What do you think of RIAA suing college students for downloading music?
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They can't stop people from downloading music. This is a lost cause for the RIAA. More and more people are just going to pissed about this and boycott buying their sucky cd's anyway. That's why 80's music are on demand these days.
RIAA is sending a message by publicly stating that if you download without paying, you will pay. But, I do agree that they are making enemies of consumers. In the end, they will loose the public respect for them. That will be the end of them.
The music industry is NOT GOING TO WIN THIS WAR!
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Personally, I think it's terrible. College students don't, as a rule have any extra money - I suppose that's one reason they download those inferior, compressed music files. (another big reason being how music's been marketed by those RIAA guys: buy the cd of 10 songs to get 1 or 2 good ones.) Truly, this is "disgustapating" affair.
However, the University of California, I believe, made a deal with one or more of the main music producing conglomerates whereas the students are allowed a fair amount of "free" music downloads per term. This seems a very reasonable alternative.
What amazes me is how companies can charge $1 for a compressed DRM-infested music file. I'd rather buy a discounted CD and rip the thing myself, choosing whichever format I want. This might mean waiting for it to lapse from popularity but I gave up trying to be "hip" to other people's standards some time ago.
I have thousands of tracks archived on harddrive. The only downloads I have are from eMusic, Amplified, etc.. I paid for them. Most of my tracks come from CD, cassettes and LP's that I own.
And hey, are you implying there's something wrong with music from the '80's - my personal favorite decade of song and film? I like most music from most time periods. I can be listening to late Baroque (Bach) at noon and winding down my day with Post-Punk/New Wave (Romeo Void) and dropping off to sleep with a CD full of early Billie Holliday.
My car CD has the soundtracks to Conan The Barbarian and Howard The Duck. Also a Talking Heads/ Roxy Music Mixed, Spanish-Influenced Jazz/Rock Guitarists, a Cranberries Mixed, and a new Beethoven's 9th Symphony in it, right now.
Tomorrow it could be Hank Williams, Sr., Keiko Matsui, Rene Fleming, Joe Satriani, The Killers and Eminem. Never say never... you could be missing out.
I believe that it has to be done. It is stealing and it is destroying the retail music business. Now the only way an artist sells is if they were well established before the computer download generation, or if they are a novelty off of TV. I blame you all for American Idol, for Clay Aiken and for that talentless Jay Leno looking loser...
The RIAA has been sore ever since their kill switch failed. its just REALLY freaking dumb to charge every student the same general price of $3000 dollars. I mean really, they couldn't possibly keep track of how many files the students stole without infiltrating the student's computer which is illegal in itself. Ergo: the RIAA can’t even begin to estimate their loss. I got a tip for the RIAA, give up. no one is going to stop stealing things from you I think anyone here could promise that in a heartbeat, so if your really so concerned about how much money your loosing (as if were supposed to feel for the RIAA when they cry of lost money, awww look at the poor little fascist mega corporation that has tried on numerous occasions to kill our internet freedom) then stop spending money trying to kill piracy and I think you'll find that you've still got enough money to linger in the shadows for another twelve million generations.
And if whatever files people stole are pirated then the RIAA has no claim on them and spent no money making the files, these are collage students that likely would have the money to pay for the files. so lets do the math:
RIAA spends nothing making the files= loss of nothing
Students would not have bought them if they weren't pirating= gain of nothing
charging $3000 dollars= ABSOLUTELY NO LOGICAL SENSE
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