At 08:24 PM 7/6/2005, Winterlight typed:
The only way the media industry are going to come out of this, is to
change their thinking, and come up with new ways to market old products.
There was a little local coffee shop that use to play audio CDs that she
had purchased when a RIAA representative counted all the chairs while I was
there & told the owner that she would have to pay $XXX.00 weekly to
continue to playing the cds publicly in her coffee shop. She commented that
it wasn't publicly since it was her little coffee shop & that the price
they commanded would bankrupt her. She immediately stopped playing the cds
that she had purchased & stopped buying cds entirely. From then on she only
played the radio. Many of her clients had heard her cds & had gone out to
buy their own copies but the RIAA representative didn't care about that
when she brought up that fact. She complained that the price they wanted
was more expensive than if she had bought each chair a cd. We all know that
not every chair was filled from opening to close as well but I doubt the
RIAA representative took that into effect either.
It's strong arm tactics like these that many people see that give them the
feeling that it's ok to steal something from these guys. Believe me the
coffee shop owner told everyone why she was no longer playing audio cds any
more & then she had a sign made up that anyone could read as to why & there
was nothing the RIAA could do about her putting that sign up in her shop
because it was 100% the truth.
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Wayne D. Johnson
Ashland, OH, USA 44805
<http://www.wavijo.com>
