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What exactly is a "small violator"? I'd like to know, so that I dont send up any red flags, you know?
I thought that was called a "Windows PC"
$1100-2000+ for a gaming rig? From Gateway? Un-friggin'-believable. Even a long-time Mac user like myself could build a better machine for less. Admittedly, I'm not their target (they seem to be going after the $$$-laden technowuss), but four figures is WAAAY overpriced.
These people are so f****** ridiculous. Let's sue a college student for 17,000.00, because college students are so rich. The student was not making any money from these songs. They weren't even enhancing their reputation by being the distributor. But the fat cat RIAA b******* felt that it was in their best interests to s**** the little guy.
How much of that 17 grand went to the artists? Wait, I know. None. Is RIAA the Spanish word for hypocrite? Are these fat a******* really any better than the Mafia?
Talk about an organization that has outlived it's usefulness. Wait a minute...they were never useful to anyone but themselves! It was the perfect crime. s**** the artists AND the consumers, all in the name of helping them, and get filthy rich in the process. Now, petty crooks are picking at their pie, and they hate to lose out on a single penny of their rape money.
The RIAA are the real pirates, and they have been riding herd over the industry for too long. Show them that the ruse is over. Stop buying CDs, pirate MP3's, and let's give the industry back to who it really belongs to, the artist.
I hate to inform you, but somebody already made a computer that is designed specifically to play video games. It's called an X-Box.
You might want to look into it.
Signed,
The People With Some Brains in Their Heads
...or, if the XBox isn't PC enough for you, there's always Alienware. If you're cheap, you'll go XBox, if you're not quite as cheap, you'll go build-it-yourself rig for less, if you're less cheap, why not go all out with a geeked-out-manhood-replacement box?
Of course, let's not forget that pretty soon MS will own every game developer on the planet, and they'll all be XBox exclusive, at which point a gaming PC won't matter much anyway.
"The student was not making any money from these songs." Stealing is stealing. It is illegal to give away someone else's copyrighted works. Whether one makes a profit or not is not the issue, a legal case can be made when you defraud the artists.
"Talk about an organization that has outlived it's usefulness. Wait a minute...they were never useful to anyone but themselves!"
The RIAA was invented by the top 5 major labels. Think they'll go away? You'll be dead and in the ground before that happens.
"s**** the artists AND the consumers, all in the name of helping them, and get filthy rich in the process."
The RIAA and the Top 5 labels are two separate things, why do you confuse them? Are there artists who signed bad contracts and got screwed? Of course. Are there artists who are getting paid wonderfully? Yes...why don't you mention them? But the RIAA has nothing to do with these contracts between an artist and their companies. Another one who has no clue about what they are talking about.
"The RIAA are the real pirates, and they have been riding herd over the industry for too long. Show them that the ruse is over. Stop buying CDs, pirate MP3's, and let's give the industry back to who it really belongs to, the artist."
Thank god you aren't in charge of a record label, people would be on welfare! Anyone who believes the above statement is clueless. If you think every artist is going to open up a website and do their own promotion and all the leg work it takes to get music into the marketplace, you are a fool. The majority of artists are not very good businesspeople and there does exist a good working relationship between many artists and their companies.
Of course, you'd never believe that and every piece of software on your computer was bought and paid for....yeah right!
If I was in charge of a record label, would I care if they were all on welfare? Likely not, as I and my RIAA would be too busy raping them and poor students to give a s***.
I wonder what authority you have that gives you the right to characterize artists as bad business people? It's a pretty broad statement, and one that I don't think anyone would believe. Sure, many artists are likely better at making music than selling it, but if there was a standard template and a forum to display it available to all, how hard could it be? I think if someone was making good music, then it would be heard.
Perhaps I'll be dead and buried by the time the RIAA disappears, but I somehow doubt it. The organization is a complete dinosaur, and people are really starting to understand the issues. It's s**** or be screwed, and I think that today's artists and consumers understand that a group like the RIAA can never benefit anyone.
And if you think that the major labels aren't in for a major shakeup, then you have very little understanding of what is really happening here. The fat cats are fucked, and they know it. They aren't admitting it yet, but they will soon have no choice.
Artists really do want to self-market. Cut the price of a CD in half and give the whole profit to the artist. What's wrong with that picture? Ummmm, nothing.
So fuckoff, you self-important windbag. Dry up and blow away. Your ideas about how the industry should work belong in a history book about how to get screwed. Get a clue about the future, come back here, and apologize to everyone for demonstrating once again that you type faster than you think.
I'd say you're right. Let the RIAA die, better still, murder it. Greedy monopolistic organizations have no place in the world of today.
What is really needed is an easily accessable, searchable, and cheap method to allow music fans to search for what they want, download individual songs to listen to, and if they want, buy a discount CD (or, better still, DVD) of that artist's music. The downloadable tracks would be offered for free, and the CDs could be purchased for a reasonable fee (say 5-10 dollars), the profits from which would all go to the artist. Expenses would most likely include manufacture of the disc, case, and printing the label. Maybe a small anual fee, say, $25 per year, could be paid to the song-listing company in order to have the artist's songs up on their site. What's more, artists could sign up with multiple companies to get even more exposure, or just stick with one distributer and proudly advertise "this song is a exclusive".
This would get artists paid, make consumers happy, and get rid of some greedy monopolistic businesses. :-)
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