it's not a matter of proving money loss.. its a matter of being anti-competitive... its about abusing privileges to conduct in commerce.. its about illegally controlling assets you bought....
Sure if someone sell a copy of something and makes money they should be liable to buy/reimburse for every license... As far as single sales go... They killed singles years ago... sales have been downward... Users eons ago wanted custom tapes/cd's... so a set of singles ... after all how many musicians have one catchy track and fill the rest of the album with noise? most. If anything production and distribution costs have gone down... CD media is on the floor cost wise... duplicators and staff costs are all time low... Distribution channels are much more established.. they can say hey Best Buy carry our popular muzak and bang how many units go away... not like the old days and making contact with independent record shops... This is that big argument that we all need to face up to... Costs are increased in business because we pay those big execs all that silly money... Like Mickey Mouser Eisner his 50million plus annual salary... Not only do we pay them, but we pay lots of non productive middle management to shuffle papers, do golf, and socialize. Of course there are also those greedy bastard wall street investors too that want continued unregulated infinity is the limit quarterly growth... That's why things cost more... The musicians are luck to get a whole $1 off a record sale... meaning... you have to sell a whole lot of records to make a living people think you do... -Any country that has a minimum wage should have a maximum wage. -paris -----Original Message----- From: Nick McClure [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, August 22, 2002 9:56 AM To: CF-Community Subject: RE: DOJ to swappers Law's not on your side - Tech News - CNET.com So you are saying that because they aren't loosing money it is legal? I would say the companies are loosing a little money on single sales more than anything. But they make up for it by raising the price of CDs and concerts, and by paying the artists less. Sure they don't loose money, everybody else does. > -----Original Message----- > From: Paris Lundis [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Thursday, August 22, 2002 9:20 AM > To: CF-Community > Subject: RE: DOJ to swappers Law's not on your side - Tech News - CNET.com > > This is exactly the reason why George Bush can't get any support for the > economy and rebuilding initiatives related thereto... > > The Republiclans are at it again.. Defending an industry that has > essentially proven to be recession proof and that can't really > substantiate > any claims related to losses due to file sharing/swapping... > > I know myself, I have utilized such technologies to learn about artists I > ended up buying music from... Considering these record executioners, I > mean > executives only seem to push money for marketing at bubblegum crap > photocopy > formulamatic junk muzak they should applaud file swapping and figure out > how > to emulate its success... But no... > > Support the corporate police state, buy a piece of mass produced crap. > > In the land of law, the law will prosecute itself. > > -paris ______________________________________________________________________ Signup for the Fusion Authority news alert and keep up with the latest news in ColdFusion and related topics. http://www.fusionauthority.com/signup.cfm Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/index.cfm?sidebar=lists
