Comments on: MPAA, RIAA, score in Higher-Ed Bill http://www.p2pnet.net/story/16558 p2pnet.net - reader powered Wed, 01 Feb 2012 15:11:09 -0300 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Reader's Write http://www.p2pnet.net/story/16558/comment-page-1#comment-651082 Reader's Write Thu, 31 Jul 2008 16:07:37 +0000 http://www.p2pnet.net/story/16558#comment-651082 The previous posters hit the main problem on the head: college students do not remotely care about half the crap that passes for music nowadays that the music industry tries to push on them. If they would open up their FULL catalogs, even from decades ago, to a one dollar a song download, every student in America would gladly hop on board, the RIAA would make hundreds of millions of dollars of profit, the sue-em-all campaign would grind to a halt, and *everyone* would be happy! But nooOOOoo...the music industry is way too arrogant to even consider doing somehing like that. The idiots. The previous posters hit the main problem on the head: college students do not remotely care about half the crap that passes for music nowadays that the music industry tries to push on them. If they would open up their FULL catalogs, even from decades ago, to a one dollar a song download, every student in America would gladly hop on board, the RIAA would make hundreds of millions of dollars of profit, the sue-em-all campaign would grind to a halt, and *everyone* would be happy!

But nooOOOoo…the music industry is way too arrogant to even consider doing somehing like that. The idiots.

]]> By: Reader's Write http://www.p2pnet.net/story/16558/comment-page-1#comment-649105 Reader's Write Thu, 31 Jul 2008 01:00:28 +0000 http://www.p2pnet.net/story/16558#comment-649105 Any decent music artists don't get the same recognition or PR these days for some reason. Even Neil Diamond, whose previous and current albums are quite good, are virtually unknown releases despite using a top infamous label Any decent music artists don’t get the same recognition or PR these days for some reason. Even Neil Diamond, whose previous and current albums are quite good, are virtually unknown releases despite using a top infamous label

]]> By: Reader's Write http://www.p2pnet.net/story/16558/comment-page-1#comment-648703 Reader's Write Wed, 30 Jul 2008 21:56:39 +0000 http://www.p2pnet.net/story/16558#comment-648703 I'm really really curious, how is all this internet filtering gonna stop copying? I can see how this will go. The student goes home for summer, downloads movies and music all summer, stuffs it on an external hard drive and returns to college. Instead of taking several hours of the uni's internet time to download, they will just swap external drives to copy all they wish, file trading without the net. Only difference here is that they will now have the choice of 250 to 500 gigs of stuff to grab, without having to get on the net. Looks to me like all they did was remove the trace route from the net. I suspect that with all the bad PR the RIAA has generated for the music industry, that most students don't want the mainstream crap coming out the major studios. Not only will they not want it today but in the future as well. This is what happened with brand name recognition, repeat buyers, and the automotive industry in the states. Their product was so bad back in the late 70's and early 80's that they started hemorrhaging from lost business. Today the #1 worldwide auto maker isn't one from the states, it's Toyota who makes a better product for the money. The stateside automakers never did recover from the bad PR that their poorly made, low quality products, gave them. You can look for a repeat of this unlearned history lesson yet again for music and if it doesn't change directions, from movies as well. More and more people are turning to games. Computer games saw a rough 20% gain in sales while music is slowly losing ground as a less desirable option for the entertainments discretionary income the average household has to spend. All this while the economy is headed into a recession. Music is headed the same way the major automotive makers here in the states went and for much the same reasons. I’m really really curious, how is all this internet filtering gonna stop copying?

I can see how this will go. The student goes home for summer, downloads movies and music all summer, stuffs it on an external hard drive and returns to college. Instead of taking several hours of the uni’s internet time to download, they will just swap external drives to copy all they wish, file trading without the net. Only difference here is that they will now have the choice of 250 to 500 gigs of stuff to grab, without having to get on the net. Looks to me like all they did was remove the trace route from the net.

I suspect that with all the bad PR the RIAA has generated for the music industry, that most students don’t want the mainstream crap coming out the major studios. Not only will they not want it today but in the future as well. This is what happened with brand name recognition, repeat buyers, and the automotive industry in the states. Their product was so bad back in the late 70’s and early 80’s that they started hemorrhaging from lost business. Today the #1 worldwide auto maker isn’t one from the states, it’s Toyota who makes a better product for the money. The stateside automakers never did recover from the bad PR that their poorly made, low quality products, gave them. You can look for a repeat of this unlearned history lesson yet again for music and if it doesn’t change directions, from movies as well.

More and more people are turning to games. Computer games saw a rough 20% gain in sales while music is slowly losing ground as a less desirable option for the entertainments discretionary income the average household has to spend. All this while the economy is headed into a recession. Music is headed the same way the major automotive makers here in the states went and for much the same reasons.

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