The Culture of CD Burning

An anonymous reader points to this "good article from the Boston Globe about the culture of CD burning, and how hard it will be for the RIAA to stop it. Some interesting quotes: 'There's a "sex appeal" to burning CDs, says [Sheryl] Crow, adding that it is a social event for young people, just as listening to 45s was once a social event for their parents.' An interesting one from Hilary Rosen: "I ask them, 'What have you done last week?' They may say they wrote a paper on this or that. So I tell them, 'Oh, you wrote a paper, and you got an A? Would it bother you if somebody could just take that paper and get an A too? Would that bug you?' So this sense of personal investment does ring true with people." Seems like at least one musician thinks his A paper is being peddled all over town.

Comments

This is what she really said...

[infinite9]

Would it bother you if somebody could just take that paper and get an A too?

That should read: Would if bother you if someone copied your paper instead of paying me for the paper I coerced you into giving me?

Re:Stop, thief!

[GMontag]

It makes me wonder, has she heard the flaw in this analogy pointed out, and ignored it? Or has she not had a real conversation with someone who is on the other side of the fence? Or is she trying to deliberately give a shoddy analogy in the hopes it gets by people?


She might think that she has to pay for advice of this quality.

"... a cruel and shallow money trench..."

[Futurepower(R)]

"The music business is a cruel and shallow money trench, a long plastic hallway, where thieves and pimps run free and good men die like dogs. There's also a negative side." -- Hunter S Thompson

I like this quote, but I think that Thompson was a little too positive. Maybe he was having an excessively good day.

Re:1.1 billion CD's doesn't mean 1.1 billion copie

[Eccles]

Lets say you buy a 50 pack of CD's....I might burn 5 music CD's from that.

Get yo hands offa mah CDs!

" That's the weird thing about 'N Sync and its rivals: It's impossible to appreciate their staying power, or fully fathom their genius, right down to the seemingly witless banter, unless they make you want to vomit."
--The Washington Post, 4/23/02

Re:recordable discs outsold CDs for the first time

[Anonymous Coward]

in other shocking news...

paper outsold books.
Authors everwhere are outraged.

-xmod2@toolazytoolookupmypassword.com

So Give Us Something We Can Use

[Greyfox]

Hell lets even forget net distribution for the moment. The technology is where it needs to be so that I should be able to go down to the local music superstore, select a dozen or so tracks I want, burn them to CD and pay a set rate for each track. Likewise, I should be able to, for example, burn all the existing Invader Zim episodes (Commercial free, thank you) to DVD, for a price. The industry won't even meet us that far, and then they whine when we come up with our own solution? The buggy whip manufacturers whined a lot when the automobile industry started to replace them too, and they didn't even have an evolutionary path they could follow to give the consumers what they want.

Sure, some piracy is there because of the price (Only the industry's illegal price fixing to blame for that) but a hell of a lot more of it is simply due to the fact that the consumer can't get what he wants any other way. And the industry is clearly not willing to provide it.

You know what the industry wants, what it really wants? It wants to control your entire listening and viewing experience and it wants each person to pay every time he listens to a song or watches a movie. And they want the $30 up front charge which they insist is just for the media and not for the right to view or listen.

They wonder why their sales figures are dropping. Maybe it's because more people like me are becoming unwilling to pay those greedy pig fuckers a single god damned cent. I can't even remember the last time I bought a new CD for my collection (I don't download MP3s off the net either.) I can remember the last time I went to see a movie; Brotherhood of the Wolf (Sucked, but at least it sucked in French) and Mullholland Drive (Kicked ass) before that. Didn't see Harry Potter. Didn't see LOTR. Probably won't see Attack of the Clones. The industry can blow me!

I'm not inclined to be the least bit sympathetic until those whiney fucks get with the technological program and start offering consumers some choice, and I don't mean "Should I buy the latest Britney Spears album or the latest Backstreet Boys album?" They're here to serve us. Not the other way around.