Re: WHAT IS THE CBDTPA?
They won't put anything like that in my computer. The broadband companies need to step in as well. If people can't download music then the market for high speed internet will be hurt severely. Why else would someone need 3.0 Mbps download speeds. They wouldn't. Get this. Sony is one of the companies that are involved with the RIAA about suing people for downloading music, but here they are producing mp3 players, cd-rs, and other mp3 related products. DUUUHH, maybe they should sue themselves. Downloading music is no different than recording it off the radio. So what if the quality may be a hair better, but even then you don't know for sure if what you're downloading is even any good. The RIAA is fighting a losing battle. They are just afraid that they won't be able to rip the bands off anymore. Once the bands realize that they can just put up their music on the net and go on tour, the record labels will go out of business. I have a friend who is in a band and they won't sign with Dreamworks because they know they'll get screwed. They are very good and may end up at Ozfest. These record labels try to make you believe that it costs so much to make a record, it doesn't. My friends band had their cd completely recorded and mastered professionally by a company in Hollywood for around $8000-$10000. The potential profits from a monthly fee subscription service is huge. They would no longer have to pay to make and distribute physical cds. Not to mention all the resources that would be saved or could be devoted elsewhere. The recording act of 1993 protects consumers from copyright lawsuits by using tapes or other recordable media to record music for personal use. WHAT'S THE DIFFERENCE?!? The method of obtaining the file is of no concern. Whether it was recorded or copied from a cd doesn't matter. The average consumer could care less about the small quality difference between recorded and ripped songs. IT IS NOT THE SAME as copying someones books or manuals and selling them. That is wrong. We're talking about personal use of something that WE CAN GET OFF OF THE RADIO. I guess the RIAA should start suing the radio stations for aiding consumers in copyright infringement. There Is no way that a D$%# cd should cost $20.00. Most movies only cost $20.00 and they cost a H%$L of a lot more to make than a friggin cd. The record labels are the real thiefs. With the internet, BANDS DO NOT NEED THEM anymore and they are fighting it because they will lose the ability to STEAL FROM THE BANDS. They would also lose the power to control what we listen to. To them that is unacceptable. They need to wake up and get their friggin heads out of their butts and realize that it isn't going away and that they will ultimately lose. They may win a few battles, but they WILL LOSE THE WAR!!! They should be trying to take advantage of this new technology and use it to their advantage. Instead, they would rather tick off the largest group of music purchasers out there. They have, over the past few years, done their best to brainwash people into thinking that they were thiefs if they downloaded music. I will never buy another cd as long as the RIAA keeps this crap up. If I have to, I will just record it off the radio and convert it to mp3 that way. WHATS THE DIFFERENCE?!?!?! The answer to that is that there is none. I know I may get flamed for this, but I don't care. That is how I feel about this issue
. <br /><br />James
