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Well, if the artists would make great 10 or so songs on their cd's, instead of maybe one or two, maybe the people would buy more of them. Instead of just trying to d/l their favorite song off of the album, they would go to their music stores and buy the newly reduced in price cd chock full of good stuff. But I haven't bought a cd in such a long time, I really don't know the quality of the music. I'm not buying because I'm d/l the crap out of the songs, I just don't have the interest right now in buying music. In my current lifestyle, I just don't have much time to play cd's. I like listening to talk radio at work, and I don't have a cd player in my car. I have a part-time job on the weekends, but unless I buy stock in Everready or DuraLast, there's no electrical outlet to plug my player in. So teh RIAA can go kiss my @$$.

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Kazaa has apparently recovered actual copies of their program that have been altered and then redistributed by the RIAA to monitor traffic and they are now suing the RIAA for tampering with their 'intellectual property'!

Mwahahahahahaha!

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<font size="2" face="sans-serif, arial, verdana">And there is ANOTHER sore spot! How about all these albums by different Groups/singers labeled, "Best Of (fill in a group name)", yet if you take a look at the songs on any such album, you will often note many of the songs are NOT their best. They are just fillers that never even made the Billboard top 100. That's just misleading advertising. THAT grabs my crotch hairs!

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<font size="2" face="sans-serif, arial, verdana">And there is ANOTHER sore spot! How about all these albums by different Groups/singers labeled, "Best Of (fill in a group name)", yet if you take a look at the songs on any such album, you will often note many of the songs are NOT their best. They are just fillers that never even made the Billboard top 100. That's just misleading advertising. THAT grabs my crotch hairs! </font><hr /></blockquote><font size="2" face="sans-serif, arial, verdana">Ouch. maybe you should get some cream for that?! As far as the previously unheard songs on teh best of albums, I have to agree. Although occassionally the unheard of before song is good, I don't know if it should be on a "best of" album. When I do buy albums, I tend to buy the best of ones instead of trying to collect all of the previous albums of a group or artist. There are some exceptions. I have most, if not all, of Pink Floyd, The Eagles and Led Zeppelin albums, and I still buy the best of. To me, it's just easier to have one album with all of the songs I like than to look through 4 or 5 albums to find those songs.

[ December 19, 2003, 20:44: Message edited by: gregebowman ]

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Thus the beauty of writable CDs. Pick your favorite songs from your music collection and make your own CDs with just those on them. Perfectly legal (assuming you own the CDs you copied the songs from, of course). http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon7.gif

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We all have nothing to worry about just so long as we all fill out the form.

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The RIAA is using scare tactics and mis-information to justify its actions.

There is no way they can claim that there are over a billion songs being downloaded and swapped on P2P networks. That is an utterly absurd statement based on statistical probabilities and witch craft.

The RIAA is full of fat assed over paid lawyers who decided to branch out from defending insurance companies to suing 11 year old girls and their grand mothers out of their life savings.

Besides, 75% of all music swapped on any P2P network is mostly older music that is difficult if not impossible to find.

The RIAA should focus on filling the void, that is they should start to license on line music shops and allow them the start selling music, all music and not just old crap but new music as well, on line for 25 cents a song for older songs, and more for newer ones.

The record company is either blind or incredibly stupid for not taking advantage of the internet and the market that is currently still devoid of having what it needs to explode into a multi billion dollar market.

In my perfect world, everyone would have access to everything at a reasonable price. There would be no need for song swapping on a P2P network for any song could be obtain for pennies. In my perfect world, all RIAA lawyers, along with their masters from the Record Companies would be lined up against a wall and shot as an example to all others company CEO's who might try and claim financial injuries where non exist.

[ December 20, 2003, 00:09: Message edited by: CNCRaymond ]

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A fair system cannot exist while the RIAA and the record companies are still around. Nothing but the complete dissolve of the recording industry and a complete reconstruction will save music.

They business model that they have been using has been refined, tweaked, and crafted to funnel the most money to the RIAA and the labels. Artists receive little, if anything from CD sales.

When you have money (heaps and heaps of it) and it just keeps coming, and then it stops, your going to be angry and fight to restore your way of life.

They see a threat to their income, so they're doing anything they can to stop it. It's much easier to fight to keep the old system alive then it would be to make a new, fair system. But fair means that the artists would get paid, so you can bet there will be some pissed off CEOs (and lawyers too).

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<font size="2" face="sans-serif, arial, verdana">that's hilarious. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon10.gif

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http://www.astmod.com/riaa.PNG

LOL