Are You Shitting Me?

[allthumbs]

click

[Ned_Flanders]

thats pretty f'd up. i must have over 300 burned cd's

[eternalX]

It's about time to print up a page with all the record companies that pay the RIAA and use it every time you go into a record store so you know what NOT to buy.

 

[Mr._Natural]

sounds like its time to install a firewall.

[toptimmy]

Im done with the music industry.Remember the money made from

every cd you now buy could be used to sue you.

[JoshK]

The best response to this is for *everybody* to offer as much music as possible. Tehy can't afford the legal fees to sue everybody.

[thelawgoddess]

i thought this post was actually going to be about "shit." go figure!

[toptimmy]

[gapertimmy]

thelawgoddess said:

i thought this post was actually going to be about "shit." go figure!

 

thats only when i start the thread

[allthumbs]

thelawgoddess said:

i thought this post was actually going to be about "shit." go figure!

I'll talk about shit with ya TLG

[JoshK]

This quote is particularly telling:

 

Country songwriter Hugh Prestwood, who has worked with performers such as Randy Travis, Trisha Yearwood and Jimmy Buffett, likened the RIAA's effort to a roadside police officer on a busy highway.

 

"It doesn't take too many tickets to get everybody to obey the speed limit," Prestwood said.

 

 

Umm...dipshit...how many people do you know that speed? Oh that's right...everybody. You can't patrol every single street and every time, so people will still take their chances and for the same reason the cops can't afford to patrol every street the record nazis can't afford to sue everybody.

[catbirdseat]

I think that everybody would like to see artists compensated for their work. Otherwise, what incentive do they have for recoding cd's? People justify copyright violations on the basis that relatively little of the money they pay for a CD goes to the artist. Most of it goes to fat cat record company executives and their shareholders. Those guys are starting to hurt because piracy is starting to significantly cut into record sales. I don't know what the solution is, but don't expect to continue to get your entire recording collection for free anymore. It isn't fair to the artists.

[allthumbs]

catbirdseat said:

I think that everybody would like to see artists compensated for their work. Otherwise, what incentive do they have for recoding cd's? People justify copyright violations on the basis that relatively little of the money they pay for a CD goes to the artist. Most of it goes to fat cat record company executives and their shareholders. Those guys are starting to hurt because piracy is starting to significantly cut into record sales. I don't know what the solution is, but don't expect to continue to get your entire recording collection for free anymore. It isn't fair to the artists.

as much as I hate to admit it, I agree with Catbird.

[eternalX]

on that topic

[JoshK]

I agree that the artists should be compensated, but the way tyhe RIAA is going about this is ridiculous. If somebody came up with a system to get the artists paid for their work and the record companies cut out of the deal altogether, adn the RIAA disbanded, they'd make a lot of friends.

[toptimmy]

The recoding industry was also afraid of cassette tapes.Why dont the artist negotiate better contracts?

[toptimmy]

That wont work Josh it makes too much sense.

[catbirdseat]

toptimmy said:

The recoding industry was also afraid of cassette tapes.Why dont the artist negotiate better contracts?

Short answer: Consolidation. The record companies have reached a state of oligarchy, similar to what the domestic automakers had before foreign imports made inroads. They can do what they want.

[E-rock]

Buy records and CD's from independent labels:

 

Here's why:

(1) More of your money goes to the musician(s).

(2) Mainstream music merely coopts what's happening in the underground.

(3) Retail price of indy label CD's and Records is significantly less (9-12 dollars instead of 16-18 dollars)

(4) Indy labels AREN'T SUING ANYONE

(5) Indy musicians are not rich

(6) Indy Rock ROCKS

 

Burn all the fucking rest and fuck Sony, Geffen, Epic, Capitol, Time-Warner. Let them make their money off the teenie boppers and the cube-farm suburbanites like they always have.

 

I burnt my copy of the White Album, Paul McCartney makes enough money off of SHITTY music to keep making it off of John Lennon and George Harrison.

 

My Two cents.

[Ursa_Eagle]

if you buy CD's at concerts, my understanding is that the artist gets more of the money that way.

[JoshK]

Hopefully you all realize that for every single blank tape, CD, etc. you purchase, the RIAA also gets a cut. Unbelievable but true...they are fucking nazis and need to be destroyed.

[Ursa_Eagle]

blank CD's too?!?!?! even if I'm backing up my email onto them?!

[JoshK]

yup, i'm pretty sure it's CDs as well. I *know* it's tape. Somehow they convinced (aka paid) our government enought to convince them that since these mediums *could* be used to store music, that they should get a cut of it. assholes.

[hakioawa]

Nope that's not exaclty true. CD-ROMs you buy for your computer RIAA doesn't get jack for. But if you bought one of those expensive CD copying machines (put out by Sony, JVC) you have to buy special disks for. Then you pay the RIAA tax.

[Paul_detrick]

I would'nt shit you, your my favrite turd.