This trend is disturbing to me. I’m beginning to think that most people who post here are only interested in one thing: to protect their ability to DL songs and such for free. The fact is that I’m here because I want to see copyright reform. I want the RIAA and MPAA to stop terrorizing consumers. I want to be able to take a song or movie that I have legally purchased play it wherever I want and to make a backup copy so that if the original is lost I can still listen. I am also for a fair price and compensating artists for their work. Fair price is determined by the market (agreement between the consumer and producer), be that .25, .50, 1.00 or 10.00. I beleive that government intervention by the draconian laws have unbalanced free trade so that consumers are at a disadvantage in the marketplace. This, to me, is the fight.

Isn’t that “fair use” ?
Isn’t that already a consumer right ?
Isn’t what they are doing .. charging us MORE for
the priviledge of excersing what is already a right ?

Fuck that.

I can do that now, for free, by borrowing a friends CD.
It’s a bit of a hassle, but the price they are asking IS TOO
HIGH .. period.

Someone mentioned above. .25 cents ??
That’s more like it. It’s worth a quarter to avoid the pain-in-the-ass
factor. AS LONG AS IT IS TOTALLY DRM FREE.

Here’s the point, in 1974, I was paying between 75 cents and 1.00 each for these 45s. In today’s economy that would amount to, I guess, about 3 or 4 dollars per record. I also had a pretty good collection of these gems.

When you think about things in those terms, suddenly, 1.10 doesn’t seem like a bad deal, with the added advantage of being able to copy the music or play it wherever you like. Considering that tape recorders were rare and expensive and frankly a record player is not portable enough to use while jogging, I’m glad to have an MP3 file.

Lest you think I’m some sort of RIAA shill, I am not. I have downloaded enough MP3 files from bittorrent sites to listen for months without hearing the same song. I’m just providing a another perspective.

I can rip all I want off the cds I have at present. The cartels aren’t making anything that I am interested in so it makes the choice easy.

No Thank You.

I also want it DRM free – just a FLAC file thank you.

I also want lifetime access in case my computer fries and I wasn’t smart enough to make a backup.

For my favourite artists, I’d pay $7 to $10 for a nice CD in a durable cover (jewel cases suck!) with a detailed, colourful insert. That would be enough to make me pay the extra $$ for the nice features.

We’ve had CDs for over 20 years now, and how much innovation has there been in packaging? DVDs have been popular for 5 years or so and they have some imaginative packaging, particularly the TV show sets.

Wake up RIAA. Get creative and embrace technology, or the next generation of listeners won’t have anything to do with you.

I want to be able to burn backup Disks without having to worry about frying my computer …again… because of C.R.A.P/DRM. I want to be able to make MY OWN collection of songs from the CDs/DVDs I buy so I can seamlessly listen to my favorite songs while driving, therefore allowing me LESS distraction from the roads I’m driving on, thereby allowing me to be a SAFER driver.

In other words: I WANT ‘FAIR USE’ BACK THE WAY IT ___WAS___! …BEFORE the RIAA/MPA decided to effect NAZI/SS tactics in order to BRIBE their own customers.