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Mr1337Duck
2003-07-30, 01:15 PM
I'm boycotting the RIAA because of the Internet thing, but I really want the Matrix CDs. The RIAA are a bunch of greedy, corrupt bastards who only care for their own profits, but I want the CDs. What should I do?

Trol
2003-07-30, 01:16 PM
Look for them online?

Squick
2003-07-30, 01:18 PM
If it makes you feel any better the MatrixII cd is horrible...

Go to CDNOW get a song list and download all the files if you hate the RIAA that much. Just don't whine if your name is on a subponea one of these days :eek:

Sputty
2003-07-30, 01:18 PM
Warez = ban

But...do it anyway. If you hate the RIAA go for it.

Mr1337Duck
2003-07-30, 02:27 PM
I'm on my mom's comp, as she lets me use it while mine is broken. My brother, a big Net-Music supporter, has agreed to get everything for me.

SweetTater
2003-07-30, 05:40 PM
Also remember that if you do get the CDs in a free method, you're also denying the artists what miniscule amounts of money they would be getting.

MilitantB0B
2003-07-30, 06:05 PM
Originally posted by SweetTater
Also remember that if you do get the CDs in a free method, you're also denying the artists what miniscule amounts of money they would be getting. The artisits hardly get any money from CD sales. Artists get almost all of their money from concert revenues. Why do you think that a majorioty of the people speaking out are the companies and not the artists? It is almost in the artists best interest for people to rip their music off Kaza. More people hear/like their music, the more people go to their concert.

But that is besides the point. The record labels need to realize that digital medium is here to stay. They need to figure a way to make money while still allowing for the fact that their songs can be transfered to a digital form and spread around the world. How do they do that? Make the CDs free.

Thats right, make them free. They could revamp music stores so that you got a card and you where allowed to take any CD in the place (within reason) and check out, then walk out the door. How would they make their money? Advertisments. Short advertisements in between the songs. I know you guys are probably thinking, but I could just fast forward through the ads. You could, but you could also mute TV commercials, but for some reason people just don't seem to do that. The advertisers would pay money to the record label based upon how many copies the CD sells. In other words, a ad on a Britney Spears CD that goes quadruple platinum would be the equivilent of buying an ad durring the superbowl, while buying an ad on the new Best of Vannila Ice Anthology would be like buying an ad at three in the morning, on the wheather channel.


Another problem solved, by Militant Bob.
:D

Confectrix
2003-07-30, 06:44 PM
To purposfully and with thought contract material for which is copyrighted, without purchasing a license for an issue, is equal to theft.

Mr1337Duck
2003-07-30, 07:00 PM
Wish I had a big problem with ripping off the RIAA, pity I don't.

MilitantB0B
2003-07-30, 08:51 PM
Originally posted by Confectrix
To purposfully and with thought contract material for which is copyrighted, without purchasing a license for an issue, is equal to theft. Indeed, I was not justifing the pirating of music, just saying that the music companys need to realize they aren't going to stop it, so they might as well make money off it.

Strygun
2003-07-30, 08:52 PM
Originally posted by Sputty
Warez = ban

Squeeky
2003-07-30, 09:18 PM
Originally posted by Trol
Look for them online?