MEDIAN2k3
THIS IS A 91 HONDA HOW DARE YOU
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join:2002-12-04
Bronx, NY
clubs:  | good riddance
good let them pull the plug and let piracy sky rocket even further, if they cant take the cut they get now then they need to start doing things themselves.
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I AM NOT THE CHICK IN MY AVATAR!!!! - GO YANKEES!!!! |
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PayneEnter
Premium
join:2005-09-11
Oakland, CA | Yes, the plug should be pulled..:D |
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AbBaZaBbA
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join:2002-07-10
Long Beach, CA | I'd like nothing more than to see them hang themselves |
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jwardl
join:2000-08-12
Spring, TX
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MUSIC INDUSTRY DIRECTIONS
1. Take a successful service (an alternative to the traditional business model) and screw it up by demanding more money.
2. Watch sales drop -- BIG.
3. Blame P2P, Apple, phases of the moon, "global warming"... ANYTHING other than accepting personal responsibility and considering that people might have higher priorities for their money than overpriced music.
4. Sue the pants off people and rake in the cash.
5. Repeat.
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Simitar86
@rutgers.edu
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dadkins 
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I love how the music industry says they are not greedy they just want more money. Websters definition to greedy-Excessively desirous of acquiring or possessing, especially wishing to possess more than what one needs or deserves. HAHA stupid music industry. |
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Pz_
join:2001-03-31
Brownsburg, IN
clubs: | reply to jwardl
See, I'm guessing that most people in the music industry would probably be on board with the "global warming isn't real" philosophy.
So number three might not work for them. |
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An iTunes User
@clients.speedfactory | reply to AbBaZaBbA
I agree, let the music industry pull the plug on iTunes.
Once that happens the music industry's stripes will be visible for all to see...a bunch of crooks. |
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averagedude
join:2002-01-30
Mesa, AZ
 ·Cox HSI
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I was wondering how much this could be used as a defence in a copyright violation.
Lawyer to Judge:
"My client tried to follow the law and bought ITunes music, but the RIAA shut them down - Now he is being sued by the RIAA for getting his music elsewhere." |
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dentman42
join:2001-10-02
Columbus, OH
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Some artists are finally starting to market independently on the Internet. This is what the RIAA is afraid of, it's never been about the money even though that's what they claim to try to hide their true motives. The Internet makes it possible, even easy, for new artists to gain exposure and sell their music, the record labels that enslave artists are no longer needed. The labels are desperately trying to prevent the artists from believing this. Watch for them to push for legislation to somehow prevent artists from doing their own promotion/marketing. The reason many artists haven't left their labels and gone indie is because they are still held to their recording contracts - they still owe their labels several more albums. I suspect in the next few years we'll see more artists leaving their labels as they complete their contracts and moving to their own promotion and distribution. Then they can sell for less and still make more without the dead weight middlemen of the labels taking the lion's share of the profits.
The sad thing is, I don't even use P2P for music anymore, for one simple reason - there's not any new music coming out that's even worth the effort to download it, much less the cost of a CD! I've got somewhere around 1000 CDs that I bought before the RIAA started suing P2P users. I've only bought a handful of CDs since then, all either used for from indie labels not affiliated with the RIAA. I can't think of a single album that I want and don't already have (though there are some that I only have on vinyl and would like to see released on CD) |
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Kearnstd
Elf Wizard
join:2002-01-22
Mullica Hill, NJ
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wow all this stuff means that i could get a job as a music exec, because its clear you dont need a degree in business to work in the music industry as an exec. because any college grad with an once of intelligence would know you dont go after a successfull profit venue, then again the RIAA and its members are all run by old people who think the Phonograph is still a hot new invention and wouldnt know the internet if it came up and bit them.
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noglobal
@co.nz
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There is no such thing as global warming.
That is if globabl warming means that industry is creating it.
That's rubbish, it's just part of the natural occurances of the Earth.
I don't believe in globabl warming, but that's because I can think for myself.
Some people just go along with what's in the news, and theres a saying if you say something enough times people will start believing it.
Ice caps melting? Who gives a flying.. |
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Matt9
join:2004-01-29
New Bedford, MA
| Considering that more water is contained in ice caps than in the ENTIRE OCEAN ON THE PLANET, you should give a flying ....
If all the ice caps melted we'd be completely underwater. The entire planet. Everything. Skyscrapers, all of it.
Mile-wide chunks are breaking off. RECORD sized ice caps are breaking off into the ocean. (sizes never before recorded) and ocean levels are slowly rising each year.
If we let that effect snowball and don't do anything NOW...I wouldn't want to be alive in a few generations to see what happens. I'm glad I probably won't live long enough to see it. |
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