OT: Recording Industry Ripoff

[TurinTurambar]

narf poit chez BOOM said:
Yes, I did mean legal.

http://www.mperia.com/

... if you create a user-account (no charge) and browse around a bit, you can even sign up for them to tell you when new stuff comes out that you might like, or new stuff is available from a band you've found that you want to keep track of. Lots of great stuff there.

[Atrocities]

We should outlaw greed and regulate the Recording industry. Any proofit over X amount would go to the Federal coffers to help pay for computers in every house hold.

[El_Phil]

The response to that is "Meanwhile, back in communist Russia."

[Atrocities]

El_Phil said:
The response to that is "Meanwhile, back in communist Russia."

ORDER TO THE KGB: Citizan El_Phil is to be arrested for treason!

[El_Phil]

In other news AT was awarded a 'Hero of the Soviet Union' medal for his tireless work against capitalism. In true Homo sovieticus fashion he was modest "I just hate the bastards and want to see them all working in the salt mines. This medal is not for me, it's for the people."

[Atrocities]

Power to the people baby.

[Baron Munchausen]

Atrocities said:
We should outlaw greed and regulate the Recording industry. Any proofit over X amount would go to the Federal coffers to help pay for computers in every house hold.

What about the artists? Shouldn't the people who create the product get some of the proceeds? I'd support a mandatory percentage of the profits being given to the artists before I'd support some sort of 'windfall profits tax' on the music industry.

[narf poit chez BOOM]

Music people need unions.

[Atrocities]

Baron Munchausen said:

What about the artists? Shouldn't the people who create the product get some of the proceeds? I'd support a mandatory percentage of the profits being given to the artists before I'd support some sort of 'windfall profits tax' on the music industry.

The record company signs the artists, refines their material, and then market the music. What do the artists do? They write the songs, in most cases, record the songs, make a video, and sit back and collect $0.006 per every album sold. They might go on tour where they make some fair bank but otherwise they struggling to make ends meat like the rest of us in the face of super greedy corporations. So ya, if the above quoted sarcasm of mine were ever to come to pass, then sure, a larger chuck of the Record industries profits should go to the people who actually create the music we love.

The point is the greedy bastards at the top have always gotten the money while the poor fools doing the work get the shaft and the stupid saps buying the product pay the bill.

Greed is what its all about. Hell look at the black music artists and how bad the record industry stroked those poor saps. The black music artists of the US should get together and have the NAACP sue the record industry for all the royalties they have stolen over the years from the black musicians of America. I would support such an action because it would be the right thing to do. Then go after them for all the money they ripped off of other artists.

The record industry has made bank ripping off artists and consumers for years. The P2P issue isn't really an issue so much as it’s a movement. People want access to older music that is no longer being sold. They want access to specific songs without having to buy ten songs that they do not want. If I were the Record industry I would embrace P2P and make it work for me. Right now they are treating it as the enemy and not the future cash cow that it could be.

They are in a nutshell blind, ignorant, narrow-minded, short sided, fools.