I would guess that I buy more CDs than 90% of the population. I whole-heartily support www.allofmp3.com. They demonstrate that the paradigm the RIAA is fighting tooth and nail to drag into the 21st century is OUTDATED and blind.
Sheesh. Wake up people. The RIAA and other outdated media industry organizations have been screaming that they are being wronged while at the same time acting like bullies and thugs. This was how the Roman politicians would act, as their civilization was burning down around them. That only works for so long, and then the damn bursts. These organizations have had it sweet, each year the cost of producing and distrubting music goes down, while the basic price for a CD retail is still $12 to $15. How is it that CDs haven't come down in price? Does the music industry really look like a market where free market pricing is occuring? And this $1 a song price online. Essentially, for a 12 song CD, you are paying slightly under retail for a virtual CD. One that didn't need to be produced physically, shipped, stored in a warehouse, shipped again, take shelf space in a store, and incur return/damage costs for defective media. And the price is the same as the physical CD? Bullshit. The media industry are thugs dressed in suits saying they are honest and you are evil to consider trying to go around them. They are playing us by using our good nature to keep us acting like sheep. On the flip side, they have done EVERYTHING in their power to shutdown any competition that goes around their desired sales channels. Nasty and vile things. Their lawyers twist any legit businesses trying to do the interet thing into little inefficient efforts doomed to failure. We need allofmp3, we need them to show the world that this model works. We need them to show that people will do the decent thing and pay for music, but at a REASONABLE price. They will do the moral thing. But don't ask me to stand still and let some thug dressed in a suit rob me blind because it isn't moral for me to want them to take advantage of the huge efficiencies technology affords them. -- blue ------------------------------------------------------------------------ blue's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=798 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=28858 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
