‘Secret’ RIAA expenses
p2pnet news | RIAA News:- Why are the record companies being so secretive about their costs in connection with downloads?
The RIAA is fighting hard to keep that information secret, even though a judge ruled last November that defendants are entitled to try and prove that the damages the RIAA is looking for are unconstitutionally disproportionate to “actual damages”.
Obviously the expense data are needed to compute “actual damages”.
The issue takes on heightened importance from the revelation last week that the RIAA isn’t just seeking $750-per-song-file, but $750 to $150,000 per song file, from file sharers, in a case where it actually got a jury to award $9250 per song file.
Ray Beckerman – Recording Industry vs The People
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October 10th, 2007 at 10:39 am
My company has just completed the recording of 24 songs, to be released in the next few months. I can assure anyone that these recordings are superior to any of the RIAA/24 Jammie Thomas songs. The total (and I really mean total) cost of making these recordings and some videos is less than 8 percent of the Jammie Thomas fine.
Meaning is that at $9,000 plus per song it is far cheaper for anyone to make their own superior recordings than to download the songs when RIAA is watching. With the fine money Jammie Thomas could have recorded about 300 songs which she could exploit commercially.
Two of the 24 recorded songs can be heard on you tube:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-2_8HZDIso0
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UoJ37MA95Ag
October 11th, 2007 at 6:45 am
Laptop : 1500$
Good sound card : 1000$
Good Software : 1000$
Good Microphones : 1000$ each, at least X3 = 3000$
Rent a studio (for loud stuff you can’t record at home) : 12$/hour +
Pressing = 1$/each copy .. lets say 2000$ for this one.
so for the price of one song, you can afford a studio.. hmm.. what could cost so much in producing a record,.. oh yeah
engineer : 50 000$ +
Layers : 50 000$ +
Record label : 50 000$ +
Dealing with record stores : 50 000$
etc, etc..
You people should understand the true cost of recording music
October 11th, 2007 at 10:46 am
” You people should understand the true cost of recording music ”
You mean like the Spencer Davis Group ?
There bigest hit was a little song called gimme some lovin’ which was basically home recorded.
I’ll bet almost nobody know that song ;P
recording music doesn’t have to cost that much to be good.
I wish some people understood that.
October 11th, 2007 at 5:46 pm
“engineer : 50 000$ ”
This is obviously an inflated cost. A good engineer should not work for more than 16 hours record a CD. At 50/hr that is about. So we are talking of less than $1,000.
BTW, sound engineers need not be exensive degreed engineers. I know some “sound engineers” that do a magnificent job at the record studio and who are just musician that have learned to use the studio equipment.
Of course record companies inflate all their cost, to make sure records end as loosers and artists need not be paid then. You know, the accounting tricks.