Movies, on the other hand… Well, I just pirate those all.

They might as well go down to the slums and ask what those people think…
or they can start a real survey and not insult us and ask people with master degree’s.

If I lost a file due corrupted media. I can always refer back to the internet and download them off these lovely users.

i finally found a place i belong

/weep

Actually over the past few years, most major retailers have dropped DRM from their online music stores. Microsoft is a notable exception.

Well, think about this.. How immoral and stupid is it to pay for music which limits itself on what and which devices it can be played on.

Music, or any digital content for that matter, isn’t worth paying for if you can’t play it on whatever device is available to you at the time. Not all, but most pay-to-down load content has some form of proprietary DRM embedded in it. Which can, and usually does limit how and on what device it will work on.

;)

There is no need for them.
You can promote yourself on the net and there’s thousands of small record labels to chose from or you can start your own.

And if BRIEN and others don’t manage to the destroy the net, sooner or later there will be websites which literally millions of songs for sale from all different styles. Its already starting – just needs to get really good.

I saw an advert on the tv the other day, advertising some bitches number one debut single. With the Riaa and others out the way, there will be none of that. I hope

Instead it will be look for your own music and get 20 tracks instead of one for the same price.

That’s what I’m looking for and I do need it as well, normally I have to wait a few weeks to get less popular tracks because they don’t spread as quick on p2p.

I rarely buy DVD’s, the only DVD’s I would consider buying are National Geographic and Shakespeare productions, most of the shite being ushered out of hollywood is regurgitated crap, same theme’s, good guy gets bad guy after a car chase with lots of “boom bang” crap, it’s just bubble gum for the mind, not worth collecting.

yeah and Shakespeare has none of the comparable scenarios eh?

you sir are a snob

Well, duh.

It’s like they are asking:

Draw the line passing through a given point. And unless you draw that very like which they have drawn you will not get any marks. Don’t they have any mathematics department in Duke Univ.?

I will never again buy a CD without listening to it thoroughly first, so how can I try music before I buy ?, *drum roll*, The internet, I have sampled hundreds of songs and not been driven to buy any of it as it doesn’t appeal to me, in the old days I would have had to purchase those hundreds of songs which means that I would have hundreds of CD’s that would be gathering dust, thank heavens for “try before you buy”.

Three cheers for the Internet and the downfall of a captive, immoral and archaic business model.

Let’s take a look at American Capitalism…
Going back in time, when monopolies ran the country, that’s pretty much how business worked. Person A makes a new invention that changes life, everyone copies it.

When Holiday Inn was established, the owner, Kemmons Wilson created a hotel that was above the rest, driving mom & pop motels out of business. When other companies caught wind of Holiday Inn’s success they copied the format. Today we have not only Holiday Inn, but Best Western, Days Inn, Howard Johnson, Ramada, etc.

The same happened with fast food (Mc Donald’s success led to Burger King, Wendy’s Carl’s Jr. /Hardees, Jack in the Box, White Castle, Krystal, Chick-fil-A, etc)

Even Wal-Mart’s success led to Target and Meijer gaining popularity.

Bringing this back to the Internet and filesharing, how many copies of Chuck Norris Facts can you find on the Internet? How about Star Wars Kid parodies and copies? What about Never Gonna Give You Up? The way most viral memes spread is through sharing, whether it happens through a torrent, 4Chan, or YouTube. When you attempt to distribute a meme, you have to rely on word of mouth and sharing in order for it to gain popularity and notoriety. Let’s take an in-depth look at Star Wars Kid, which is the most popular viral video of all time! The video itself was taken and distributed without permission. As a result, the person in the video is pretty much an Internet celebrity. Even though the subject of the video didn’t want to be seen swinging a golf club around like a lightsaber in front of hundreds of millions of people (and he filed a lawsuit to prove it), the guy’s famous! The video has been copied, parodied, and shared hundreds of millions of times.

It just goes to show that sharing = exposure. The more sharing you do, the more exposure you give to the artist, and eventually, the more popular the artist becomes. It also goes to show that if you have a very successful product, people will copy it (or attempt to copy it) in order to capitalize off the original product’s popularity.

I suspect the government sponsored monopoly they’ve had for so long now is whats responsible for their blindness. Either that or they really are crazy greedy. In any case I’m betting they honestly would see greater net profits in the long run by simply reducing their prices. Charge less, make up the difference in bulk.

It’s so sad to see people on both sides lacking faith in this working. There is this completely false belief that you can’t compete with free, despite the fact that AllOfMP3 proved you can. I’ve been a downloader for a long long time and despite that I would happily pay for music and movies if only they were priced more reasonably. Hell, I’d probably buy more than I usually do most months without even realizing it. I’d probably be broke much of the time. I already want to buy an entire genre of albums, free of DRM in a lossless format of course. It’s not a matter of being cheap either. After paying rent, bills, groceries, and other debts, I rarely have much left over for the non-essentials.

Until the industry wises up, I will keep waiting… and downloading. The longer the world has to wait, the less likely it will be for the industry to regain the customers it has lost. If they die, oh well. I’m sure something better will fill the void left behind. Something always does.

As an artist, I have to disagree with you 100% on the subject of piracy. I feel that piracy is the best way for an artist to gain exposure. I also feel that it would be impossible to stop piracy because it’s so rampant.

I’ll start with a simple question. How does an artist gain popularity in the first place? Chances are, somebody hears the song on the radio or from another source, they tell their friends, and if the artist is good enough for them, they share and share, either by word of mouth, or by torrent. The more you share, the more exposure the artist gains, and the more popular they become.

If you were to take my term paper and share it online, I wouldn’t have a problem with it. Chances are, whoever copied my term paper would get in trouble for cheating, but it’s their fault for copying other people’s work anyway. If I were to develop a product that took me years to make, and I wanted to keep how it’s made a secret, chances are, I wouldn’t release it onto the Internet where the entire world can see it. If its computer software, chances are I would release it for free online anyway so I don’t have to worry about copyright infringement. I actually encourage people to share my artwork with everyone so that I can gain exposure. I release my artwork online and everyone’s free to copy and share it with anyone.

Copyright infringements happen billions, maybe even trillions of times a day. When you share a YouTube video, download an image, or share files without the original owner’s permission, technically you are committing copyright infringement. The only way to completely stop copyright infringement is to completely crack down on the internet in general. Prevent people from ripping FLV files from video sites, ban social networking websites from sharing content they find online (images, music, videos without the original owner’s permission) and take down software that contributes to these actions (YouTube Downloader, Firefox Apps, uTorrent, proxy sites). Doing this will create outrage among the Internet and even then you still have to worry about physical bootlegged material coming from foreign countries as well as the threat of pirates setting up underground operations.

You have to consider the fact that most artists don’t make more than the poverty level off their work and these are the artists that you should support. Those big-name artists already make enough money and push out subpar music anyway. Chances are if you like the artist’s work, you will share it with as many people as you can. You also have to consider the fact that lawsuits and jail time don’t deter piracy, just make it more versatile. Piracy has also existed with the industry for decades. Even before Bittorrent, Limewire, and Napster, people were still sharing music, recording TV shows on their VCRs, and bringing tape recorders to concerts to record live music. And yet, the music/movie industry still manages to survive and big-name execs are still blaming pirates for their lost sales.

You can take away all the big-name artists and pirates in the world, but without exposure, nobody’s going to recognize your work.

Crikes how lame and stupid can one get!?

Crikes how lame and stupid can one get!?

Power to the people! Not corrupt self-serving governments or evil corporates trying to dominate us.

Right now, the market decided that the monetary value of this is zero!

Trying to change that by making a law artificially raising the value of something doesn’t help. This law will simply be ignored.

1) I would not buy the single made by Flo Rida even if it was free, simply because i don’t like rap. Did the researchers even filter this out or take it into account?

2) Since the student had to value the songs themselves, giving a high value to a song indicates they deem it more worthwhile to buy. Isn’t it quite logic that they bought it then?

3) The research seems to suggest that the higher a person values a single given song, the higher their chance is that they will buy a song of their favorite genre. Do i even have to say this is comparing apples and pears?

4) The lawsuits – and specifically their spectacular misses such as suing dead persons – turned both political and general public opinion against both the RIAA and the “Greedy” music industry. On top of that the lawsuits actually costed the RIAA money. Are these researches truely so tunnel visioned that they didn’t take this into account at all? Or what did they think could possibly make up for this?

Haha, thats the funniest thing I’ve read here in ages.

Thank you for your kind words and offer of friendship. I know you probably mean well but I’m guessing you’re a teenager looking for some female validation.

I’ve read many of your posts and while you make some good points, you don’t seem capable of constructing a sentence [grammatically] to save your life. If you want to be taken seriously by those who read your writing then write like someone who has been educated.

Cordially,

June K. Williams

The study isn’t so much biased, we’re only trying to show that all the results are open to interpretation.

Have fun! ;]

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simple and sad truth: too many idiots are buying too much trash… it would be better, if more they would pirate and pirate more…

@11 : you are right. we pay already with our time and attention, permanently surrounded by advertisement, which is actually some kind of environmental pollution. who pays me, if i stand in the elevator and that crap music goes on my nerves?

So what? All that means is that you’ve got a market of paying recipients and a market of non-paying recipients. The vast majority of non-payers *wouldn’t have paid anyway*. They’re the people who choose to spend their money elsewhere. This is the nature of competition in the marketplace. Why should you be entitled to receive money from people who would never have been in the paying market even if the option to “pirate” wasn’t available to them?

We need to reboot the corporate music scene. Take everyone’s fucking auto-tune away, eliminate rap all together and lets get back to a better time.

Only retards and MAFIAA trolls are unable to differentiate between physical theft and making a copy… so which one are you?

But let’s talk about US’s organized corporate espionage of European companies, sanctioned by the government and performed by the military and CIA.

Fuck America!

and they wonder why people hate the song? jesus, it’s not even unique by name or otherwise. Flo Rida?

I hope that guy commits suicide for sucking up to the industry.