RIAA Says No To Transferring Legally Purchased Music From CD To PC

Washington Post:

Despite more than 20,000 lawsuits filed against music fans in the years since they started finding free tunes online rather than buying CDs from record companies, the recording industry has utterly failed to halt the decline of the record album or the rise of digital music sharing.

Still, hardly a month goes by without a news release from the industry's lobby, the Recording Industry Association of America, touting a new wave of letters to college students and others demanding a settlement payment and threatening a legal battle.

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Comments

[unionworker2]

A writer has no more claim to downstream income than a set designer or a caterer, they are all just components in a complex business process that involves many people in many roles, from Janitor to Financier...

[wrabbitt]

Maybe its time to get even! Purchase no more cds for the next six months! Download everything you want! they made us pay for this bullshit. lets pay them back!

[Tator]

Everyone that shares a song the RECIPIENT has not paid for is indeed ripping off the artist.

You can play semantics all you want, but if you are listening to music you did not pay for you are stealing from another artist, most likely a fellow Liberal.

What I find so interesting is here you are , all you Intellectual Elites Saints that are always acting all so uppity, are trying to rationalize your crimes of stealing from the artists, by saying it is OK because you are stealing from the evil record companies.

Liberals practice SITUATIONAL ETHICS and RELATIVE MORALISM. If a Liberal breaks the law it is OK. It is just the non-Liberals that are evil thieves.

Thanks for demonstrating it so blatantly. Mirrors can teach a lot if you are honest enough to really see the reflection.

[Tankan]

Jeez! Does that mean, starting with Microsoft and Apple, I'll have to uninstall all my CD burning and ripping equipment?

Could the above mentioned actually be accused of providing the means to aide and abet a henious crime?

Can I still copy CD to CD is that still legal?

If my CD is damaged will the Recording Company provide me with a free replacment?

[Libsrule]

I stopped buying CDs when this when the RIAA started this crap of attacking the little people for downloading and sharing.

I do buy from iTunes and RealPlayer occasionally.

BUT I had already bought just about all the music I had wanted on CD before this started so they can go fuck themselves.

Besides. I downloaded ALL of my CDs onto my computer and made copies onto CDs of the songs I really like so I can listen to them while I am driving because of the crap on radio today.

FULL CONFESSION RIAA.

Now come and get me.


Assholes.

[GeorgeKaplan]

RIAA = GREED

[shotgunblast]

I find it difficult to believe an industry that ten years ago was raking in BILLIONS yearly hasn't figured this whole mess out. Ponderous. Their only reaction is lawyers and suing college students? Here's an idea. Hire some computer geeks to figure how to limit the amount of digital transfers once a CD has been ripped to a computer. Personally I think the music of today isn't all that hot. Could it be maybe musical innovation is stagnant? There used to be several groups in every genre that were successful. But now? Not so much. There's a combination of factors involved here, and illegal downloading is but one of them. Adapt or die.

[KindAndThoughtful]

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[rh654]

The record companies blew it when the problem started and lost all control. The number of lawsuits they file compared to the actual number is such a drop in the bucket that it won't make a difference.

The heads of the companies should be fired and run out of town for their inability to get on top of the technology change and guide their business properly.

[Ping]

Really?

Then I'll have to do the right thing. In order to stay within the boundries of the law, I will forever refrain from buying another music CD.

[mpgarr]

To hell with the RIAA!!!!
They wonder why the music business is dying--all they have to do is to look in the mirror!!!
These people are something else--if they really cared about the interests of the musicians then maybe I would accept their arguments on such things--but the recording companies have almost always consistently screwed the "artists" who provide their content---
To hell with these evil bastards!!!

[mouselion]

if that single purchased song gets PASSED around.

[mouselion]

The music industry is between a rock and a hard place. A single download onto a computer can cost thousands of dollars in sales, if that single purchased song gets past around. The number of people benefiting from that one download can increase exponentially across cyberspace.

On the other side of the issue is the rights of consumers and 50 years of legal precendent for recording for personal use on reel-to-reel, 8-track, cassette and VCR tape. Consumers are outraged at this Big Brother approach of the corporate recording industry.

The Big Platter clearly needs a new model, as we all have been aware for some time.

For our part? Eschew major record labels purchases as much as you can (I know, a hard one -- but, hey whittle it down to only a couple of your very favorite). And then support indy labels, local musicians, open mics, etc. It's part of the Localvore rationale, that whatever you do to support local benefits you more than supporting big box stores, corporate giants of any stripe, and, the big biggie, global warming/po­lution/dep­endence on foreign oil.

Once again localism trumps as the most sane solution.

[ChicagoBob]

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Actually I think the RIAA just can't think of any way to deal with the changing technology so they are just hunkering down in a last ditch effort to maintain the status quo.

It won't work, of course, but it sure reveals some serious flaws in both logic and practicality.

Maybe we could help by sending them some suggestions as to how the industry could remodel itself such that it could deal with present day realities.

My thinking is develop some good product. One or two good tracks on a $14 - $18 CD just forces people to copy. Very few of their products provide enough value to make a legit purchase seem worthwhile.

But I could be wrong.
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[ChicagoBob]

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Come and get me. I'm guilty.
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