Comments on: Big Music at G8 summit

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Sun, 16 Jul 2006 21:39:32 +0000

thanks.

you’re right…and i never said or implied it was a p2p site:

“A G8 meeting is not a forum or an “open mic night” for the cartels to spout their lies and complain that filesharing or cheaper alternatives are ruining their business.”

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Sun, 16 Jul 2006 20:37:57 +0000

I agree that this is outrageous. My only quibble with this article is that allofmp3.com isn’t a p2p site, as far as I can tell.

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Sun, 16 Jul 2006 15:05:19 +0000

With media such as music, TV or films, nothing is ‘consumed’, so you can’t really be considered a ‘consumer’ of these things. The cartels are still operating with business models that commoditizes their ‘product’ like a bag of chips or a box of laundry detergent, believing that their ‘consumers’ will have to go buy more when they run out. The caretls then have a tantrum and file lawsuits when some of their customers have the tumerity not to comply with the assumptions of a flawed, obsolete paradigm.

–TG

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Sat, 15 Jul 2006 23:36:52 +0000

Again, well said.

For everyone of us here that you do see in type, there are literally thousands that aren’t responding on this forum that feel the same way.

I’m another that is vocal about this and do the same as the one above me. It isn’t the cartels choice of what I will or will not support with my money. Simply, my money is a vote for what I believe in. I don’t believe in the actions of the cartels as being in my best interests. Therefore, I’m on boycott, totally ceasing to become a “consumer” (I HATE that word, as I along with the rest of the potential buying public are customers and should at least be granted the respect that without us, there is no cartel funded, no entertainment sources funded, no greedy corporations funded.)

So kiss your steady income goodbye by another dissatisfied ex-customer. With this grassroots type decisions, one at a time, begins the source of the downfall of this sort of greed.

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Sat, 15 Jul 2006 23:03:15 +0000

Well said!

Whenever you think this mob couldn’t sink any lower they somehow manage to break through the decency barrier once again.
For probably over a year (when initially I became aware of their child suing, blind Grandmother suing, broke student suing attitudes) I have bought nothing whatsoever from any of them, whereas I used to make several purchages a month. Now I buy strictly used CDs DVDs etc., it’s amazing just how quickly these become available on Ebay or Amazon Z-shops etc. I also vow (a vow I know I shall keep!) never to buy anything from them again.

It would be great if some of you lousy fuckers (BPI,RIAA, MPAA and all equivalents) read this, then considered that there are probably an awful lot of people reacting to your discraceful, overbloated, ridiculously self-important attitudedes the same way that I am. I certainly encourage all of you to do so.
Whereas in the past I used to feel that they were actually giving us a reasonable service, I now have nothing but an unreversible contempt for them. I hope they all rot in hell.