True, Rawat, ARR can have a say in this and I wish he would.
--- In [email protected], V S Rawat <vsra...@...> wrote:
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> On 5/6/2010 5:47 AM India Time, _AJ_ wrote:
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> > (And by the way, I'm not blaming ARR for this.......
>
> So nice of you not to blame ARR when he can be blamed. :-)
>
> When you are blaming everybody else, I think ARR should also share his
> responsibility "for his inaction" to do something about it.
>
> ARR has a repute now. No one can make ARR sign on dotted lines. ARR
> can put conditions that would popularize his music and would present
> the music to his fans in a better way, and producers/ directors/
> rights companies will accept those terms. But he is not doing it as
> far as I know.
>
> --
> this decision to have different versions of songs, not in different
> languages as that would be a genuine point, but the same song in same
> language in many voices, some songs in film not in CD, some songs in
> CD and not in film, so on -- all this actually fuels the piracy
> because user/ listeneres/ buyers are unsatisfied. they would say -
> what the hell, there are two more songs in the film that is not in CD
> so why bother buying incomplete CD.
>
> Genuine music buyers get worst affected as they pay full charges for
> the CD and still not get full music of the film.
>
> If Ud Ja rey is released in later versions of CD or DVDs, many of hard
> core fans would buy it again, but isn't that audio-video rights holder
> company cheating the music/ video buyers by making them cough up huge
> money many times in the name of one more songs.
>
> like gops had said once that he would (and had been) buy all
> collections of ARR even if they have few or even all repeat songs. I
> wonder if gops has made a list, and can share with us, of how many
> times he has bought same individual songs in different collections?
>
> --
> Rawat
>