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Interesting article on MP3 sharing, RIAA, etc.

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emh:
Click here for the article

3eyes:
The music industry shot itself in the foot and is now claiming the fans did it to them.

billy_gates:

quote:Originally posted by 3eyes:
The music industry shot itself in the foot and is now claiming the fans did it to them.
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I don't see how this article makes it somehow OK to steal music.  All it says is that people want to buy single songs instead of whole albums.  Cough iTune cough BuyMusic.com.  The record industry shot themselves in the foot, but that doesn't make it OK to steal music.  Thats like saying My neighbor shot himself in the foot, literally.  He's an artist, sells art for a living.  I'm gonna go into his computer and "share" his scanned in JPEG's with the world.  Doesn't sound like a cool thing to do does it?

3eyes:

quote:Originally posted by jeffberg: Mac Capitalist:


I don't see how this article makes it somehow OK to steal music.  All it says is that people want to buy single songs instead of whole albums.  Cough iTune cough BuyMusic.com.  The record industry shot themselves in the foot, but that doesn't make it OK to steal music.  Thats like saying My neighbor shot himself in the foot, literally.  He's an artist, sells art for a living.  I'm gonna go into his computer and "share" his scanned in JPEG's with the world.  Doesn't sound like a cool thing to do does it?
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I was referring to the slump in sales. They blame the slump on downloading but the fact is it began when they stopped selling singles.

Not that I really care; almost all of the artists I like are dead. I already have most all of the songs I'll ever listen to unless Hendrix should come back from the dead.

And I also don't care any more about the record companies than I do M$.They're just as bad; if you read the article, you see the artists saying that themselves. I will never support them if I can help it.

[ August 05, 2003: Message edited by: 3eyes ]

emh:

quote:
cough BuyMusic.com

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*cough*only works with Windows Media Player*cough*website only works with Internet Explorer*cough*WMA*cough*

The point the article was getting at was that the public wants to be able to buy singles.

I have a feeling you didn't read the whole article, because it did mention iTunes and it's huge success, citing that this was exactly what people wanted.

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