I don't think its that black and white, tape got overruled by cd's because of the quality and the characteristic of selecting any track you want at the touch of a button, don't think normal cd's will die that easily EDIT: this is my opinion not a fact

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That's what you get for downloading crappy music with some crappy Kazaa, and even paying for it. LOL! And so what if she's 12, are you allowed to do illegal stuff then? What? Oh, she didn't know you weren't allowed to do it. That's ok then. Can I use that when someone wants to sue me? "I didn't know it was illegal to download copyrighted songs or movies." "Oh, sorry then, nevermind." Still feel kinda sorry for the poor girl.

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actually there was a audit done by some guy and he pointed out the following issues the RIAA can't find answers for

Yes sales are down..but compared with what
The Big 5 have been releasing less music titles than before...hence selling less...I'm sure the goofballs at the RIAA read boards like this. YOU RELEASE LESS = LESS SALES

Also they have been so busy paying lawyers and other ppl to sue the asses off ppl....they have forgot to adequately promote and market their artists effectively. Let's face it, if the music is good, more people are going to buy cd's...you keep putting out crap...no one buys it. Personally I love to buy cd's and my cd library is quite big but the RIAA's tactics are beginning to piss me off. What a way to piss off your buyers

Also they paid fines (the big 5) about cd price fixing and lord knows how much money they made during that time. Now cd sales are down and they completely blame mp3's...but the market conditions are very different from a few years ago. I just laugh at this because if it was not for MP3's....then I would not be addicted to trance and electronic music and general and would have not bought the amount of cd's and gone to see the amount of artists that I did. I've spent a few thousand over the last 4-5 yrs on this...so I think mp3's are great because how many ppl did not know about trance and got mp3's from europe and sets and to hear deejays who now play here all the time and basically owe their existance to mp3's.

One last thing to leave with....do you realize that in early 1997..the Big 5 music companies had a meeting where new technology was discussed and mp3's were brought up and they could have jumped on the bandwagon and made a FORTUNE!...beyond our thinking....but they passed and now are trying to play catch up to an form of technology that has left them in the dust and gasping for air. Also they suffered from what most big companies suffer from (mainly the big 3 auto makers)....they did not want to change and did not give the public what it wanted and got destroyed....blame mp3's..i still think they have helped...and for all the RIAA goofballs that are reading the boards trying to gauge public reaction and formulate strategy...1)KISS MY ASS 2)You got left in the dust 3)adapt.

great observations Toronotrance. u've made a lot of great and new points.

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3000 dollars a song is a lot, i would have to declare bankrupcy and get a million dollar loan

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I'd burn all my legit cd's in a fire pit...tape it and send it to them....SEE WHAT YOU MADE ME DO....YOU BASTARDS!

3000 a song...i bet they paid artists much less than that....and are making profit.

RIAA is a cartel, because the companies part of it have ilegally agreed to charge the same for cds (that is, to charge more that would be charged without this cartel).

The american government failed to stop the cartel, partly because of heavy lobby (lobby is sometimes equal to legal bribes).

So that left the ppl having to pay higher prices for music just to fill the pockets of a few. That is not only unfair, but unconstitutional.

zzl.


Btw, sorry for the sp. and gr.

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but we have more power than they do

we can refuse to buy their products and that normally wakes up the company but not in this case..only ones making a fortune outta this...are the corporate lawyers charging huge hourly rates and all this money comes from somewhere...probably have big losses then blame mp3's. But consumer decides...you don't like it....don't buy cd's..then again...i suggest you don't download them either...spend yer coin elsewhere...like helping yer community.....and use yer time to volunteer to help others.

Everyone should stop buying albums from the BIG 5. Boycott for say, 2 weeks much less a month, and we would see how down on their knees they (the corporations involved) would be. The record industry in America should adapt imo. I think the only way artists will make money in the future is by live shows, and the music be for free . And if the artist is good, his or her show will sell. Just my 2cp.

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^^-- agreed. that would also help de-populate the world of all these awful MTV pop and punk bands... ugh.

well the less people listening to good music...means the less commercialized it gets.

if i were the RIAA:

partner up with Microsoft and promote WMA format. Create a free napster-esque peer to peer network run by the RIAA. The only catch is that every tune can only be downloaded in CRAP quality, and i'm talking like shit, dog shit, so shitty that u can't put it in ur wannabe Global Underground mix 'cus the quality is so shitty. Now, if anyone wants a song in higher quality, bam, pay $1 and u get it in TOP 1million kbps quality packaged in a small size (from wma encoding). any problems with this? (besides hackers who will somehow find a way to get top tunes for free )

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