Comments on: RIAA’s legal overreaching is being brought under control http://www.scholarsandrogues.com/2007/08/17/riaas-legal-overreaching-is-being-brought-under-control/ Think. It ain't illegal yet... Fri, 10 Feb 2012 05:13:05 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: DomPierre http://www.scholarsandrogues.com/2007/08/17/riaas-legal-overreaching-is-being-brought-under-control/comment-page-1/#comment-430 DomPierre Fri, 17 Aug 2007 18:23:27 +0000 http://www.scholarsandrogues.com/?p=65#comment-430 They ought to list the RIAA and SoundExchange under the classification of nuisance suits. Yet still another case of the corporate welfare class of America sponging rather than working. And as far as SoundExchange, <a href="http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20070806/013113.shtml" rel="nofollow">this</a> is interesting. Dvorak: What the French got right with proposed DRM law Tuesday, March 28, 2006 "So France doesn't like the idea that Apple and the iPod and iTunes are intertwined with a proprietary structure that has no way for any other player/music download service to compete. The French say that Apple must either open the kimono, as it were, or be banned. Apple thinks it may as well walk away from France," John C. Dvorak writes for PC Magazine. "Screw those French!" "The French are also skeptical about the whole movie-piracy phenomenon. Why should illegally downloading the equivalent of a $19 disc result in a $250,000 fine and 5 years in prison? Shoplifting a $100 item from a store They ought to list the RIAA and SoundExchange under the classification of nuisance suits. Yet still another case of the corporate welfare class of America sponging rather than working. And as far as SoundExchange, this is interesting.

Dvorak: What the French got right with proposed DRM law

Tuesday, March 28, 2006

“So France doesn’t like the idea that Apple and the iPod and iTunes are intertwined with a proprietary structure that has no way for any other player/music download service to compete. The French say that Apple must either open the kimono, as it were, or be banned. Apple thinks it may as well walk away from France,” John C. Dvorak writes for PC Magazine. “Screw those French!”

“The French are also skeptical about the whole movie-piracy phenomenon. Why should illegally downloading the equivalent of a $19 disc result in a $250,000 fine and 5 years in prison? Shoplifting a $100 item from a store

]]> By: Jim Booth http://www.scholarsandrogues.com/2007/08/17/riaas-legal-overreaching-is-being-brought-under-control/comment-page-1/#comment-429 Jim Booth Fri, 17 Aug 2007 17:28:33 +0000 http://www.scholarsandrogues.com/?p=65#comment-429 Exactly, Sam. If the record companies (and their corporate masters) could understand that the music "industry" isn't really an industry, but an art form being turned into merchandise, they'd either a) get out and let people who understand this make the business profitable again or b) die like the gravy sucking pigs they are. I don't care which happens.... Exactly, Sam. If the record companies (and their corporate masters) could understand that the music “industry” isn’t really an industry, but an art form being turned into merchandise, they’d either a) get out and let people who understand this make the business profitable again or b) die like the gravy sucking pigs they are.

I don’t care which happens….

]]> By: Sam Smith http://www.scholarsandrogues.com/2007/08/17/riaas-legal-overreaching-is-being-brought-under-control/comment-page-1/#comment-431 Sam Smith Fri, 17 Aug 2007 16:19:32 +0000 http://www.scholarsandrogues.com/?p=65#comment-431 And I don't think that last bit can be overstated. Sure, free is a great price, but people are willing to pay a fair price for value. However, when they see your product getting worse and worse and your business approach looking more and more like a Sopranos episode, it's going to engender a certain bad faith in the marketplace. Spend some goddamned money on artist development and ask a fair price and see if things don't improve... And I don’t think that last bit can be overstated. Sure, free is a great price, but people are willing to pay a fair price for value. However, when they see your product getting worse and worse and your business approach looking more and more like a Sopranos episode, it’s going to engender a certain bad faith in the marketplace.

Spend some goddamned money on artist development and ask a fair price and see if things don’t improve…

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