Comments on: The RIAA — ‘a few facts’

By: f4te

f4te — Mon, 07 Apr 2008 03:27:13 +0000

that actual article from the daily lobo has no sources… where is he getting his information? it’s filed under opinion too…

By: Welshie

Welshie — Thu, 27 Mar 2008 10:44:07 +0000

“Many students are wrongfully targeted, and most of them are settling for several thousands of dollars because they fear even bigger legal costs or fines down the road,”

You might also want to consider that IF a student is studying to be a lawyer, work in the financial institution, law enforcment, etc they will feel forced to settle or else risk being ‘barred’ from their future career by having a criminal record for theft, infringment, etc.

What’s the defenition of blackmail again?

By: Ed Win

Ed Win — Thu, 27 Mar 2008 07:48:20 +0000

That’s why I never buy at full retail price, but always require a discount. Not my fault if they have to make less profit. Even on blank media I require discount even if not on “special”. Why not let the retailer absorb it? If they refuse I go elsewhere and tell them I can get a discount at such and such, and so they usually better the price. The system sucks, but instead of sucking it out of the consumer, turn it around.

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Wed, 26 Mar 2008 20:56:03 +0000

Uh, Rekrul, how do you/we know that the CDR tax isn’t built into the price of computer CD/DVD burners???

***And, to all the rest of you, uh, Vinyl is slowly making a comeback. Record players are being sold now. Some “combo sets” include either a CD player or a CD player AND a cassette deck along with the Record Player.

By: Rekrul

Rekrul — Wed, 26 Mar 2008 18:41:37 +0000

Just one of the reasons I make sure to avoid buying “music” CDRs. They aren’t needed to burn music CDs on a computer anyway, data CDRs work just fine.

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Wed, 26 Mar 2008 16:49:30 +0000

HARRY FOX?

“and the Harry Fox Agency must, “ensure that the artists and their descendants will receive the compensation to which they are entitled,” said then New York state attorney general Eliot Spitzer”

Harry Fox has no such faculty and Spitzer should/must have known that Harry Fox pays music publisher who keep most or all of the money before paying the songwriters or their descendants.

While TECHNICALLY it cannot be said that Harry Fox does anything wrong, they are owned and controlled by the publishers and part of that control results in Harry Fox not publishing anywhere available to songwriters what money was paid for what song. Its all in the design.