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How's this idea?
hm_murdock:
NEVER TREAT YOUR CUSTOMER LIKE THE ENEMY
larn abuot teh biznuss, yuo giye!!!!11111llololololololol
flap:
So if a bank's customer robs them, they should just be let off? I don't understand how you can view illegal downloading as being stealing but then not agree with people being prosecuted. And why are you convinced that people who download also buy cds?
hm_murdock:
All people are "customers" unless you have a physical retail location. If you're a large company with products to sell, then everybody is a customer.
The simple fact is I'd like to see the RIAA fail and be torn asunder. As a musician, I see them as the absolute enemy to me and my dream. They would love nothing more than to steal my work, sell it as their own, and pay me a pittance in return. The RIAA is anti-music.
I'm not anti-business, but the RIAA is against me and my ambition, therefore, their demise is favorable. I would watch in giddy ecstasy as they fell into ruin, the false pretences torn down, and the truth of their villainy and malice exposed.
In the event that nobody's noticed, I'm an arrogant, rude, hate-filled and spiteful asshole who loves to see those who stand in my way FAIL.
The failure of others is the easiest, quickest, and most assured way to the top.
edit: I have no need to explain myself to the likes of you.
[ March 02, 2004: Message edited by: jimmyjames.sytes.net ]
flap:
But the RIAA are suing the fans, not the musicians. Assuming that you think control and copy-restriction are "protecting" the artists, then aren't the RIAA acting in their interests by prosecuting those who "steal" from them?
hm_murdock:
You have no capacity for logic. Go back to school and ask them to teach you about "problem solving", and "how to not be a dipshit".
The point is that the RIAA's ideas go beyond making profit. Their actions show that they view their own existance as the end.
Let me explain it for you, shall I? No objections? Good.
Now, business is, simply put, methods by which you acquire profit. You may produce your own goods, or provide your own service, but when dealing with the payment, and the way you go about finding customers, and dealing with them is business.
The end result is that you have something that you didn't have before.
Do you know what that is?
Money.
The methods by which you got it including, providing a good or service, and carrying out a transaction (you perform the service, or deliver the good, in exchange for payment) are business.
The RIAA, however, obviously views business as the END, and not the MEANS by which profit is achieved. Musicians be damned, customers be damned, WE ARE BUSINESS, RESISTANCE IS FUTILE.
They've made claims before about how they'll stop selling music. I find that hilarious. HOW WILL THEY MAKE PROFITS? They stop selling music. This means, no celebrities that will endorse them. No personalities means no memorabilia to sell. No celebrities recording music means no royalties to collect because nobody is wanting to use the music for things.
Guess what happens then? The musicians sell their stuff on their own, AND EVERYBODY WINS EXCEPT THE RIAA.
Well, I guess in their own mind, they win, because now nobody is stealing their music, as they no longer sell any. CHALK UP ANOTHER GREAT VICTORY FOR BUSINESS!
Please note that this is the truth.
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