iPhone;238026 Wrote: > Some nerve to ask somebody to pay royalties on their own songs! > But they aren't his - he sold them to the label. If I sold you my car, and then six months later turned up and drove off with it you'd be rightly annoyed. Did they overreact in this case? Probably - that's certainly something the RIAA do with great frequency. But here's a tip - if you want to retain control of something, don't sell it.
> > Other then Congress allowing the illegal monopoly of the RIAA to exist > Illegal monopoly? What? I own well over 1000 CDs and the majority are from non-RIAA member labels. Some monopoly. > > can anybody tell me why we are still paying $18 dollars for a new CD > that costs less then a penny to make with a production cost under $200K > for the album? > I don't know - why are you? My guess is that it's because you think the music is worth the cost. So what's the problem? You'd like it to be cheaper? I'd like a lot of things to be cheaper but I buy them anyway. > > Now compare that to a $5.50 DVD at Wal-Mart that costs 25 cents to make > and multiple millions to produce the movie. > You're not comparing like with like. There are plenty of cheap discounted CDs out there, and just like the cheap discounted movies they're the ones nobody wants. The new/good movies cost $20+. > > I can tell you they would not be selling them for $5.50 if they were > not making money. > Of course they're making money. They'd make more if they could charge $20 and get the same sell rate, but obviously that wouldn't happen, so they charge less. Again, if the $18 CDs weren't selling, they'd lower the price (and to be honest, very few mainstream CDs cost anything like $18 in my experience). > > The RIAA is so greedy is what the problem is. They just do not > understand that if CDs were $3 or $4 each that we would be buying the > hell out of them and trying new music because hey its only four bucks. > > Well first off, the RIAA don't sell anything, their member companies do. But that aside, do you really think they haven't thought about selling CDs for $4? Of course they have. And their pricing gurus have obviously decided that it wouldn't be as profitable as what they're doing now. Maybe they're right, maybe they're wrong. If you think it's such an obvious thing, why not start your own record label and make a killing? Otherwise, play your part as a smart consumer and vote with your wallet. > > If things continue and the RIAA does not wake up, there will be no more > CDs. > A lot of people would think that was great (labels included - it costs a lot less to sell a copy of a file than a CD). Personally I'd hate it, at least until lossless downloads are common. -- radish ------------------------------------------------------------------------ radish's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=77 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=39586 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
