OT: Recording Industry Ripoff

[Hunpecked]

Imperator Fyron writes: "Who said anything about regulatory action?"

1. 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." I suspect he was only semi-serious (outlaw greed?), but there it is.

2. Baron Munchausen: "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." Response to Atrocities.

3. Imperator Fyron: "Which is precisely why downloaded songs should have an upper cap of 50 cents...". Vague, could be interpreted as a voluntary cap (though that might be illegal price fixing), but could also be interpreted as regulatory.

4. Imperator Fyron: "Who said anything about regulatory action ?"

5. Hunpecked: In the post Fyron replied to. Historically, regulation always starts with complaints, and this isn't the only place I've seen complaints like these. I just thought it was worth pointing out that some remedies can be worse than what they're intended to "fix".

With that in mind, let's get back to the griping.

[narf poit chez BOOM]

Wrong topic.

[Fyron]

I figured AT was being sarcastic. BM, yeah, guess he did mention it, though apparently I forgot about it. I wasn't talking about government regulation of any sort, just better pricing schemes from the industry itself.

Voluntary reformating of business models tends to start with griping as well.

Will, while physical CDs might be a few dollars more expensive than downloaded albums today, the labels want to change this and make them cost the same, as they did 2 years ago. Hopefully Apple can keep the lower prices with at least one label...

[Hunpecked]

With regard to volluntary reform, one can always hope.