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RIAA's Nasty Easter Egg
Bruha writes "It appears the RIAA is being very low key about the fact that the five major labels think that 99 cents per song is too cheap, and are discussing a price hike that would increase the tariff to $1.25 up to $2.99 per song. I was a huge fan of the 99c per song, but if they think that they can raise the price on me just because I don't buy full CDs anymore, they've got another thing coming. Suggestion: make good CDs, and maybe I'll buy the whole thing."
How do you expect those people to support their cocaine-sniffing habbits at 99c per song? It's an outrage!
"It's too bad that stupidity isn't painful." - Anton LaVey
This is probably just so that they can increase the amount of money they try to sue people for.
Instead of valuing a track at 99c for piracy values, they value them at $2.99.
I have no sig yet I must scream.
99cents equals 12 dollars for a damn cd as is an that includes NO PACKAGING and NO CD for goodness sake, the RIAA is a cartel...raping and pillaging the listers and musicians...raise the price? how about we STOP BUYING MUSIC. there are lots of great groups for free making money on concerts...ooooh also boycott clear channel...someone start a social movement to take down clear channel
This is slashdot.
/. story, well then that would deserve some modded-up attention-grabbing heads-up for the rest of us ;)
Look at you, you found a slashdot duplicate. And you wonder why you don't have any moderation points?
Had, instead, your discovery was something like, "This slashdot article is NOT a duplicate of a previous story down the page" about a
Cover your eyes and click this link!
It doesn't matter whether the price is $1 or $100, you shouldn't be buying anything from these online stores. Right now record labels are able to use their copyright ownerships to get both consumers and retailers over a barrell. The solution is to buy nothing from these stores until the music labels collapse, at which point bands can start negotiating directly with online distributors, which will mean a fairer price for everybody.