Comments on: Don’t buy CDs this Christmas !!

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Tue, 20 Dec 2005 20:57:59 +0000

I think nationalizing the music industry would be a horrible mistake. Politicians are every bit as corrupt as the music industry, you would merely be taking it from one group of thieves and handing it over to another. I can see a system where companies that donate big money to politicians are left alone, whereas companies that don’t pay up wind up under government ownership. Another negative is that by nationalizing them you are preserving them. A far better idea is to let natural selection take it’s course. The ones that can not adapt to changing technology will (and should) die a well deserved death. What you are now doing is the real solution, refuse to buy any product from them until they change or go out of business.

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Tue, 20 Dec 2005 14:05:29 +0000

wowwwwwww nice post matika tc

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Mon, 19 Dec 2005 04:44:06 +0000

Since the dawn of time we have evolved from almost everything,
to clothing, hairdo’s , cars, technology.
clothing in regular stores now a days cost over 20 , 40 , 80 dollars for one pair of paints or shirt , what is cheaper to go to a store like goodwill and find it the same pants the same shirt that same dress that cost an arm and a leg a lot cheaper than what it cost in Walmart or Sears or even J.C. Penny’s .
But yet there is some people that is true to form and must , must , buy from these stores because they’ve grown up getting the things they always wanted and the richer the better.
take for instance dvd’s or cd’s which is the controversy of this constant but annoying battle the riaa is going threw with users of the Internet (I will never honor the riaa by capitalizing their name).
The riaa constantly barges in people’s houses trying to take their children away from them because they file share music by using p2p file sharing systems like Kazaa or Grokster or Morpheus, which the riaa have spys and hackers on them watching their every move and once in a while sending their little and hopefully harmless viruses through the songs that people download.
And the Record Companies complain because their paychecks aren’t as big as it used to be and their wives and children might have to go with-out their fur coats and expensive toys, because way back when in the 80’s cd’s and tapes were only for 15 to 20 dollars and people such as the terrible Teenagers (as I think the riaa calls them )
used to buy up a lot of them for half of the price that they are today.
I went to Walmart the other day and did a price check for 40 dollars I could get to popular movies , so I went to a place where they had cd’s and dvd’s both and for 80 dollars I got the two movies that walmart had plus two popular cd’s and 4 playstations 2 games all popular all very , very expensive at the regular stores including walmart which sells how low it’s prices are through comercials.
and I didn’t get them off the net , didn’t pay for them they weren’t hot or the piracy dvd people in New York on a street corner tried to sell me.
I got it through a cheap but very well stocked with good cd’s and excellent movies, store and none of them movies were from off the file sharing systems the riaa is so afraid of .
So lets ask ourselves about the prices we all have to pay.
Some do it to be miss popular, some do it to show authority and they think respect.
But I think they do it because they are old fashioned and they can’t keep up with the times of Technology.
like I say for my title
Since The Dawn Of Time We Have Evolved
too bad for the world the Record Companies and movie companies and the riaa have not!!!!!!!!

Sincerely,

LADYMATIKA

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Sun, 18 Dec 2005 23:20:18 +0000

I agree 100%. it’s a service the industry is performing. however be careful about the auto mechanic anology. I used in on another blog and was flamed by an arrogant know it all lawyer wanna be who supports the music industry.

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Sun, 18 Dec 2005 21:18:14 +0000

Fluff

Why should copyright holders be given protection for their creation for life plus ?
Their end effort produces a product of no value

Drug companies spend years developing a drug that saves or improves life, yet are protected for only twenty years
Farmers spend millions and get payed at rates that their grandfathers were payed.
The man who repairs your car does not get payed each time the car starts after a repair.
The plumber does not get payed each time you flush after a repair.
When Girl scouts sell you a cookie it,s yours.
When you buy a car, the manufacture does not have the right to tell you how to drive it.

If no music was played from this day on:
People would not die from its loss
There would be food to eat
there would be cloths to ware
there would be water to drink
there would be homes to live in
there would be cars to drive
there would be air to breath
there would be planes to fly
Life would change very little if at all, music is nothing more then fluff, how it’s become a top priority
for the government is beyond me.
The fluff salesman has done their job well i guess.