Supreme Court decision

[cjjackson85 5,000+ posts]

I agree that essentially 'stealing' music does hurt the industry and all the peripherals that go along with it to a degree. But the industry at large is pricing itself into a slowly-approaching oblivion if things don't change to a fairly drastic degree. Something akin to my belief that free-agency is proving very detrimental to professional sports slowly but surely.
However, not every area has a Best Buy handy to get those new releases for $12.99~$14.99 the day they come out. And aside from pricing concerns what about rural areas whose only real outlet for new music is their local Wal-Mart? I absolutely refuse to buy music from Wal-Mart anymore as all they carry are the edited versions of those artists that they will still, in fact, carry. I am old enough to decide for myself what I can/can't or should/shouldn't listen to and I'm responsible enough to make those same decisions for the kids - I don't need the largest retailer on the planet making those decisions for me.

The music industry isn't doing anything to particularly endear itself to the average consumer and I certainly have no difficulties seeing how the various P2P networks have become so widespread. Napster eventually lost it's fight. How many completely free networks have sprung up to take up where Napster left off? Kazaa, WinMX, BearShare, the list goes on and on.

Regardless of the individual's feelings about file sharing it isn't going to go away anytime in the foreseeable future, I wouldn't think. Good or bad, right or wrong, human nature dictates that if there's a way to cheat easily accessible then that road will be taken by more than a few. Just an inescapable fact of life.

^Nice cut & paste...

 

[Prowler573 5,000+ posts]

Umm...cut and paste of WHAT, exactly, CJ??

 

[Brock 5,000+ posts]

The thing is that when you buy a cd in the store YOU are getting cheated! Did you know that for major releases each cd costs about $0.25 to produce...with about the same amount from each sale going to the artist! Industry musicians are not making money from cd sales, the record companies are. This is why musicians tour, collect advances, and collect royalties, because that is the majority of their pay...not the amount of records they sell.

When it comes down to it, I have no problem ****ing over the music industry because the way I see it music is music, not an industry. I will pay money to support artists I like, but then again, the artists I like wouldnt mind me bootlegging their music because 99 times out of 100, thats how they got to where they are today in the first place.

 

[its_bacon12 10+ year member]

The thing is that when you buy a cd in the store YOU are getting cheated! Did you know that for major releases each cd costs about $0.25 to produce...with about the same amount from each sale going to the artist! Industry musicians are not making money from cd sales, the record companies are. This is why musicians tour, collect advances, and collect royalties, because that is the majority of their pay...not the amount of records they sell.
When it comes down to it, I have no problem ****ing over the music industry because the way I see it music is music, not an industry. I will pay money to support artists I like, but then again, the artists I like wouldnt mind me bootlegging their music because 99 times out of 100, thats how they got to where they are today in the first place.

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[squeak9798 5,000+ posts]

The thing is that when you buy a cd in the store YOU are getting cheated! Did you know that for major releases each cd costs about $0.25 to produce...

And Nike shoes cost about the same to produce, since they are paying 8yr olds $2 per month in some 3rd world country. How many people in here wear/have worn Nike shoes?

It's a little hypocritical to use that as an excuse, when using the same methodology, you overpay for almost everything else in life.

 

[T9X 10+ year member]

*watches pirated Soil - Halo music video*

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[buckyskeez 10+ year member]

*watches pirated Soil - Halo music video*
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eh? is that the name of the video?