OT: Recording Industry Ripoff

Xrati · #1 September 21st, 2005, 10:52 AM

Caught a blurb this morning on TV. It mentioned that Apple was blasting the recording industry for being greedy. Something to the effect that they wanted to raise prices from .99 USD for "downloaded" music. Apple was stating that the recording industry was getting greedy and if they raised their prices that piracy would increase. Here we go again!

El_Phil · #2 September 21st, 2005, 11:01 AM

Well of course it could be Apple is increasing their cut (they do make cents per copy if that) and wants to blame someone else, and the record industry is a good target. Or not. :shrug:

As you can buy a CD delivered for �6/7 with no DRM rubbish why would you bother downloading anyway, unless you want just one track off an album or something?

Atrocities · #3 September 21st, 2005, 02:13 PM

Whats bad is that people are moving to moble music devices with huge storeage capacities and the Record Industry sales for cd's has fallen. They "SAY" that he sales are down do to piracy, but the truth is, they are down because people are sick and tired of the same old trash.

The same with hollywood. Movie ticket sales are down and they claim piracy is doing it when in fact people just don't want to spend $30.00 to $50.00 taking the family to crowded theater when they can stay home and pay $20.00 for the DVD. DUhhhhhhhhhhhhh. Also factor in that most of the movies being released these days are TRASH.

I hope Apple can bring a lot of anti-greed presure down upon the record industrie. But those greedy bastards will do what they want. And by doing it, they will have created the very thing they have been claiming has been going on for years. And you know what, they deserve a good spanking.

El_Phil · #4 September 21st, 2005, 02:29 PM

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Atrocities said:
I hope Apple can bring a lot of anti-greed presure down upon the record industrie.

That would be funny. I mean really, really funny. Apple, the company famed for over priced, under speced hardware and forcing people to pay extra for almost any feature gets someone else to stop being greedy. Ohh the irony....

Baron Munchausen · #5 September 21st, 2005, 05:20 PM

Yeah, and what else is new? Corporations learned a long time ago that the best way to make profits is to make the product scarce and then extort the highest possible price from people. The 'Oil Industry' has been shutting down refineries for decades. They haven't built a new one since the 1970s as I recall? Every time some 'accident' closes one of the remaining refineries down for a while, they get to charge huge markups because of the 'tight supply'.

This is just the music industry trying to do the same old thing a bit prematurely. They must think that most people are 'intimidated' enough to have given up on piracy.

El_Phil · #6 September 21st, 2005, 08:03 PM

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Baron Munchausen said:
Yeah, and what else is new? Corporations learned a long time ago that the best way to make profits is to make the product scarce and then extort the highest possible price from people. The 'Oil Industry' has been shutting down refineries for decades. They haven't built a new one since the 1970s as I recall? Every time some 'accident' closes one of the remaining refineries down for a while, they get to charge huge markups because of the 'tight supply'.

I'd like to think that the evil corporation that would actually deliberately kill lots of people for profit only exists in fiction. Given that quite a few of these refinery accidents do kill people (or get damn close and injure large numbers), I hope they are actually accidents.

Renegade 13 · #7 September 21st, 2005, 05:41 PM

Give up on piracy? When it's so easy? Why would people do that? Guess that's what you meant by "premature".

El_Phil · #8 October 3rd, 2005, 07:30 PM

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Xrati said:
Caught a blurb this morning on TV. It mentioned that Apple was blasting the recording industry for being greedy. Something to the effect that they wanted to raise prices from .99 USD for "downloaded" music. Apple was stating that the recording industry was getting greedy and if they raised their prices that piracy would increase. Here we go again!

Hmmmm

Apple is in fact screwing the artists worse than ever. So if the recording industry is greedy, what does that make Apple?

Hypocritical bar stewards I believe.

Fyron · #9 October 3rd, 2005, 07:55 PM

That is a problem with the music labels constantly shafting the artists, not necessarily iTunes... Apply pays the fee to RIAA et all, who then dole it out in small chunks to artists.

El_Phil · #10 October 3rd, 2005, 08:07 PM

No Apple sets its own rates. Look at the original article, you have the head of Warner Music complaining about Apple. Now you may doubt his motives for complaint, but this is Apple shafting the artists. And the writers as well.

No-body in that industry is particularly nice, but at least the rest aren't that hypocritical. Its breath taking.