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RIAA Co-Opts More Universities
southpolesammy writes "The Register reports that six more US Universities and colleges have agreed to enter into protection schemes with the RIAA. In short, several institutions have signed deals with the RIAA's lapdog, the Napster music service, to 'goad these schools toward becoming music brokers'. The underlying threat of being sued by the RIAA if they don't pay them off is almost certainly the driving force behind their acceptance of this scheme. And of course, there's the ever-present gag order they'll probably enforce on these new universities as well. Great business model guys. Way to engender yourselves to your biggest customer base."
"Great business model guys. Way to engender yourselves to your biggest customer base."
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA it is actually a GREAT business model when NO ONE in the country other than a few liberal-do-nothing-singers and power-posting-high-karma-slashdotters are the only ones who seem to give a rats ass.
That may be a bit of a troll statement there, but honestly, I aksed my cousin (18) who just bought a Britney Spears Album what she thought - and she shrugged and said she didn't care. I asked my coworker who just bought an OutKast album (33) and she replied that she buys CD's all the time and thinks downloading music should be citationable. I asked my friend (24) who just downloaded Modest Mouse's album and he said "yeah that's fucked up shit man - want a hit?"
As a society we are allowing a select few old ass neophytes decide on the laws of our country and VERY FEW are actually doing ANYTHING ABOUT IT.
So unless YOU are gonna get OFF YOUR ASS, and do something other than POST on slashdot about how you hate the RIAA then STFU and STOP COMPLAINING.
Maybe the answer should be solved using that amendment we almost have taken away...you know...the RIGHT TO BEAR ARMS!
Ave Molech Setting
" It's lucky for Napster that the RIAA picked it as a henchman. Students can now download as many songs as they like while enrolled at a university. This is a nice service if holding onto to your tunes is not important. Once their four years at school are over, the students are cut off from Napster and lose all the music they've download. That is unless they pay 99 cents per song or $10 per album to own a permanent download that can be burned onto CDs or MP3 players."
It seems to me that a lot of people won't settle for any thing less than free-as-in-beer music downloads. The article goes out of its way to vilify the RIIA and Napster.
Students get to download all they want and if they like a song enough to want to keep it permanently they pay less than a buck! I don't like the RIIA any better than anyone else but that's a good deal!
It seems to me that we keep talking about changing the way music is distributed but when a way is provided it just isn't good enough. Let's be fair. If this what the RIIA should do then what?
The race isn't always to the swift... but that's the way to bet!
I agree with that to a point, but do want to bring up the fact that when a CD goes out of print, sometimes it is *VERY* hard to ever find an original copy. I know of quite a few artists that have released CDs that weren't chart-burners and wound up dropping out of print. I'd love to have the CDs, but they are friggin *IMPOSSIBLE* to find. NO record stores in the entire area have the CD. ("Ambition" by Tommy Shaw from Styx is a perfect example) - I was on the "watch list" at no less than 15 records here in the SF Bay Area. The CD was *NEVER* found. Nearly 8 years later, I found a copy on eBay - and paid $90 for it.
You don't have "the right to own a copy" -- you know that, right? If they only made X, and you didn't buy one of them, you don't suddenly gain the right to own it because there are none left...
evil adrian