consumer. If I buy music I should be able to transfer the music from one device to another without having to buy the same song again. I should be able to make backups of the music I buy so in case something happens I don't have to spend a boat load of money to purchase the music again. What happens if I buy music of a musician and I can't buy the musicians music again because the musicians music is out of print?
The way I voice my distrust is through my wallet. I will listen to the music on the radio rather than buy the music. The record companies don't make money when people listen to the radio, they make there money when you buy the music. The radio is like one big music advertisement that gets you to buy the music. I currently have 813 music CD's, so it's not like I never purchased them. The money I payed for all that music I could put towards a down payment on a new car or a house. | |
4 edits | said by viperpa33s:The record companies don't make money when people listen to the radio, they make there money when you buy the music. The radio is like one big music advertisement that gets you to buy the music. I currently have 813 music CD's, so it's not like I never purchased them. The money I payed for all that music I could put towards a down payment on a new car or a house. Actually, here in the states they have what is called HD Radio. Its digitally broadcast for free at or near CD quality, and most HD Radio stations are also commercial free. The caveat being that we can record the songs broadcast on HD Radio to mp3 using this software with a specific HD Radio receiver and interface to a PC.
You obtain a much better quality mp3 file than you would if you had purchased it from Itunes. The real kicker is that recording any radio broadcast that uses US public airwaves is completely legal for personal use, your rights are protected by laws created before digital radio broadcasts were even possible. It's something that the RIAA would rather you not know about since they shot themselves in the foot due to their own greed on this one.
I dont need to spend my hours trying to locate songs to download, I just click a button in the morning to record my favorite channel, and when I check back that evening I have hundreds of new high quality mp3 songs recorded for that day to choose from. I have recorded "thousands" of mp3's now and all of them were free. Maybe you Canada guys should just move?  | | |
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