Thought DMCA was harshing you bro?

[joshh]

What? what kind of bullshit is this. There is never a point where you've "made enough money" as a company. Money makes the world go round and enables good things (and bad).

Capping a person's earnings, or a company's earnings, is stupid.

Those were Obama's words.

[Kruzen]

Just remember that there's a point when you've made enough money...

What? what kind of bullshit is this. There is never a point where you've "made enough money" as a company. Money makes the world go round and enables good things (and bad).

Capping a person's earnings, or a company's earnings, is stupid.

[z31maniac]

The recording industry and the entertainment industry are not the same thing. What the artist makes off each CD is such a pittance that it might as well be nothing. If you download all the music then send the band $1, you'd just given them more money than selling 60~100 albums. When an artist releases an album for free, they make MORE money on concerts and other things. This being proven over and over. Bands have also have a lot of success selling more albums when they make songs freely available to get people hooked.
I'm not sure where you pulled the 1/10 statistic from but it might as well be your ass because even the recording industry itself is making more money than ever.

Movies? apples and oranges on that example but people still pay to go to movies despite being able to own them for less.

Let's not forget the initial reaction they had to tapes, cd's, dvd's. Each new technology they fought tooth and nail to stop, and look where they are now. They would die without that stuff. On that principal alone I say force them to adapt, don't change laws to prop them up.

You have got to be the most pedantic person on this board.

[joshh]

Just remember that there's a point when you've made enough money...

[Wiglaf]

http://techdirt.com/articles/20100225/1602498317.shtml

[Wiglaf]

The recording industry and the entertainment industry are not the same thing. What the artist makes off each CD is such a pittance that it might as well be nothing. If you download all the music then send the band $1, you'd just given them more money than selling 60~100 albums. When an artist releases an album for free, they make MORE money on concerts and other things. This being proven over and over. Bands have also have a lot of success selling more albums when they make songs freely available to get people hooked.
I'm not sure where you pulled the 1/10 statistic from but it might as well be your ass because even the recording industry itself is making more money than ever.

Movies? apples and oranges on that example but people still pay to go to movies despite being able to own them for less.

Let's not forget the initial reaction they had to tapes, cd's, dvd's. Each new technology they fought tooth and nail to stop, and look where they are now. They would die without that stuff. On that principal alone I say force them to adapt, don't change laws to prop them up.

[z31maniac]

How does piracy benefit the entertainment industry?

Since a decade ago, album sales are averaging only 1/10th what they were then. Album sales now are at a level comparable to the 70s.

[markseven]

I read through Fairban's first link - I'm don't see what the problem is.

[ck_taft325is]

Bush and Obama are not that different in many ways.

They are both Progressives.

[Wiglaf]

not sure if it's any worse now than before. Bush and Cheney took the same stance, as evidenced by the DMCA and freedom of information act.. Along with some court winnings the MPAA+RIAA has been gaining a lot of ground over the last decade.

They've been international about it too, in some smaller countries they got their way so easily that they count each copy/infringement as a felony. They've been leveraging larger ones like france and australia the same way, not sure if anyone has caved yet but the headlines of the bills they are trying to get passed are downright scary.

[Need4Speed1299]

Thats scary.

[Farbin Kaiber]

I would say this is the beginning of the end, but the beginning was a while ago. I hear things speed up when they spiral out of control.

[Need4Speed1299]

Unbelievable. Our freedom of speech on here should only be controlled by the private owner(s).

[Wiglaf]

yeah that is scary, MPAA lobbyists getting their way will hurt us all. :(

[Farbin Kaiber]

Fixed first linky.