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File Sharing Without the Fear | |
| Subject: | Another Way to stay off the RIAA radar | |
| Date: | 2003-10-18 09:37:02 | |
| From: | anonymous2 | |
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Buy your music.
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Another Way to stay off the RIAA radar
2003-12-05 00:15:25 anonymous2 [Reply | View]
But the itunes quality is iffy, and limited in what you can do with it.
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Another Way to stay off the RIAA radar
2003-10-21 10:07:14 anonymous2 [Reply | View]
well said.
If people are not breaking the law they've nothing to fear.
I think O'Reilly should stop advocating illegal practices and publishing content that allows people to circumvent the law.
In most countries such are criminal offenses in themselves.
In Europe too it's easy to get legal music.
I currently own about 500 music CDs, most purchased in Europe (apart from a few dozen I got from the Americas because they're impossible to get here), a number that increases by one or two a month (and goes down again when once every few years I cull my collection and sell the chaff).
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Another Way to stay off the RIAA radar
2003-10-20 05:47:53 anonymous2 [Reply | View]
Sure, it's simple -- for those who happen to live in the USA. If you live in Europe it's not quite so simple as the music industry just can't agree on the licensing terms. All you get is "we'll start our own online music service real soon now" statements from the record companies as well as CDs with copy-protection. Now that's customer service for you!
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Another Way to stay off the RIAA radar
2003-10-19 20:26:54 anonymous2 [Reply | View]
And what are you able to do with those files once you have DLed them?
What is mean is, are they actually MP3 format?, If not, that's a bad sign right there, but, just for the sake of argument, let's look a bit deeper - are they at least as good a quality as the 128bit rate MP3s you find on p2p networks?, Can they be easily Re-Transmitted with software other then there own, AND always work, reguardless of how meny differant systems it is on?, Can you use standard audio editing software on these files if you wish?, Can you make your own Audio CD with them, using ANY burning software (not be able to do it, but only with there own software.)?, Once burned to Audio CD (if it's posible at all), can that disc then be ripped with any standard audio CD ripper?, And for the last one I can think of at the moment, can these files easily be converted to another audio file format (whatever it is to WAV, WMA, MP3, MP2, exc.)?
If the answer to even one of these questions to no, then as far as I am concerned, ther are totally worthless.....
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Another Way to stay off the RIAA radar
2003-10-19 07:45:20 anonymous2 [Reply | View]
People are paying for songs on the iTunes Music Store because they think it's a good way to support musicians. But by giving musicians just a few cents from each sale, iTunes destroys a huge opportunity. Instead of creating a system that gets virtually all of fans' money directly to artists-- finally possible with the internet-- iTunes takes a big step backwards. Apple calls iTunes "revolutionary" but really they're just letting record companies force the same exploitive and unfair business model onto a new medium.
If you build a shiny new house on a landfill it still stinks Apple says iTunes is "better than free" because it's "fair to artists and record companies." That's simply not true. First of all, Apple gets 3 times as much money as musicians from each sale. Apple takes a 35% cut from every song and every album sold, a huge amount considering how little they have to do. Record labels receive the other 65% of each sale. Of this, major label artists will end up with only 8 to 14 cents per song, depending on their contract. Many of them will never even see this paltry share because they have to pay for producers and record label "costs", both of which can be enormous. Until the musician "recoups" these costs, when you buy an iTunes song, the label gives them nothing
