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RIAA Sales Compared to Download Statistics
OneInEveryCrowd writes "According to an article at SFGate, although the recent crackdown and lawsuits have caused a 22% drop in downloading, the drop in CD sales actually accelerated during the same period. My own response to the RIAA crackdown was to get a Netflix account, get into fansubs, and swear off CD purchases for life. If this was mainstream behavior CD sales would have dropped to zero. I was still pleased to see that many people responded in a similar fashion though." An EMI executive has a piece giving the standard industry view, but this piece about Universal slashing CD prices may be more telling.
>>I wouldn't piss on Lars Ulrich's head
>>if he was on fire.
Would you piss on his leg if he'd just been bitten by a jelly-fish?
I ask because while it's unlikely the piss would put out the fire (and therefore wouldn't do much good), it would actually relieve (and help heal) the jellyfish sting.
I know because last week when I was surfing in the Hotep Funnel off Hawaii, I got stung by a jellyfish. It hurt like nothing I'd ever felt before. Like a raw, steel bitch of hurt.
Anyway, I make it back to the beach, see the medic, and he tells me, "Tucker, find a guy to piss on it."
On what?
"That," says the medic, pointing to red, stinging wound.
I ask him if he's kidding, and he tells me no, it's no joke. It's no urban legend. "You gotta find someone willing to piss on it."
"Go ahead then," I tell him.
"Not me," says the medic. "I just went."
So after a bit of back and forth, the medic agrees to locate a volunteer. Fifteen minutes later, he comes walking back with a guy who introduces himself as 'Willy Struggle.'
Are you joking? What kind of a name is Willy Struggle?
"You want I should piss on you or jabber?"
Okay, I say. You're right. Go ahead.
And he does. He takes a long, slow piss on the sting. The medic watches. After it's all over, he asks me how I feel.
Better, I say. It's true. It felt a *lot* better.
True story.