Comments on: The RIAA strikes again http://davesmidlife.com/2005/12/26/the-riaa-strikes-again/ Musings of a middle-aged guy waiting to see what he'll be when he grows up Mon, 01 Dec 2008 21:50:23 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 By: sim http://davesmidlife.com/2005/12/26/the-riaa-strikes-again/#comment-17 sim Sat, 31 Dec 2005 16:23:00 +0000 http://davesmidlife.com/?p=9#comment-17 and they strike again, in India! On the latest Coldplay CD, X&Y... which happens to be really popular here. <a HREF="http://itch.in/journal/bad-bad-coldplay" rel="nofollow">Bad, Bad Coldplay</A> This has been the last straw on the camel's back for me, I'm done buying music CDs. and they strike again, in India! On the latest Coldplay CD, X&Y… which happens to be really popular here.
Bad, Bad Coldplay

This has been the last straw on the camel’s back for me, I’m done buying music CDs.

]]> By: sim http://davesmidlife.com/2005/12/26/the-riaa-strikes-again/#comment-16 sim Thu, 29 Dec 2005 07:55:00 +0000 http://davesmidlife.com/?p=9#comment-16 Hi Dave, Read this interesting Blogpost by Dark Lanternist on his blog: <a HREF="http://dark-lanternist.openaether.org/?p=12" rel="nofollow">RIAA shooting itself in the foot and quickly releoading</A> Hi Dave,
Read this interesting Blogpost by Dark Lanternist on his blog: RIAA shooting itself in the foot and quickly releoading

]]> By: sim http://davesmidlife.com/2005/12/26/the-riaa-strikes-again/#comment-15 sim Mon, 26 Dec 2005 18:58:00 +0000 http://davesmidlife.com/?p=9#comment-15 A poor deceased lady and a 12 year old girl who thought she was paying KaZaa for the music? God! I really don't know what's going on with these nutcases. I love buying CDs from the local music store and find it so much better than downloading mp3s off the net. You get to hold the CD in your hand, go through the inlet, read the lyrics, look at the nice pictures and it's also better quality. The flip-side is that I believe P2P networks to be awesome! You get to share music how you normally would (eg. a friend really likes a song you have and asks you to burn it for him/her) and you get to know people with similar taste in music and maybe get introduced to more music that you didn't know existed and that you really like. I think shutting down WinMx and Audiogalaxy was a real bad idea. I usually downloaded a song or 2 that I'd heard of and then if I liked the album, went out and bought it! This isn't just some story, I actually did go and buy the CD! But recently I've grown vary of the music industry. I think putting rootkits and spyware on your computer to trace how many times you've heard the songs and how many copies you've made of the CD is just plain evil! I haven't had a rootkit installed, but a friend of mine from Germany brought along a few CDs of hers when she was visiting me over the summer and as soon as put the disc into my computer, it installed some ugly player.. without my consent!!!!! And then, when we wanted to get the names of Windows Media, it wouldn't allow Media Player to detect it! That's just pushing limits... If I'm not mistaken, which I might be, the CD was the second Pink album. To sum up I wanna say that the music industry is driving itself headfirst into the a the ground. For all you know, we'll soon have musicians rebelling and starting their own Podcasts with quality songs available for download. That would be great wouldn't it? And we could pay them directly! They'd get the entire 10$ for the album through PayPal or whatever! Why do they need the those companies anymore? The distribution channel has become shorter, it's now possible to have a direct link between the artists and us! Just like the Word Nerds Podcast. I'm not getting it through a cable operator or a radio/record company... it's a direct download. What do you think Dave? A poor deceased lady and a 12 year old girl who thought she was paying KaZaa for the music? God! I really don’t know what’s going on with these nutcases.

I love buying CDs from the local music store and find it so much better than downloading mp3s off the net. You get to hold the CD in your hand, go through the inlet, read the lyrics, look at the nice pictures and it’s also better quality.

The flip-side is that I believe P2P networks to be awesome!
You get to share music how you normally would (eg. a friend really likes a song you have and asks you to burn it for him/her) and you get to know people with similar taste in music and maybe get introduced to more music that you didn’t know existed and that you really like.

I think shutting down WinMx and Audiogalaxy was a real bad idea. I usually downloaded a song or 2 that I’d heard of and then if I liked the album, went out and bought it! This isn’t just some story, I actually did go and buy the CD!

But recently I’ve grown vary of the music industry. I think putting rootkits and spyware on your computer to trace how many times you’ve heard the songs and how many copies you’ve made of the CD is just plain evil!

I haven’t had a rootkit installed, but a friend of mine from Germany brought along a few CDs of hers when she was visiting me over the summer and as soon as put the disc into my computer, it installed some ugly player.. without my consent!!!!! And then, when we wanted to get the names of Windows Media, it wouldn’t allow Media Player to detect it! That’s just pushing limits… If I’m not mistaken, which I might be, the CD was the second Pink album.

To sum up I wanna say that the music industry is driving itself headfirst into the a the ground. For all you know, we’ll soon have musicians rebelling and starting their own Podcasts with quality songs available for download. That would be great wouldn’t it? And we could pay them directly! They’d get the entire 10$ for the album through PayPal or whatever! Why do they need the those companies anymore? The distribution channel has become shorter, it’s now possible to have a direct link between the artists and us! Just like the Word Nerds Podcast. I’m not getting it through a cable operator or a radio/record company… it’s a direct download.

What do you think Dave?

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