Comments on: RIAA with Don Reisinger: read, weep

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Thu, 17 Jan 2008 09:19:46 +0000

“college students have reached a stage in life when their music habits are crystallized, and their appreciation for intellectual property has not yet reached its full development,”

He is right!

Their music habit are crystalized in a Boycott and their intellectual property has reached their full development in the understanding that there is no such thing as an intellectual property.

Personally I refuse to discuss any copyright issues as long as these parasites are still alive. But be patient because the end is near for them so that we can have a debate without them after they are dead.

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Thu, 17 Jan 2008 09:13:48 +0000

Everyone know that RIAA=Vivendi/Universal+ Sony/BMG+EMI+Time Warner=a big pile or parasites.
I thought that the entairtainement business was about beeing cool!

No need to ask where all this business lost they are sufferibg is comminf from:

BOYCOTT!

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Wed, 16 Jan 2008 03:30:25 +0000

All the hoopala is over the idea they don’t want to change their outmoded business model because it is tough for them to figure a way to profit from the new one. They themselves are responcible for that change. No one made them decide to give sweetheart deals to chain stores for volume. The result was mom and pop couldn’t get the same deals so could not compete with the price difference and across the nation, mom and pop stores closed as a result. Anytime you remove large choice and replace it with small choices and leave no space for back catalog sales, what happens? The industry shinks as you can not sell less and do greater volumes of sales off less. Duh!

Then after the chains had the mass of national business came the news the majors would sell for less or they could take their business elsewhere. Not a major hurt for the chains but a near death blow for the music industry. When you reduce the cost of the product you don’t make more from less. Duh!

Filler to make an album out of less quality material results in the customer getting ripped off. That’s how P2P got it’s start in the first place. Why pay for what you don’t want? Duh!

Now the cartels want to sue anything that moves and has so much as a note of music in it. The PR blackeye they are getting over this isn’t improving business, no matter what is thought about the sue’em all. Instead most are beginning to get educated in the idea they don’t need big music because they can buy a game that has far more entertainment value for the buck. The majors are now in the process of instituting a general feeling of advoidance for their products. By doing this at the college level, they are cutting their own throats by ensuring there will be no next generation of mass music lovers tied to the product. In essence they are ensuring their death by turning public opinion against them. Duh!

It takes no great feat of imagination to figure out that hard drive transfers are far faster than the internet. Sueing won’t remove the wanting to share items, it will just take place in other means. Take your 500 gig USB hard drive to your buddy for the day, find the next day he has what he would like from your selection and you have the same in new stuff. Trace the internet IP on that one. Duh!

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Tue, 15 Jan 2008 23:39:37 +0000

My school just got hit and it made front page news in the school. Only a matter of time for students to start protesting this.

By: melvillian

melvillian — Tue, 15 Jan 2008 23:25:02 +0000

“…the offering of great legal alternatives so that students can have access to their favorite music (at deeply discounted prices or even for free)”

huh? i haven’t heard of any discount music and/or free alternatives. hey if anybody knows about any tell me, because i want to do the right thing. ; )

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Tue, 15 Jan 2008 21:12:56 +0000

He missed a question that simply MUST be asked by someone:

Q: “Why have you not sent a single letter to students attending Harvard? Are they uniquely not infringing?”

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Tue, 15 Jan 2008 17:42:46 +0000

1. It’s not stealing, its infringing and that =! stealing.
2. Their lawsuits have had no affect whatsoever on piracy, infact piracy has increased because of them.
3. Their 3 billion is estimated if pirates would have bought the music in stores instead, they probably wouldnt even know the music existed at all if not for piracy and would therefore not have bought it in the first place so the figures comes from thin air for stupid people to believe.
4. I support fighting real piracy, the piracy for profits. but i think fighting internet piracy will fail because people will always share. it is in our nature, they can try and change humanity if they wish and i sincerely hope they turn inside out so rodents can knaw on their intestines while they try..

I weep for the industry being so ignorant and all the students whose future is ruined because they did something that is in the very nature of being human.

By: RIAA rep

RIAA rep — Tue, 15 Jan 2008 17:35:00 +0000

Ms Duckworth, very well said. Very well indeed. You are a credit to the organisation, my dear lady!

People are finally beginning to consume music our way. If that isn’t obvious to the general public yet, just wait a few months and it will become very apparent.