Comments on: RIAA Ohio University spin session

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Tue, 06 Nov 2007 19:47:56 +0000

$100,000 and my torrents still work! hahaha
Good job.

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Thu, 01 Nov 2007 03:14:11 +0000

Commodore, despite its corporate blunders in the later years of its life before bankruptcy, was very well run in the beginning. When Jack Tramiel realized that calculators and thermostats wasn’t the way to go, he shifted his business over into the realm of personal computers, and at the pinnacle of it all produced the best-selling single model of personal computer ever: the Commodore 64.

Now, if Commodore was like the RIAA, do you think that would have happened? Or would they simply have ended up being permanently a minor player in the calculator biz trying to compete with HP and Texas Instruments?

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Wed, 31 Oct 2007 23:31:48 +0000

Anyone else notice that all tangible goods go down in price year after year? It’s called competition folks, something that should also apply to intangible goods, if the RIAA wants us to treat them the same!. But the much hated corporate music and movie cartels don’t play by these rules. They want to have their cake and eat it. They want intangible objects to be treated the same as tangible (economic scarcity rules suggest otherwise), however, they don’t want to regulated like other monopolies. That’s what antitrust investigations are designed to eliminate. However, governments around the world refuse to acknowledge this. Why you ask? simple, they bride politicans / government officials of all levels.

They are simply put, the worst scum of the earth. It would most certainly be a better place without these middlemen.

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Wed, 31 Oct 2007 19:16:42 +0000

They know their business model is weak. No one but no one could miss that.

But face it, the days of the big label $1500 business lunches on the company credit card are over for the big wigs.

Because the labels can’t get it together to sit down and bargain and agree in good faith, they are their own worse enemies. One the public is rapidly learning to hate. The RIAA is steadily giving the music industry including the artists tied to them, a black eye in the terms of public relations.

Every contract, every nuance of change, is seen by the labels as a new oppurtunity to jack the price. No savings are seen passed on the customer. The customer already views the music now sold as far to high for the goods. You can’t hobble the product, reduce it’s quality, and expect the same price or more for less.

With all the bs going on of sue’em all many are just giving up on music. There are other forums of entertainment without the hassle and of more value for the buck. So the labels have shot theirselves in the foot again by turning a whole generation of potential music lovers into at best indifferent listeners and at worse people who will not buy from them under any circumstances.

The unwillingness to hear the market has changed beyond one of their control and to get with the program to discover how to profit on that, is not the markets problem, nor the public’s.

The public is suffering from apathy the lack of exposure to new and quality music. Payolla was directly responcible for the termination as a source of new music from the radio and p2p has taken its place for serious music lovers.

I have no interest in buying 40 year old songs for a higher price than I paid for them at the time they were a hit. Besides, I’ve had enough time to buy all that I am interested in the past.

At present and until things change for the better, I’m on a life long boycott of buying from the labels. Going from thousands of dollars a year to nothing. I’m telling the industry in the only way they will listen I don’t approve of their practices.

Good to hear it is being heard, even though not understood.

By: Mostly Harmless

Mostly Harmless — Wed, 31 Oct 2007 18:48:51 +0000

‘…the multi-billion-dollar labels are “hemorrhaging jobs and money”.’

Um, what happened to the horse and buggy business when automobiles took off? What happened to typewriter sales when PCs, word processing software, & printers became available? Obviously music itself is not becoming obsolete. Perhaps a closer look at their business model is in order? Ya think?

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Wed, 31 Oct 2007 18:19:47 +0000

“100 OU students have received pre-litigation settlement letters threatening lawsuits unless the recipients pay the RIAA $3,500″

Ok!

Bam! Bam! Bam! Bam! Bam! Bam! Bam! Bam! Bam! Bam! Bam! Bam! Bam! Bam! Bam! Bam! Bam! Bam! Bam! Bam! Bam! Bam! Bam! Bam! Bam! Bam! Bam! Bam! Bam! Bam! Bam! Bam! Bam! Bam! Bam! Bam! Bam! Bam! Bam! Bam! Bam! Bam! Bam! Bam! Bam! Bam! Bam! Bam!

This is your settlement money Parasites!

And keep the changes your fuzy animals!

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Wed, 31 Oct 2007 18:15:37 +0000

“Lamy said the multi-billion-dollar labels are “hemorrhaging jobs and money”.

This is what everyone want isn’t it?

Continue the Boycott!

No CD, No paying for down load, no theater tickets, no Brtineyslut, no Metalishit or Madonacrap concert, Nothing!

Not a penny should go to these parasites!

You owe this to your contry!

By: Jon

Jon — Wed, 31 Oct 2007 15:58:46 +0000

RIAA rep ^^ please stop these posts. They don't achieve anything and as I've told you before, I don't have time to keep watching for them. I know they're meant to be tongue-in-cheek but unfortunately, a lot of people take them seriously and we end up with pointless slagging matches which take attention away from the issues.

Cheers! And thanks ...

By: RIAA rep

RIAA rep — Wed, 31 Oct 2007 15:48:17 +0000

Oh, and I forgot. This isnt effective. I keep forgetting that.

By: Liam Jewell

Liam Jewell — Wed, 31 Oct 2007 15:46:47 +0000

I like the picture

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Wed, 31 Oct 2007 15:36:54 +0000

‘Giving the school to give the benefit of his wisdom, Lamy said the multi-billion-dollar labels are “hemorrhaging jobs and money”.’

As opposed to before when they were just wasting money?