Comments on: Big Music Canada fiasco

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Mon, 17 Oct 2005 15:09:34 +0000

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Mon, 17 Oct 2005 15:09:11 +0000

Jealousy is an ugly thing, but delusional is worse.

As a Canadian (not the one who replied earlier), I can attest that most of Canadians consider it an insult to be called American.

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Tue, 30 Nov 2004 04:49:52 +0000

Every Canadian’s dream is to become and American. Jealousy is an ugly thing…

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Sun, 28 Nov 2004 08:23:24 +0000

“Like a lot of Canadian organizations, it’s just a branch plant for their American masters.”

Pfffft.. hilarious how little power you yourself have, yet you speak of some American omnipotence..

Some crappy joke on a rinky dink fringe website does not make the CRIA the RIAA’s bitch..

It just so happens that stealing music is NOT a long-term solution that anyone can live with… and makes sense that the CRIA would act the way it does.

I await further Canadian organizations that desperately look South for.. pffft.. guidance.

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Sat, 27 Nov 2004 15:19:12 +0000

“Compared to America, it has a small population and no true national media pool – that’s to say, a large number of major media organs with widely varying perspectives and political persuasions in competition with each other to supply the news.”

The US media might on the surface seem diverse, but underneath there are a small number of mega-conglomerates that control virtually all of the mainstream market – and their viewpoints tend to fall in lock-step with each other. Any whose viewpoints fight the current will tend to be pushed back into line by threats of special-interest or corporate advertising boycotts, or being shut off from access to government officials.

That’s one reason why I read the foreign press for all political news about the USA. There are many truths that the mainstream US media dares not ever mention.

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Sat, 27 Nov 2004 13:38:36 +0000

Well written article, but questions still remain.
Customer/consumer basically means paid for/stolen. Sorry. Don’t get me wrong….I feel I have the right to download every single one of the songs that I have on LP. I ain’t paying anymore for that right.

You seem to think that there is a better ‘business model’ out there? What would that be?
They have the same old sites at 99 cents a song, and that’s 99 cents more than what they started with.
How can the record industry become one with P2P?
It will never happen.
P2P is ‘us versus them’, and always will be.
Imagine a silly scenerio…..
Kazaa hooks up with the RIAA…once free, now ya gotta have a credit card. People will say ‘whatever’ and move on.
Downloading music is something that I feel I have a right to do. I already own the right to listen, as I have about 1000 LP’s!
Some of those albums I have re-purchased the rights too, by buying the cd version. But I already owned those rights!
So….I feel no sympathy for the record companies. If they had a ‘bring in your LP’ and ‘trade it for a cd’ deal…ha ha ha
Why not? I own the right to listen to the damn thing!
But Suzy down the street pays as much as me.
Suzy doesn’t have it on LP. Why does she ‘own’ it when she buys the cd, but I don’t ‘own’ it ’cause I have the LP?

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Sat, 27 Nov 2004 05:37:27 +0000

You’re new here, aren’t you?

It’s an ongoing joke. It suggests the CRIA takes direction from the RIAA. Like a lot of Canadian organizations, it’s just a branch plant for their American masters.

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Fri, 26 Nov 2004 22:13:09 +0000

Actually he’s probably quite right

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Fri, 26 Nov 2004 21:21:59 +0000

You say that the press cannot get their stories right. What about you? How many times must you be told that it is not CRIA (Canadian Recording Industry Association of America) but CRIA (Canadian Recording Industry Association).

There is NO “America” in the title.