Comments on: File sharing and Canadians

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Sat, 10 Jul 2004 07:30:30 +0000

One solution to the cribs of the recording industry is to deflate the price tags on CDs and make it attractive enough .

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Sat, 10 Jul 2004 07:24:40 +0000

Downloading music is not techincally legal. The courts ruled that keeping digital copies on computers were NOT illegal. The person’s computer HD where the back up resides is not responsible if someone connects to their computer and takes a copy of that file. Please be more specific in your language usage in the future.

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Fri, 09 Jul 2004 21:48:32 +0000

I dont think they realize that the wave of the future is going to be all digital music and it is going to be widely accessable over the net. what good is an iPod or other products like that if we dont have digital music. If they stopped thier bitching and just accepted it and changed the way they market they could make a lot of money from this… They essentially have a pipeline (the internet) from the studio to the consumer. What more could you ask for.
Put it this way. If the music industry just canned the actual production of cd’s and just sold the digital music online they would make a fortune. They no longer would have the overhead of actually making the cds and so it would be a cash cow. yes they would loose some money cause there is bound to be piraters because it is already in the digital format, but the pros deffinatly outway the cons.
Not to mention that if they did that and then bought stock in the portable digital player industry they would be even larger “fat cats” than they are now.
They are too caught up in the past to be able to progress in the future…

Swill Masta
(Software Developer)

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Fri, 09 Jul 2004 21:48:22 +0000

Surely the Canadian governmemt will consider all the ramifications, truths, half -truths and false assumptions before legislating a change on the legality of downloading. Hopefully the public interest will be upheld when all the ramifications are considered–if not god help us; otherwise we are at the mercy of a greedy industry.

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Fri, 09 Jul 2004 21:16:58 +0000

Of coarse we burn cd’s. Thats why they sell blank ones that have a tax on them that goes to the industry for doing so. What a complete waste of time spent on that survey. and yes I sometimes turn on the radio and listen to music for free aswell. I heard my daughter singing a song the other day, are they going to stop that aswell because she did not write the words or the music. The more they piss people off about this the more people will copy insted of buying origanals. To all you musicians. Get rid of these gangsters and run your own life and get all the money for doing so. FOOLS

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Fri, 09 Jul 2004 21:15:19 +0000

Right on Man. The dya I shed a tear for the facist music industry is the day I die.

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Fri, 09 Jul 2004 20:50:11 +0000

That’s supposed to be an sardonic joke ; )

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Fri, 09 Jul 2004 20:36:05 +0000

I cannot see what all the fuss is about with this so “file sharing”

For a good many years now people have been taping music from radios all over the planet

It seems that all of a sudden it is now wrong to do it ovet the ‘net.

What is the difference as long as you do not do it for personal gain, or make multiple copies to sell?

I am sure most of the folks who download music only want the have a personal copy for their music collection.

I wonder if anyone else feels the same way? I am a senior in my 70s. and have seen taping from the radio since

the fifties………………….Keith in Canada.

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Fri, 09 Jul 2004 20:28:09 +0000

“they own the CRIA (Canadian Recording Industry Association of America)”…

Hate to nitpick, but CRIA is the Canadian Recording Industry Association. Not “of America”… – they have their own.

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Fri, 09 Jul 2004 09:07:59 +0000

You forgot Brainwashing people with their Payola schemes and keepin Indies off the radio because of their Payola bribes!!!!!!!!!!!!