allthumbs Posted June 26, 2003 Share Posted June 26, 2003 click Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ned_Flanders Posted June 26, 2003 Share Posted June 26, 2003 thats pretty f'd up. i must have over 300 burned cd's Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
eternalX Posted June 26, 2003 Share Posted June 26, 2003 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. Â Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr._Natural Posted June 26, 2003 Share Posted June 26, 2003 sounds like its time to install a firewall. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
toptimmy Posted June 26, 2003 Share Posted June 26, 2003 Im done with the music industry.Remember the money made from every cd you now buy could be used to sue you. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JoshK Posted June 26, 2003 Share Posted June 26, 2003 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. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thelawgoddess Posted June 26, 2003 Share Posted June 26, 2003 i thought this post was actually going to be about "shit." go figure! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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gapertimmy Posted June 26, 2003 Share Posted June 26, 2003 thelawgoddess said: i thought this post was actually going to be about "shit." go figure! Â thats only when i start the thread Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
allthumbs Posted June 26, 2003 Author Share Posted June 26, 2003 thelawgoddess said: i thought this post was actually going to be about "shit." go figure! I'll talk about shit with ya TLG Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JoshK Posted June 26, 2003 Share Posted June 26, 2003 This quote is particularly telling: Â 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. Â "It doesn't take too many tickets to get everybody to obey the speed limit," Prestwood said. Â Â 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. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
catbirdseat Posted June 26, 2003 Share Posted June 26, 2003 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. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
allthumbs Posted June 26, 2003 Author Share Posted June 26, 2003 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. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
eternalX Posted June 26, 2003 Share Posted June 26, 2003 on that topic Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JoshK Posted June 26, 2003 Share Posted June 26, 2003 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. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
toptimmy Posted June 26, 2003 Share Posted June 26, 2003 The recoding industry was also afraid of cassette tapes.Why dont the artist negotiate better contracts? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
toptimmy Posted June 26, 2003 Share Posted June 26, 2003 That wont work Josh it makes too much sense. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
catbirdseat Posted June 26, 2003 Share Posted June 26, 2003 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. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
E-rock Posted June 26, 2003 Share Posted June 26, 2003 Buy records and CD's from independent labels: Â 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 Â 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. Â 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. Â My Two cents. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ursa_Eagle Posted June 26, 2003 Share Posted June 26, 2003 if you buy CD's at concerts, my understanding is that the artist gets more of the money that way. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JoshK Posted June 26, 2003 Share Posted June 26, 2003 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. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ursa_Eagle Posted June 26, 2003 Share Posted June 26, 2003 blank CD's too?!?!?! even if I'm backing up my email onto them?! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JoshK Posted June 27, 2003 Share Posted June 27, 2003 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. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hakioawa Posted June 27, 2003 Share Posted June 27, 2003 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. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paul_detrick Posted June 27, 2003 Share Posted June 27, 2003 I would'nt shit you, your my favrite turd. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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