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Music Industry Compared to Movie Industry
tgibson writes "The Denver Post has an article comparing the missteps of the recording industry to the movie industry's success with DVDs: 'The best-selling "Chicago" movie soundtrack is available on CD starting at $13.86. The actual movie, with the soundtrack songs included, of course, plus additional goodies ranging from deleted musical numbers to the director's interview and a "making-of" feature, can be had for precisely $2.12 more...'"
RIAA: Evil group of people with no morals, who are currently hated by 99% of /.
MPAA: Not the RIAA.
I think that says something.
When you don't have a leg to stand on, don't even get up.
Why waste your money when you can watch it for free on broadcast TV a few years later?
one decent justin timberlake song
uh huh right and I'll find that along with element 118, cold fusion and bigfoot, and non-buggy M$ products.
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Well said.
This article was brilliant.
If only the music industry was smart enough to listen to it. However I imagine that they'll be closing their eyes and ears hoping that suing the people they wish were customers will make all the bad times go away.
Poor bastards...
N.
"Nothing strengthens authority so much as silence." - Charles de Gaulle
Now, if you'd just be so kind as telling me the CD's you've downloaded, erase them from your hard drive, throw away your burned CDs and give me a written confession that you won't do it again and I'll forget about what you just said. ;)
The problem with CDs is that you usually pay for one song you want to and 15 others you're not interested in.
Stop liking crap artists then.
I don't suppose anyone out there could persuade the Canadian government to annex Australia, could they?
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One god, one market, one truth, one consumer.
Do you, for one, welcome your new Canadian overlords?
"But I trust in the people's capacity for reflection, rage and rebellion." -Oscar Olivera
Yeah, cause clearly DVDs currently have no problem of the sort cough and the difference between read-only and read/write takes a mind of staggering genius to understand. Fluff.
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Remember that the MPAA was implicitly complicit in purchasing the Digital Millenium Copyright Act from Congress. I hear they got it for a song.
;))
They brought in Celin "Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaai will alwaaaaaaaaaaaaaais luuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuv juuuuuuuuuuuu" Dion and got it for not singing a song. (Pardons to any fans out there. You have my sympathies
Kjella
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CDs first came out around when I started college in 1984. You could only buy them new, and they cost at least $13. All of the news articles claimed that the high price (about twice an album cost) was because there were only a few factories in the world making the things, but the price would go down soon. I bought an average of one CD a week.
In 1989, the prices still hadn't come down, but I started seeing widespread sales of used CDs. I bought everything used. Aside from a new CD I bought in 1999, the labels haven't seen a penny direct from me since 1989.
In 1999, the prices of CDs still hadn't caught down, but I started downloading music, making MP3s, ripping my friends CDs, and doing direct hard-drive exchanges of MP3s.
It's 2003 -- 19 years since I started college -- and the price of CDs is about the same as it ever was. Two months ago, I finally bought a CD burner of my own -- a 52X -- so I can make my own CDs. I got it for ten dollars after the rebate.
If they can't get those damned facories built by now to significantly lower the price of CDs, they deserve to go out of business.
Remember: when you pirate MP3s..
Whitney Dione, Celine Houston, who can tell them apart? And the Backstreet Boys vs NSync... is NSync the band where the tough one wears the bandana, or is it that sensitive angsty one? Personally I spend my money on cds from the pop amalgem sensation Boy George Michael Jackson Browne Vs Board Of Education, he rocks!
- First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then ???, then profit.
Yes, but their primary role for some time has been peace-keeping.
Whoops, sorry. Forgot about the language barrier. For you Americans:
peace ['pEs] noun. 1 : a state of tranquillity or quiet: as a : freedom from civil disturbance b : a state of security or order within a community provided for by law or custom , 2 : freedom from disquieting or oppressive thoughts or emotions, 3 : harmony in personal relations, 4 a : a state or period of mutual concord between governments b : a pact or agreement to end hostilities between those who have been at war or in a state of enmity, 5 -- used interjectionally to ask for silence or calm or as a greeting or farewell
The theatre I go to has a picture out front of a pirate and talks about no pirates allowed. So a friend and I (while inebriated) dressed up as pirates and tried to get in. While using every pirate phrase we could ("Ahoy there bonnie lass, give us some tickets for the 9 o'clock showing or you'll not live to see another day") we got our way in and were able to see a movie! We asked a guy why pirates weren't allowed, that we felt it was disciminatory, and the guy just shook his head and said "No, the other kind of pirate." I still have no idea what he means by that.
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Oddly enough, this Friday, September 19, is International Talk Like a Pirate Day. Sounds like you and your friend should be celebrating.