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Why the RIAA Really Hates Downloads
wtansill recommends the saga of Jeff Price, who traveled from successful small record label owner to successful Internet-era music distributor. His piece describes clearly what the major record labels used to be good for and why they are now good for nothing but getting in the way. "Allowing all music creators 'in' is both exciting and frightening. Some argue that we need subjective gatekeepers as filters. No matter which way you feel about it, there are a few indisputable facts -- control has been taken away from the 'four major labels' and the traditional media outlets. We, the 'masses,' now have access to create, distribute, discover, promote, share and listen to any music. Hopefully access to all of this new music will inspire us, make us think and open doors and minds to new experiences we choose, not what a corporation or media outlet decides we should want."
RIAA lurves teh_frust post!
nothing to see here.. move along
Music is mostly for adolescents. Eventually you'll grow out of it, like the rest of us over-30s.
i see music collections that dwarf my 50000 song collection all the time on IRC. i leech the snot out of servers often time forcing the owners to place a daily limit on their server due to my consistant downloading. i used to share files, and was temporarily denied internet access from my ISP, when they got a notice from the RIAA requesting my server be shut down. basically what i'm trying to say is that it doesn't matter THAT much to record companies when 1, 10, 100, 100,000 people download music illegally. they are sill making profits. they are still selling hundreds of millions of albums every year. if i was rich, i would buy all these albums, or at least most of them. for now, i am going to stick with my illegal downloading, and the bands that i really do like, i will continue to go see them LIVE and hear them as it is TRULY intended.