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 RickPremium,MVM
join:2001-02-06
Waterbury, CT | reply to CitizenX9
Re: I will ALWAYS rip you off Mr. Michael Greene said by CitizenX:
You know why people rip music off the internet? Because they charge $23 a cd. Stop RIPPING US OFF and we'll stop RIPPING YOU OFF. I am proud of my 2,300 mp3s and will continue to STEAL from the music industry.
My personal feeling is that I couldn't disagree with you more. I liken what's going on to the doors of a Dept Store
being left open and certain members of the public feeling
it's right to simply walk in and raid the place.
And, then looking for their own justification in their own
minds to say that was Ok.
I download songs. But I've also bought hundreds of their
albums, CD's and cassettes over the years. And, I've more than paid my price of admission in support of the musicians
with their concerts and merchandise.
But, with all that said, I don't think it matters one bit
what I think, or anyone thinks because it's happening anyway. And, this industry is in trouble the way it stands now. That's all that really matters. The industry for all
their crying also bears part of the responsibility.
They failed to recognize this new distribution system and
the impact it would have on them early on. And, even when they did recognize it, they took the wrong approach.
They got heavy handed and mean...and alienated many people
against them who would then use that as justification
for what is now occuring.
I think very early on they could have resolved this by
realizing that it was going to happen anyway, and they needed to get on board. People love the convenience of being able to Download songs. And, they don't want to
buy entire albums for just one or two songs on it and pay
those prices. If they had worked with Napster, or even started their own service early on that provided a wide
selection, they could EASILY have charged a quarter to fifty cents a song and made their service the most popular
and addressed many of these problems. I would have been happy to pay it. And many others would have too.
It would have passed savings along to consumers and saved
them money as well in the form of an inexpensive distribution system.
For all the industries whining about starving musicians
and such..they fail to mention one thing. How this medium can give a wide audience to musicians at NO COST, at a price that is now paid to the middle man record industry.
Musicians and others who will learn how to capitalize off of that are going to be the success stories of the next
decade. That exposure now costs them a huge amount of money
in the form of payments to the labels and the distribution
system currently in place. This will let them eliminate
a great deal of that..pass along the savings to consumers
and even benefit more themselves.
So, I really don't buy the argument that it's really the musicians themselves who have to suffer. It's the middlemen who need to worry.
I also think they fail to mention that if music was priced this way, a lot more people would be buying songs they might not have in the past. There's plenty of old songs out there that I have no intention of buying the album,
but would gladly pay that price for the individual song.
They are sales that would never have happened anyway that could be realized this way.
Hopefully, the industry quickly finds a way to adapt.
I think their only chance of success is to quickly
create a service where they all participate in it..
and where music is priced individually at a reasonable
25-50cents a song.
And then, it's up to all of us to support that. Recognize
we're getting a very fair value for the service.
Because if we don't do that and refuse to pay that price,
one can only wonder what will happen overall to the whole
industry. What would the last 20-30 years have looked like?
I think there would have been a whole lot less of the talent we saw and the things we've enjoyed.
There is a common ground here. The industry needs to call off their lawyers, and look for it.
And, consumers need to realize that when it's delivered,
they need to support that, and pay for the value that's being delivered.
Or, there just might be a whole lot less music to listen to in a few years. | |
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and i forgot to include the artists making the material, but then again, the people who post here mostly will hate them unless they waive their rights to money, and work at fast food stores living on mac and cheese while their "fans" enjoy the benefits of .50$ cd's.
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No Instead I guess I will be eating the mac & cheese while they enjoy the fast cars and other things!
By the way, who do you work for? | |
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