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The world has yet to see any independantly-proven facts that the actors are loosing millions because joe blow and his 10 friends decided to download an album from the net.
I dont know how the RIAA can take it upon themselves to release figures of sales that COULD HAVE happened, vs. those that actually did.
Did anybody see any decline in the number of movies or music released this year as opposed to the number of movies released 5 years ago? Clearly if they have been loosing millions for a number of years, the artist's could not possibly afford to make music anymore, is this not true?
And when I pay $20+ to see a movie at a theatre, why do they still need to tell me file-sharing is bad? I already paid didn't I ?!
Now please consider this scenario, tomorrow the RIAA/MPAA suddenly vanish, they go out of bussiness because they didn't get their billions that they didnt loose in the first place. Can anybody here tell me that they truly believe you would never see another movie EVER made again? Do you not think another bussiness model would emerge that would feed off of the technology right now? Would there really be no more funding for movies/music, this would be basically the end and last era of all known forms of electronic entertainment? I highly doubt that.
Movies and music was made, produced, and listened to long before any of these multi-billion dollar organizations decided to charge people for their "service". And what has the RIAA done for YOU lately? Not the artist, I specifically mean "YOU" - when have they done something positive for the community? Do you really think an artist cannot get its work out to the masses through other means? With so many possibilities now, artists are choosing the apple's ipod alternative, or going solo without the need for music labels.
Since the artist's get only a small FRACTION of the profits from the sales, and the RIAA gets the biggest chunk of the money, who stands to loose more, the RIAA or the artists? Yea I thought so.
I dont know why people are fighting so much to defend organizations that feel like they have a service for us that we actually dont need. You pay them, then someone thinks they pay them too much - they try alternatives, and they are thrown in jail, why do people get thrown in jail and fined? Because the RIAA has alot of income from people who dont see the real picture.
The RIAA provides us with a service that we dont need, yet we pay for it. Who on here can raise their hand and say they have been introduced to any of their favourite music artists because of the RIAA? I doubt the number would be high. I didnt like the music I was offered, I looked elsewhere, and I found what I liked - yet the RIAA would love to throw me in jail, because I didnt take the path that they had layed out for me with the money that they took from YOU.
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