Comments on: DRM-free music is GOOD! http://www.p2pnet.net/story/12557 p2pnet.net offers not-your-lamescream news on movies music digital media P2P peer-to-peer TV television file sharing freedom of speech open source product news Wifi mobiles company news games video games game consoles security marketing DRM Internet radio web radio Thu, 28 Aug 2008 01:10:15 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.2.1 By: Reader's Write http://www.p2pnet.net/story/12557#comment-139561 Reader's Write Thu, 21 Jun 2007 01:09:47 +0000 http://www.p2pnet.net/story/12557#comment-139561 You aren't alone in this feeling. I personally feel alienated from big music. Not only has it gone to where I don't recognize it as being music any more but its so damn boringly the same. I can remember when albums came out that had not one or two hits on them but *gasp!* nearly all were hits. Now a days they are so stuffed with filler they aren't worth taking a chance on them with the money being charged for just one or two potentially likable songs. There's no excitement generated today. But there is another issue here attached to my wallet. I don't buy products whose corporations ways to doing business I don't like. It took a few years to wise up to the idea that my dollar was a vote in what I believed in and with holding it was another way of voting. Today I practice that religiously. The RIAA and other acronyms have shown me just what sort of business they are coupled with just want sort of people work for them that support these sort of actions. Recently the RIAA was voted one of the most despised companies on the face of the earth. Because they are nothing but the lightning rod supposed to take your wrath rather than the true order givers, I guess it never occurs to the labels they receive the fallout over the actions of their pets. Believe that I practice what I preach in this. When the RIAA started sueing file sharers, they kissed their last dollar coming from my hand. At that point I changed entertainment to movies and was buying 4-5 movies a week for my home library. Then the MPAA started on the sue rampage. Not only did I cease to buy or rent movies but I ceased to get any sort of tv programs at all. Today, my tv has no input to it but the dvd. You know what? Since being without it, I now realize just what a pest the ad companies are. Hearing one after being away from it so long, just turns me totally off. Without hearing them every day, every hour, I've become sensitized to the unwanted intrusion. At this point you couldn't make me take back tv to hooked up public airwaves. So not only did they loose a customer for life, they lost the willingness of me to put up with their income maker. Slick move on their part. You aren’t alone in this feeling. I personally feel alienated from big music. Not only has it gone to where I don’t recognize it as being music any more but its so damn boringly the same.

I can remember when albums came out that had not one or two hits on them but *gasp!* nearly all were hits. Now a days they are so stuffed with filler they aren’t worth taking a chance on them with the money being charged for just one or two potentially likable songs. There’s no excitement generated today.

But there is another issue here attached to my wallet. I don’t buy products whose corporations ways to doing business I don’t like. It took a few years to wise up to the idea that my dollar was a vote in what I believed in and with holding it was another way of voting. Today I practice that religiously.

The RIAA and other acronyms have shown me just what sort of business they are coupled with just want sort of people work for them that support these sort of actions. Recently the RIAA was voted one of the most despised companies on the face of the earth. Because they are nothing but the lightning rod supposed to take your wrath rather than the true order givers, I guess it never occurs to the labels they receive the fallout over the actions of their pets. Believe that I practice what I preach in this. When the RIAA started sueing file sharers, they kissed their last dollar coming from my hand.

At that point I changed entertainment to movies and was buying 4-5 movies a week for my home library. Then the MPAA started on the sue rampage. Not only did I cease to buy or rent movies but I ceased to get any sort of tv programs at all. Today, my tv has no input to it but the dvd. You know what? Since being without it, I now realize just what a pest the ad companies are. Hearing one after being away from it so long, just turns me totally off. Without hearing them every day, every hour, I’ve become sensitized to the unwanted intrusion.

At this point you couldn’t make me take back tv to hooked up public airwaves. So not only did they loose a customer for life, they lost the willingness of me to put up with their income maker.

Slick move on their part.

]]> By: Reader's Write http://www.p2pnet.net/story/12557#comment-139560 Reader's Write Thu, 21 Jun 2007 00:36:35 +0000 http://www.p2pnet.net/story/12557#comment-139560 What the corporates don't realise is, by suing all their customers, they have made enemies for life. It doesn't matter what PR stunts they pull, I for one will never buy from them again. They lost me as a customer a long time ago, with their vexatious attacks on the vulnerable. The populous has a long memory, and we shall not soon forget what they have done. I encourage (or do it for them) all my friends and family to download music from the piratebay and other good bittorrent sites. The RIAA and it's clients can kiss my arse. What the corporates don’t realise is, by suing all their customers, they have made enemies for life.

It doesn’t matter what PR stunts they pull, I for one will never buy from them again. They lost me as a customer a long time ago, with their vexatious attacks on the vulnerable. The populous has a long memory, and we shall not soon forget what they have done.

I encourage (or do it for them) all my friends and family to download music from the piratebay and other good bittorrent sites. The RIAA and it’s clients can kiss my arse.

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