 BrianDamageWe Are The Hounds From HellPremium
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Rowlett, TX | The real criminals are...... Record company executives, publishing companies, etc.
If one wants to get to the real root of the evil that is mainstream music today, one needs to look at these entities.
1. These companies rip artists off more than file sharing ever will. Musicians today generally only make money off of merchandising, touring, and endorsements. Out of the $16-23 you pay for that CD, the arist gets about 40 cents.
2. The RIAA is a politburo, with only a specialized few benefitting. Sounds like czarism to me.
3. If artists were rightly compensated by record companies, and these companies stopped charging outrageous prices for product, then people would buy and not file-swap as much.
4. Under current law, you do not violate a copyright UNLESS you illegally copy an intellectual work and disseminate for profit. If you download MP3s for your personal use, and don't burn CD copies and sell them, then you have violated no laws.
5. I think the last CD I actually went out and bought was Creed's first album. Since then, I have become a user of file swapping servces....first Napster (the first casualty of the RIAA nazis) and then Morpheus, Limewire, Audigalaxy, and others. I have never sold any songs I have downloaded.
6. As a musician myself, I think that file-swapping services do the opposite of what is described my these mogul types and media people. Napster and others got my music heard by folks who would have probably never heard it otherwise. Some liked my stuff, some not....but at least it got heard.
It could do a lot for others with no other resources. |
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| Exactly, remember the Goo Good Dolls, how badly they got ripped off. They had the best cd hit for their record co EVER and they ended up in debt after their first big release. Talk about BULLSH*T. Like i said, record companies are blood suckers, and i'm not giving them $23 for a 2 cent cd. |
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 Doctor FourMy other vehicle is a TARDISPremium
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Dallas, TX | reply to BrianDamage
By this logic, then, the RIAA and perhaps also the
MPAA ought to be treated as organized crime groups
and prosecuted under the RICO act, which is usually
reserved for mobsters. |
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BrianDamageWe Are The Hounds From HellPremium
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Rowlett, TX | Well, I'm not too sure of that, because they achieve this quite legally at this point, but some attention should be brought to it just the same as questionable accounting practices at Enron, or monopolistic practices engaged in by large corporations (i.e., Microsoft, RBOCs, DeBeers, etc.)
In my opinion though record company execs and publishing company execs are crooks. If you don't believe me then just ask guys like John Fogerty. |
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 JYoungG L 2814
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Sherman Oaks, CA | reply to BrianDamage
Hmmm, I just realized that a DVD of a major movie costs the same as a CD of major band.
Something's not right here..... |
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BrianDamageWe Are The Hounds From HellPremium
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Rowlett, TX | Yeah....things that make you go "mmmmmmmm......." |
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 KrKHeavy Artillery For The Little GuyPremium
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Tulsa, OK
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said by jeffreyamorse:
By this logic, then, the RIAA and perhaps also the
MPAA ought to be treated as organized crime groups
and prosecuted under the RICO act, which is usually
reserved for mobsters.
Sounds good to me... they are guilty of it. |
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BrianDamageWe Are The Hounds From HellPremium
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Rowlett, TX | I doubt anything would become of it.....you hafta remember who we've got running the DOJ. |
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