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New copy-proof music discs are , leaving consumers wondering how 2D displays ever sufficed, says NewsFactor.
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My good friend has owned a CD & Record store for 25 years. He said they are actually raising the prices of CDs and he can no longer sell enough. He said if they are low enough like $13 you will end up selling two CDs instead of one for $19. And he can't compete with all the chains. American business isn't making sense anymore. Life isn't efficient, so why try to make everything so streamlined you take the life out of everything. We're all humans, not machines. Embrace life's model which is self-sufficient and self-healing. Machines break down and consume, consume, consume.
CHain stores have caused alot of inefficent stores to go under, thats life, before there were chain stores, there was something else. He needs to find new things to sell. Just as I'm sure the internet had displaced other businesses, it also created new types of businesses, some things are still the same, just different.
That's life.
i really do, but my money is not going as far with CDS and if i have to return one I will. if they all go nuts with DRM schemes I will stop buying. sorry but if the RIAA doesnt trust me, I'll pay for mp3s and steal the rest. how much do they really want my money id they do this? honestly!
The last thing we need are virus-infected phones running Windows.
As improved as sound is on these new formats, they have been limited to analog outputs and massive copy protection. Completely inefficient for the wave of portable audio that people want in the marketplace, like music for the car, on the road, in a bus, working out, in the office space, etc...MP3's and digital formats are ideal because of the amount of music one can take with them and despite the RIAA, the reason why consumers enjoy this format is its portability and ease of play. And record companies have severely dropped the ball on embracing a format and making a profit on it, but didn't, still trying to gouge consumers thru overpriced CD's , and introducing cumbersome new formats that aren't even as convienent as the current formats out there.
There's a reason why so many consumers have revolted against the record industry, even many of the artists have voiced their opposition to these tactics (obviously not all tho). In this current marketplace, people want value for their purchases, and the record companies cannot or will not provide, hiding behind shady laws instead of talent to maintain profits.
Basically, the reason why people make copies of their digital music is because there is a demand for it, for backup protection, for convienence, for whatever reasons, but record companies are relunctant to fill that demand, which only forces people to fend for themselves, legally or illegally. Instead, they give us a format that could potentially be better but the hardware itself is crippled worse than popular standards. No deal - more proof record companies are just not hearing the voice of their consumers and will continue to lose potential profits over it. Which is downright dispicable for the artists who rely on these companies to help them succeed and the consumers who are starving for some good music...
Well... if the record companies kill themselves with their current idiocy, I won't lose any sleep over it. I purchase CDs with the intent of using them both in my home audio system, and in my car via an MP3 player. If it becomes impossible to rip them or copy them for backup purposes, I'll stop buying and start downloading. Yes, I WILL stop PAYING, and start STEALING if that's the only way I can get decent media that is not corrupted by greedy executives. Time to wake up and realize that NOTHING you do is going to prevent people from stealing when they are determined to do so. You either have a market for your products, or you don't. If people don't buy enough of a particular album or artist, stop producing it. Use logic rather than idiocy to make people buy your products. Oh no! Your business might SHRINK! THE END IS NEAR!! Grow up, and realize that our current economical system is FINITE. You CANNOT sustain an economy based upon constant growth for very long in a world with limited resources. Oh, nevermind... I'm likely wasting my breath trying to talk to record executives. Chances are they never look at sites like this anyway. They're probably in a meeting right now debating on how to institute a liscensing system for media ownership, and SWAT teams to raid houses that listen to any recorded music without a $1200 annual liscense. =P
The music industry missed the boat. They can get back in if they LOWER the CD prices to $5.99-$9.99. Then, simple economics will prove that sales will increase.
They also need to release older titles more frequently, then leave such in moratorium. Disney is doomed the same way...who cares about Pinocchio seven years from now? Do they think children are born once every 7 years? Who do they hire to provide this "wisdom" from? (Keebler dwarves?)
I say, keep ripping 'em brother, keep ripping 'em. Someone will get the point (oh, gee, it only took 12 months for some PU professor to figure that if you lower the price, they will come...)
Does the writer of this site know what a period is? The use of semi-colons is incorrect. There should be periods between each of the non-related sentences. The method of linking unrelated items from the same source by semi-colons is wrong and difficult to read.
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hot damn
look at how the record companies villainize their consumers. guarantee you that if i start buying CDs and I cant rip them to my ipod i WILL STEAL. Hey, i tried to give you my money, but if you will be that way i can buy from mp3.com and steal the other s***.
go to h*** RIAA