Music Industry fails to stop illegal downloads

User Comments: 32

1. December 25, 2005 3:10 AM
   Phantasm66 said:
   I've found some great remixes of other artist's work on the Net, some of which has been even better than the originals - all done by amateurs at home.
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2. December 25, 2005 5:14 AM
   spike said:
   ...which the RIAA would no doubt consider illegal, eh P66?Me, I'm with the sampling arguement. The law can say what it likes - that doesn't make the law right. Sometimes, the law is an ass.
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3. December 25, 2005 5:53 AM
   otmakus said:
   The record companies are fighting a losing battle. They hope to scare people from downloading musics by suing people left and right, but that strategy will only backfire. Their team of lawyers facing a 12 years old girl in court is the worst PR they can get.
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4. December 25, 2005 7:09 AM
   Crofty74 said:
   The knee jerk reaction from the industry has been disgraceful, they were slow to embrace digital music and they paid the price for that and they should have taken it like a man, isntead they spat their dummies out.On embracing Digital Music there is still a huge failing, the one price suits all plan, format wars between Apple and... well everyone else and the introduction of agressive protection on physical formats.Top that of with sueing one man and his dog for piracy which I feel the industry has created for themselves by not embracing it to any great effet - still, and the industry isnt anyones favourite act at the minute - including artists.I lack any sympathy for the industry because its their failing basically and probably sums up what Im trying to say.
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5. December 25, 2005 7:24 PM
   Kaleid said:
   I see a rather bleak future with most software having DRM, you've gotta understand that the lobbying from RIAA and their counterparts for the movie industry must be rather heavy. They spend billions and billions and dollars to get what they want and eventually they'll reach it.The result will be a society where big brotherism is simply just accepted as a fact, not just something that might come.
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6. December 26, 2005 8:13 AM
   Phantasm66 said:
   [b]Originally posted by vigilante:[/b][quote]Yes they tried *ehem*sony*ehem*. And look what an outrage it caused.Fact is people want their music on their PC, at home, work, on their laptop, media player, walkman, whatever. They want the music free to use on any device. No "secret" software installed to get the music to work. No proprietary programs to have to play it. No limits on listening. No "check in check out". No blocking of doing things with it.It's like in anything, if you tell people they can't have something, the good people will obey, the bad will find another way.Just like trying to take guns out of society. All the law abiding citezens won't have them, all the criminals still will.They would be better off not spending how many millions of dollars trying to create "anti"copy music. And instead charge less for CDs and pay the musicians less. No kidding, pay the entertainers less, and we'd have cheaper movies, cheaper DVDs and VHS, cheaper CDs, cheaper concert tickets etc...but a dream...[/quote]That's a great post.
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7. December 27, 2005 9:16 AM
   brownpaper said:
   The music industry is out of touch. All the sueing of college students and senior citizens only makes them more hateable. There are a lot of underground music on the internet and that is something that the music industry does not understand. They are to used to that cookie-cutter album profit formula that they are falling behind the times. Perhaps, they are too late and are struggling to recover their perceived monopoly on music.
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