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College-age kids, and younger are the RIAA's target market, and are the ones who can put them in their place by boycotting the recording industry. Once they go broke, the RIAA and record company execs won't have the resources to bring DMCA lawsuits or any others. Once the current greed for greed's own sake driven record racket dies, a new recording industry run by people who love music can rise from the ashes of the old. That is the way it was back in the day.

Boycotts do work. Greedy robber barons don't get our money when we don't buy their products. Don't buy CDs. Let them gather dust on store shelves.

"Forget the muderers and rapists, they are no threat to society. We need to lock up file traders!" Who is this asshat? Boycott the recording industry.

Everybody needs to support the Balance act, and not buy any CDs.

Do we need any further evidence that the recording industry are the real pirates? Don't buy CDs. Buying them doesn't support the artists. It only enriches the parasites exploiting them.

You can count on any RIAA sponsored study to produce fudged statistics. I wonder what impact consumer boycotts are having on CD sales?

I have a consumer advocacy website, dontbuycds.org on Fidelity Hosting. They have never given me any grief about the content of that site. They also have left alone my online tabloid, The Uncoveror. I can't complain about them.

A record label actually selling customers what they want! Maybe they should be exempt from the consumer boycott of the recording industry.

Lars Ulrich posts here, eh? Why don't they go after the producers of counterfeit CDs, and accept that file trading is promotion, like the radio? Whether you live in Australia, the US, Europe, Asia, Africa, or anywhere else, Don't buy CDs. Punish the record labels for harassing files traders, DRM, and price fixing by boycotting them.

Yes it is, but Zoe Lofgren's bill was even better. It took aim at shrinkwrap EULAs as well. I hope she re-introduces it. In addition to asking our congresscritters to suppport such bills, we can boycott big businesses opposing them, such as the recording industry. Clear Channel, and the MPAA.

So, six major retailers are forming a joint venture. That could be read as six major retailers have decided to collude, not compete. That is called a trust, and it is illegal if they are doing it to fix prices. I am very suspicious of this. Online or in a store, I will not buy CDs. The recording industry doesn't deserve my business.

If the record companies weren't stupid, they would survive. A lot of people will always want tangible things, and an MP3 that goes poof if your hard drive fails isn't tangible enough. Back in the day, I collected LPs. I could have just copied music onto blank tapes from my friends' records, tapes and CDs, but I didn't get the cool artwork, or other tangible things that made buying records desireable. Their own short sightedness and greed is killing the industry, not "piracy." In the eighties, they said home taping would kill them. Now they whine about CDR, and file trading. Bullsh*t!

She stepped down to spend time with her children. Yeah, right! She has harmed her industry beyond repair by trying to kill the free promotion of file trading, and calling paying customers thieves, all to slay a paper tiger called "piracy." They suggested that she should leave quietly. Expect more executives to be be forced out as more and more people get tired of their crap, and stop buying CDs.

While her successor may be no better than Hilary Rosen, I imagine even they are glad to see her go. They don't all believe that piracy is why sales are down. They won't say it, but many in the recording industry blame Hilary for their woes. Everyone needs to continue to boycott the recording industry. We are winning this fight! Hilary Rosen has surrendered.

The reasons to boycott the recording industry become more numerous every day. In their quest to slay a paper tiger they call piracy, they will not allow the fourth amendment, or anything else to get in the way.

Now that Microsoft is in bed with the entertainment cartels,(weren't they always?) we have yet another reason to use non-microsoft software like Linux. Don't Buy CDs. Not with music on them, or Microsoft software.

There is a funny Life In Hell cartoon about that very thing, Akbar and Jeff's Compact Disk Hut. Check it out!

I predict that they will cut production by at least 6% to insure their predicted decline happens, and will then whine to Congress even more about "piracy." Consolidation of the labels is the reason all they release is crap. If there were hundreds of small labels, not five, and soon to be four masssive corporate labels, there would be a lot more music to choose from at the record stores, and at prices people other than suckers would be willing to pay. Until the corporate leeches get out of the music industry, and musicians and music lovers take it back, don't buy CDs.

They want everyone to stop trading files, so they fill the networks with garbage. They want us to pay $20 for a CD that cost less than 1 to manufacture, and most of those are filled with garbage. Increasingly, they won't play in a computer because of "copy protection," when computers are they only player many of us have. How do we tell them we don't approve? By boycotting their products. Let CDs gather dust on store shelves.

Very inciteful, but you forgot one thing.

We need to boycott the terrorist music industry.

Indeed. The Berman Bill has not become law, and under the USA Patriot Act, Hacking can be considered terrorism. One thing we sould all do is boycott the recording industry.

Yes, to lay the smack down on the RIAA, we must stop buying CDs. If artists list their addresses on their websites, donating directly to them will be easy, too.

OK. I understand what you are saying now. These issues stir up passionate feelings, and it can be hard not to use inflammatory language. I am curious. Have you ever seen the website, dontbuycds.org? What do you think of it? Feel free to email me, rather than making a post the mods might call "off topic."

The BSA actually gets it that paying customers are not thieves, and shouldn't be caled thieves. Unlike the RIAA, and MPAA they are not stupid. To hell with the stupid ones. Don't buy their products.

There are people on the right and the left who completely agree with Phyllis Schlafley on this one, myself included. This isn't about right vs left, it's about right vs. wrong. Copyright law has been perverted. The term, "Intellectual property" is a product of this perversion. Copyright is supposed to be a loan to artists and authors from the public domain, to whom any idea once expressed, belongs. One thing consumers can do to fight back against entertainment robber barons is to refuse to buy their products.

If you bought any of the "copy protected" discs that won't play in your computer, Follow this link to the Milberg Weiss Law firm, and join Dickey V. Universal Music Group et. al, a class action suit against the manufacturers of these defective discs that frequently use the Compact Disc digital audio logo improperly.

That comes off the links page of a consumer group boycotting the recording industry, for DRM, price gouging, and harassment of file traders. Dontbuycds.org A previous poster gave the link to that organization, but not to the class action suit, so , pay attantion mods, this post is not redundant!

If you bought any of the "copy protected" discs that won't play in your computer, Follow this link to the Milberg Weiss Law firm, and join Dickey V. Universal Music Group et. al, a class action suit against the manufacturers of these defective discs that frequently use the Compact Disc digital audio logo improperly.

That comes off the links page of a consumer group boycotting the recording industry, for DRM, price gouging, and harassment of file traders. Dontbuycds.org A previous poster gave the link to that organization, but not to the class action suit, so , pay attantion mods, this post is not redundant!

Indeed! If the disc won't play, it is defective. Take it back, and join the ever-growing boycott of the recording industry. When you take the disc back, demand a cash refund. Remember, the squeaky wheel gets the grease, and the customer is always right.

As reward for the RIAA being named Internet Villain of the Year, Let's all give them a consumer boycott.

Such licences would destroy the first sale principle if they were allowed to stand, but I doubt that they would stand up in court. Even without shrinkwrap licences, don't buy CDs, especially not of Britney Spears.

Amen to that! Read more about it at Dontbuycds.org The recording labels are the real pirates.

156=421? Is this the new math? Even when they are busting real pirates, the RIAA fudges the numbers. Their dishonesty demonstrates that they are a criminal syndicate themselves. Read more about why no consumer should buy their products at dontbuycds.org

156=421? Is this the new math? Even when they are busting real pirates, the RIAA fudges the numbers. Their dishonesty demonstrates that they are a criminal syndicate themselves. Read more about why no consumer should buy their products at dontbuycds.org

If the big labels don't want us making perfect digital copies of their music, and trading them, release it all on vinyl. Digitizing records, and burning them onto CD-R, maintaining sepearate track s is a lot of work! If I could actually get vinyl, which I like the sound of much better than digital, I would have yet another reason not to buy CDs.

Good for you! Don't Buy CDs, except for used ones, which the RIAA and affiliated labels get nothing from.

Amen! Consumers can send a message to the record labels, and the whole entertainment cartel by not buying their products. Voting with our wallets works.

Indeed they are not! No one should buy these or anything from the recording industry. Since sony can tolerate short -term losses in their music division, consumers should boycott all Sony products, and yes, that includes PS2.

We can punish the entertainment industry by not buying their products.

Of course 'not buying their products' alone will not do you much good either - the industry will just cry that CD sales slumped, 'because of pirating' -- and make even more of a push for DRM.

How far can a company possibly alienate their customer base?

We can punish the entertainment industry by not buying their products. We forced software manufacurers to give up copy protection in the Commodore 64 days by not buying the crap, and by cracking the copy protection with programs like renegade and maverick. We can do it again.

Something tells me that even though he hasn't purchased a CD since 1998, he has still obtained some new music.

However, I do agree with dontbuycds.org in that the RIAA is in violation of anti-trust laws.

Good for you. All consumers should join you in not buying CDs. Boycott the recording industry!

Go to mylocalbands.com, go to mp3.com, go to indiepool.com, just don't buy CDs from the major labels affiliated with the RIAA, especially do not buy anything from BMG.

Perhaps a better strategy would be to not buy CDs at all. When Wal-Mart and Best Buy stop wasting shelf space an merchandise that doesn't sell, and the overpriced suburban mall music stores go belly up, the RIAA and affiliated labels will have to pay attention. Boycott the recording industry.

We will have to download these patches covertly from overseas, as they are used to circumvent copy protection, they violate the DMCA. Boycott the recording industry.

It is time for everyone in Europe to boycott BMG, and put them out of business. They will probably try to sell these corrupt CDs to the rest of the world as well, even thoght the article doesn't say so. Any business that presumes its customers are thieves deserves to be out of business. Dont buy CDs, especially not from BMG.

And many of us use a computer as our primary, or only music player. Read more at www.dontbuycds.org

It is more likely that the 23% don't have a computer, and didn't care enough about the question to really answer it. If 77% of the population will boycott the recording industry, Hilary Rosen and the record company executives will be forced to rethink their views.

"Is home taping killing the recording industry? Yes Yes Yes. Instead of making billions and billions of dollars, the music industry is only making billions of dollars." Check out the cartoon I am quoting from at dontbuycds.org. Force the recording industry to change by boycotting their products until they do.

"Is home taping killing the recording industry? Yes Yes Yes. Instead of making billions and billions of dollars, the music industry is only making billions of dollars." Check out the cartoon I am quoting from at dontbuycds.org. Force the recording industry to change by boycotting their products until they do.

The RIAA and affiliated labels are a trust, that is, a network of businesses in the same industry colluding instead of competing. This is illegal, except for Major League Baseball to which Congress has granted an exemption. Since the govenment isn't enforcing anti-trust laws very well there is something consumers can do. Boycott the recording indusrty. Don't buy CDs.