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RIAA, This Is Earth, Please Come In!
ccnull writes "You might remember George Ziemann as the musician who found his own music banned from eBay because it was recorded on CD-R. Now he's back with a new rant about the RIAA's statistics, which blame piracy for the dire condition of the music industry. What's to blame? Price hikes and fewer titles. The latest rant (including analysis of the RIAA's own data) is mainly circulating by email, here's a readable link. (As an interesting side note, Ziemann says that songs are really just ads for CDs, and thus should be freely traded.)"
Yes. Yes it is different.
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One involes killing people, the other doesn't. Most reasonable people are against killing humans. But then you've got Saddam, Al Qaida, etc, who obviously see things differently and WOULD say that it is fine.
OK, but depriving people of income isn't immoral? Try convincing the world of that one, genius!
Um.. HUH? Why do i, or anybody else, need to explain and provide reasons why you are wrong? Your NOT wrong. You just have your own opinions and moral beliefs, and we are entitled to ours.
So you're saying it's OK for someone to stuff Jews in a gas chamber if they want to? Because well shit, if one is of the opinion that Jews ought to be exterminated, they're entitled to that belief -- and if someone's entitled to a belief, who the hell are you to stop them from following it?
Alot of older people don't like music by Eminem because of the language and the messages in his songs. Alot of the younger generation don't give a shit, and are fine with it. Alot of people find words like bitch, motherfucker, slut, and who knows what offensive. Others do not. Others just think its plain funny
OK, but how does bad language deprive someone of the income to which they are entitled?
evil adrian
* Number of active pirate ships: 0
* Number of CD shipment boats attacked per year: 0
* Number of CDs per boat: 0
* Number of pirates per ship: 0
* Number of parrots per ship (if available): 0
Despite what the RIAA et al would have you beleive, copying music is NOT piracy. Piracy is murder and robbery on the high seas. Piracy is if a group of people armed themselves, charged into a record store, and stole CDs while shooting at employees who tried to stop them. It is unfortunate that most people equate this with now with copyright infringement. The reason people do is decades of the recording industry telling us that copying music is the same as direct robbery and murder.
The music industry (as opposed to the musicians) have no god given right to exist. They have ignored technology and now find that their product has little or no value to their customers. The savy musicians will soon start selling their music directly over the internet and may even find they make more money from that than the disgustingly small percentage they get from the industry.