 dslwanterIt's comingPremium
join:2002-12-16
Niles, OH
 ·AT&T Midwest
| I don't get it. If the record companies are suppose to be lowering the price of CDs, then why are they going all out about people downloading? If you are not selling a product, the price will go up. If they're losing all this money to file swappers, then why would the prices go down? Wouldn't you have to raise the prices if you're losing money? If the service, like Kazaa and WinMX is available to a user for free, shouldn't the makers of the software be sued for distributing the software? Lets put it this way, some 10 year old kid is downloading music, he or she doesn't know it's illegal, and their parents don't even know they are doing it, how are you going to sue a 10-year old kid? If anything they should sue the services and not the people because if you sue one person, the 80,000,000 other people are still doing it, the service is still up, you caused little or no damage to the downloading music world.
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They lowered the prices so more people buy the cds.
This way the RIAA can say, "see, we are canning people for illegally downloading songs, and our sales are increasing." This way it appears that by them stopping illegal downloads, sales are increasing. I sure ain't going to spend $18 on a cd, but if the cd is $10 I might. The RIAA is going to use this to try to prove their "false" point that illegal downloads are hurting sales. |
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 Da22inBuck Fush
join:2002-06-10
Charlotte, NC | said by riaasux:
....The RIAA is going to use this to try to prove their "false" point that illegal downloads are hurting sales.
The terms "illegal downloads", "illegal downloading" are being thrown around everywhere these days. However, downloading is NOT illegal. I can download anything I want without worry. The issue that most seem to miss is that it's the sharing and distribution of copyrighted files which has spurned this RIAA debacle. Only people that shared files with some RIAA-affiliated flunky are being subpeonaed. Also, only people on non-RIAA member Internet services...NO AOL users, NO RoadRunner users (Time-Warner) are being subpeonaed or otherwise getting harrassed. NO KazaaLite users getting attention either (thanks to the several anti-RIAA features built in).
Give 'em hell Sharman! And keep your spyware-infested, useless-bells-and-whistles-having software. Everyone being subpeonaed uses/used it...probably with no firewall even.
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 devrandomI got a pot, full of random stuff herePremium
join:2003-06-28 | reply to xrobertcmx
The price lowering tactics are still really just bull, because the prices aren't low enough to stop the neo-10 year old tech hacker "wannabe" from downloading music.
Of course, they're just trying to attack people's claims.
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The proof is in the pudding. I won't believe any claims of lower prices until I actually see some real changes in the current price structures in the stores. Anything less is vaporware.
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