RIAA sueing!?!? I say Rebellion!

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Sep 13 2003, 5:14 am
In response to DarkView
In this case with all the sueing, I agree that morally them sueing is sort of right. Using your example of picking a guy's pocket, the guy doesn't send you into the hospital for a decade, or kill you for that. That one guy just made a simple search engine for searching his campus' network, and the RIAA just took away his life savings. Quite a bit of the anti-RIAA sentiment may come from not being able to share music on things like Kazaa, but much of it IS all pure and good.
Sep 13 2003, 5:24 am
In response to Jon88
If we can't download music for free, I don't get how other people can sell music. Why doesn't the RIAA sue them???
Sep 13 2003, 5:26 am
In response to Kunark
It's not really making much of a difference. The RIAA has been operating under a flawed business model. People WANT to be able to get music online, free or not. There are many that would never buy it, and only get it because it's free, but it's not like more than one or two of them would have bought a CD instead, anyways. Here's a great example. Right after the RIAA started their crackdown and lawsuits downloading of music dropped by 22%. Now you'd think people would buy more CDs.... wrong. The drop in CD sales actually accelerated.

An old press release from apple proves that people are willing to pay for music online. http://www.apple.com/pr/library/2003/may/14musicstore.html
They sold more than 2 million songs in the first 16 days it was open.
Sep 13 2003, 5:28 am
In response to Airjoe
You buy a CD, you don't like it, you sell it to your friend. Same thing with the businesses. Businesses and stuff probably also have deals to buy in bulk, so they get even lower prices.
Sep 13 2003, 5:31 am
In response to Jon88
Oh! I see!
They actually BUY the CD, then upload the songs to their site, then sell the songs.
You're better off buying the CD. CD's go for about 13-17 dollars. If songs go for $0.99, and you buy 13 songs, you're already buying the CD.
Sep 13 2003, 5:33 am
In response to Airjoe
The thing is that you buy the songs that you want. It probably ends up being about the same price as a CD, too.
Sep 13 2003, 8:24 am
Cool, if you make any music, remind to give everyone on BYOND a free copy of the entire collection.
Sep 13 2003, 8:34 am
In response to Jon88
A lot of people download music just to listen to what the artist is like and buy their CDs because of it... that would be a good explanation
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