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Off-Topic Discussion => General Discussion => Topic started by: Liberator on February 03, 2004, 09:37:39 pm
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http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=528&e=2&u=/ap/20040203/ap_on_hi_te/taming_file_sharing
Would you pay X number of dollars per month or year for unlimited downloads/copies?
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you forgot the "**** RIAA" and "There are uses for P2P other than copying files and violating copyrights"
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it's a good idea, most of the people wopuld go for it, and ther'd still probly be a way to hiack into it for the small number of smart angery people who hate the RIAA
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if RIAA had it's way _ALL_ P2P applications, not just filesharing ones would have a RIAA-tax on them
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if the RIAA had it's way _air_ would likely have a RIAA tax on it
/*goes off to patent arobic metabolism*/
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Added charge to current internet fees would just be overwhelming.
Point #1: If an artist really feels it's that big of a deal then they shouldn't be in the music business, because regardless of how hard you try to govern the internet, piracy is still going to happen.
Point #2: Fans support the artists anyway. Also P2P sharing is what gets some artists discovered in the first place.
Point #3: Some record companies are a bunch of thieves. Without the record label, the artist might not be able to get their material public. And without the artist, the record company would not be able to make money without someone to make distributions for. Looks like a 50-50 deal to me. It's ridiculous how some record companies slap charges on the artist more than they should. P2P sharing looks like a way of evening this out. Why? If the artist's audio is shared, this creates potential for the artist to be supported by other means - concert tickets and other merchandising, thus the record companies do not get paid and therefore evening out the record-company-profit to artist's-actual-profit ratio. Kind of far-fetched to believe this is true for all record labels, but what I'm saying is it holds true for many so P2P in turn could work in more favor for the artist and less favor for the label, like it should.
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To hell with RIAA i wouldn't give them a cent even if my balls where on fire...yeah...fire... :blah:
The Executives should burn in hell, then get poked in the arse by a thousand little imps for eternity.
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what if they were holding a potent fire retardent, and all they wanted was 1 cent?
:D
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only a thousand?
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much more than that and it just starts becomeing white noise
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Bob: then i guess i would have no nuts and i would Miss them Dearly...for about two seconds before i attempt to kill myself.
Lib: their would be a Huge pile of imps i don't know if anymore could fit and get a poke at the same time.
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Nope. I prefer to buy CDs anyway, for the associated bumfph. There's something soulless about keeping songs on disk or cheap cd-rs, IMO. I use P2P to get rarities and sample albums.... I've bought at least 5 albums this year that I wouldn't have had I not been able to sample them.
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Originally posted by neo_hermes
Bob: then i guess i would have no nuts and i would Miss them Dearly...for about two seconds before i attempt to kill myself.
you could just steal it from them...
:)