I remember way back when
Jun. 30th, 2005 09:15 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
anysiaI remember watching CNET on the SciFi channel every Saturday morning, and learned about all the new things computers and technology were doing for us, and what we can do with it.
I remember clearly the shows that aired, with the interviewer and interviewee discussing Mp3s. How one could make digital copies of their own music, and they could share it. RIAA pretty much shrugged this off as a passing fad. No one would archive their music in such a fashion, nor would they share it about, since radio and mtv did that.
So, instead of coming up with a workable business model, the RIAA goes rabidly after people that have used this technology. Some cases in point: suing a 12yr old who had the audacity to try to find the right birthday song for her grandpa. One person they issued a summons had been dead for several years.
Sure there are mega pirates, that burn new CDs and put them out for sharing. But I could care less about 'new artists'. The majority of them are mediocre no talents, that if it wasn't for using equipement to alter frequencies of their voices, every dog within a 20 mile radius would start howling in pain.
My biggest bitches about CDs are:
You get a CD with 12 tracks, and all but 1 or 2 are shit.
CDs are cheap as dirt, so why am I paying $30 for one?
Yes, I know that artists and their leeches errr managers need to make money, but cd 29 cents.. music on cd $30.00. Anyone see the huge mark up here? Of course you do.
Also, may very very old songs, that people who have them on vinyl and have carefully digitised them as mp3s or oggs, and have made them available for other audiophiles. If these songs/albums are no longer being sold, what is the big deal? The RIAA wants monies for songs that are not sold any longer, or they don't want people to remember there was good music before their rise into power. Ummm ok.
To paraphrase the wonderful words of the Foo Fighters to Lars Ulrich and RIAA "You sold millions of cds, made millions of dollars and you are bitching about a few pennies? F*ck you!"
I remember clearly the shows that aired, with the interviewer and interviewee discussing Mp3s. How one could make digital copies of their own music, and they could share it. RIAA pretty much shrugged this off as a passing fad. No one would archive their music in such a fashion, nor would they share it about, since radio and mtv did that.
So, instead of coming up with a workable business model, the RIAA goes rabidly after people that have used this technology. Some cases in point: suing a 12yr old who had the audacity to try to find the right birthday song for her grandpa. One person they issued a summons had been dead for several years.
Sure there are mega pirates, that burn new CDs and put them out for sharing. But I could care less about 'new artists'. The majority of them are mediocre no talents, that if it wasn't for using equipement to alter frequencies of their voices, every dog within a 20 mile radius would start howling in pain.
My biggest bitches about CDs are:
You get a CD with 12 tracks, and all but 1 or 2 are shit.
CDs are cheap as dirt, so why am I paying $30 for one?
Yes, I know that artists and their leeches errr managers need to make money, but cd 29 cents.. music on cd $30.00. Anyone see the huge mark up here? Of course you do.
Also, may very very old songs, that people who have them on vinyl and have carefully digitised them as mp3s or oggs, and have made them available for other audiophiles. If these songs/albums are no longer being sold, what is the big deal? The RIAA wants monies for songs that are not sold any longer, or they don't want people to remember there was good music before their rise into power. Ummm ok.
To paraphrase the wonderful words of the Foo Fighters to Lars Ulrich and RIAA "You sold millions of cds, made millions of dollars and you are bitching about a few pennies? F*ck you!"
