------------------ "Hello and welcome to 'Whose Line Is It Anyway?' The show where everything's made up and the points don't matter - just like a condom to a Trekkie." - Drew Carey, Whose Line Is It Anyway?
posted
All of which would be true, if the equation music=software was valid.
However, the RIAA has so far failed to show any qualitative difference between MP3's and cassette tapes. (Ignoring for a moment my apparent inability to remember how to spell cassette...) And cassettes were heralded as the death of music when they were new, with many of the same arguments.
Personally, I disagree with the RIAA that its main goal is to ensure the copyright of the artist. From my point of view, their sole interest is to preserve the Radio/Wal-Mart monolith. When music is distributed outside the traditional corporate structure, it isn't the artists who are hurt, it's the suits.
Now don't get me wrong. I'm free market all the way, baby. I don't even think that the aforementioned "suits" are evil. But they are currently engaged in a business model that is strangling American music. Ultimately, I'd like to see the whole system die a screaming death. But I don't think MP3's or Napster will lead to this, just as cassettes haven't. I'm willing to bet, barring recession or wholesale economic crash, that album sales will continue to rise this year, even with all those mean folks stealing music.
------------------ "Oh, it's an anti-anti-WTO song. It's essentially a pro-Starbucks song. I saw this picture of a guy sticking his foot through a plate-glass window in a Starbucks in Seattle, and he was wearing a Nike. Man, couldn't you just change your shoes?" -- M. Doughty
posted
lmao. You think they would drop prices if we stopped? Anyway ol chap, that's the whole point. Refuse to pay ludicrous prices. Take the generally used office software. Over here you are looking at $500 for the lot. Bugger me if I A) have that kind of money B) am going to pay for it.
------------------ "Blind faith is the crutch of fools"
Well, Well maybe if the Record companies act using legal pratices maybe I would care a bit more about Napster (btw I was one of the 350,000 people banned from the use of Napster)
------------------ Somehow you were linked to this page, which doesn't really exist. Well, this one does, but the one you were trying to get to doesn't. Actually, that's not really true either, because it probably does, but either you mistyped it or our webmaster is asleep at the wheel. If the later is the case (you were linked here from a page within **********.net) then please let us know.
If you were linked here from an external site, which is most often the case, it would be nice of you to let them know.
------------------ Frank's Home Page John Flansburgh: "This song is so old that it's actually featured on our brand new record." John Linnell: "It's one of those year 2000 problems."
Some of us need to burn Windows 98 to feed our starving family as well.
------------------ "Hello and welcome to 'Whose Line Is It Anyway?' The show where everything's made up and the points don't matter - just like a condom to a Trekkie." - Drew Carey, Whose Line Is It Anyway?
posted
Tell me something Frank, if a loaf of bread is overpriced, and a man takes it, would you crucify him? The oh so great market is not forcing the companies to come to an acceptable equilibrium price. Thus the industrious are pivoting within the existing system to achieve their goals. Its nothing new.
------------------ "Blind faith is the crutch of fools"
posted
Again, breaking the law destroys societies. If you don't like a law, get it changed.
------------------ Frank's Home Page John Flansburgh: "This song is so old that it's actually featured on our brand new record." John Linnell: "It's one of those year 2000 problems."
posted
Yeah, go through the beaureaucrats. That really works. Nope, if you want it to change you have to do something to make them take notice. Not spend your time holding the line. By the way, you can go ring a congressman, what impact will that have on me over here?
------------------ "Blind faith is the crutch of fools"
posted
Plus, who am I actually taking money off of? You think that I can afford �300 to but Office 2000? Bugger me if I can.
I, personally, don't think that computer games are overpriced. Look, TIE Fighter cost �40 when it was released. The average price of PC games today is �30-�35. At the start of the 90s, it was �30 for an Amiga game, which had far less manpower behind it. So I'm perfectly willing to pay for PC and Playstation games.
However, don't you think it's strange that the unpiratable cart based systems, such as the N64, have games costing almost twice as much? If no-one's copying them ,how comes they don't cost �20?
------------------ *Amusing quote not available, please call back later*
Huh huh.
Printer-friendly view of this topic
