Comments on: Teenagers abandon CDs

By: Henry Emrich

Henry Emrich — Fri, 29 Feb 2008 22:50:45 +0000

Just a question:
Has anybody ever actually thought up a way to have the “big media cartels” (who make the content possible) “rake in a percentage” from p2p traffic?
I mean, let’s be honest here: one of the biggest “arguments” you see in favor of p2p boils down to “why pay for crap when you can get it for free?” It’s exceedingly unlikely that p2p advocates WOULD actually bother with “legitimate” downloading, even if such downloading were of non-DRMed files. Y’know why?
They just want stuff for free. That’s the ONLY reason p2p as we know it was even invented (Shawn fanning’s whole purpose for making Napster was so he could find other people’s mp3 collections.)
So no, the “pure-hearted” anti-corporate p2p folks are exceedingly unlikely to ever actually PAY for music, even if the price is lowered to what they consider “reasonable”.

And, Mr. “Cd’s should be illegal to protect the environment”: fuck “the environment”, okay? Eco-nonsense has become the quickest and most sure-fire way to oppress people, and if you dare question it, you’re just a “corporate shill” (similar to how anyone who dares besmirch p2p leeches is is deemed to be an “RIAA troll”.

Go back to your crackpipe, Newton, and stop trying to defend the indefensible.

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Fri, 29 Feb 2008 01:53:02 +0000

I like the article. But I wish you would stop picking on the company stockholders. As a long-term investor myself, I can tell you these corporations are being run for the benefit of the executives, not for the shareholders. In fact most shareholders are getting just as screwed by these thugs as the artists and the public, with their hundred million dollar salaries and golden parachutes. I tell you anyone who buys stocks in these companies is going to LOSE money as they alienate their customers, destroy their businesses, and pay themselves millions for the privilege.

Read “Battle for the Soul of Capitalism” by John Bogle and you’ll see what a mockery of a real capitalist economy we have become…

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Thu, 28 Feb 2008 00:48:34 +0000

Why buy a Blu-Ray is even a bigger question

By: Andrey

Andrey — Wed, 27 Feb 2008 23:38:09 +0000

Why buy CDs when you can fit your music collection onto a Blu-ray?

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Wed, 27 Feb 2008 21:35:33 +0000

Teenagers abandon CD’s
Shit I’m 32 and I haven’t bought a CD in almost 10 years.
They are a waist of money and they are bad for the Enviornment.
The polution caused by CD printing and the impact they have on landfills should make them illegal.
I think the RIAA should have to pay carbon tax for every CD they make and consumers should get carbon credits for every song they download (regardless of whether it was legal or not)

and for the record I am not a tree hugger, I’m just using the “going green” aggainst the RIAA
also for the record I hate WordPress

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Wed, 27 Feb 2008 17:10:45 +0000

Every money you give to these parasites will be money they will use to extort someone.

No money for the pigs!

They are melting melting melting! The boycott is working and expending. The faster it expend the soonner they will go out of business the least people they will hurt.

Do your part as a good citizen! Tell your friends, your collegues your class mates no the feed the parasites!

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Wed, 27 Feb 2008 17:05:16 +0000

DO NOT BUY ANY THING FROM THE FOUR MAJOR PLEASE!