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Amiga News and Community Announcements => Amiga News and Community Announcements => General Internet News => Topic started by: PhatAgnus on July 04, 2002, 12:55:36 AM
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Seems the RIAA is at it again trying to crack down on unauthorized music file downloading. Full story can be found at msnbc.com/news/general (http://www.msnbc.com/news/775684.asp). And so, the plot thickens...
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Those people ought to get a life! What if they put some effort into catching the people who spread kiddie porn and such #### instead? I'd bet they could sue them for spreading mp3'z too...
:-x :-x :-x
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booo hooo hooo, sales are down 5% worldwide, boo hoo hoo! the first time since the introduction of the CD, boo hoo! What's their biggest market? USA. What has happened in the last year in the USA? Recession. These people need to get a clue.
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They should lower the prices of the music cd's. No wonder everybody downloads it. To much money for a music cd. And don't come to me with that payed download music crap like they turned Napster in. The horror.
Coder
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sales are down 5% worldwide
They might do better if they sold some halfway decent music, instead of polluting the world with prancing peroxide blondes with too much makeup and no vocal technique, pretty boys with spiky haircuts who all look exactly alike, and ageing overweight tenors whose voice went west long ago, and actually gave musicians with more character and talent than looks a fighting chance.
muttermuttermutter stifling innovation muttermuttermutter same as the movies :-x
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@anarchic_teapot
I agree totally. I don't think I have bought a CD from an artist on a major label in years! About all the bands I like are on independant labels. Sorry, no Limp D**k S**t, Brittney (pap)Smears or Enima for me!
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Poor guys sales down 5% :-(
Yep I'll agree, CD's are too much, they are cheaper to produce than Tapes, but cost more.
It must be my fault I don't think I've bought more than 2 CD's since CD's became standard .. oh wait that's cause rap and techo took over all the radio stations and I stopped listening to the radio :-P
Now what is it :-o oh yeh those sweet sugary boy bands :-o
:-) Gimme some of that old time rock and roll :-)
Ok, not that old :-D
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Hell, I couldn't give a care about the cost of local CDs, those are just fine, but when I'm going out and paying 31 freaking US bucks on a single CD German import that's highway robbery. Over the last five years I've purchased a total of 10 new CDs, all of them are thanks to the likes of Napster and others. It's not from movies, it's not from radio (no good stations here in Kansas City anyway), it's from the online audio sharing do I get my new music from. Why is this? Because along with anarchic_teapot, I'm sick of the BS pumped out in droves by the RIAA.
I'm not up with the old standard artists either, they've all but sold out to the RIAA signing their soul away to the "devil incarnate". I haven't seen one good new talent to hit the normal radio stations in the last two years. I loved Ugly Kid Joe, till they sold out and made a second album. I used to dig Anthrax until they were censored all to hell (starting up a posse). Even my friends that I grew up with in Puddle of Mud sold out... they are all arrogant bastards now anyway, nothing like the old stuff.
We the people are not the puppets in which to toy with. We have the right to choose and the right to our own opinion. This force feeding crock that keeps coming from the RIAA is old and needs to die a horrid death. If you ask me, I'd rather see the RIAA get killed off before MS or AOL.
"Come on in kid, sit down and have a cigar, with your looks and my talent I can see we will go far." - Music Lyrics that actually made sense
/me hands soapbox to the next person in line.
:evil: :pint:
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/me picks up the soapbox
This is what happens when fat, rich, cigar smoking maggots in their leather chairs decide what is art and when the gazillion of sheep all go 'beeeeeee' in order to fit the group. Quantity over quality. Conformism over individuality.
The world is going nuts.
Ok i'll pass on the torch now...
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Hi all!
I've posted a message in the M$ WMP security grief (http://amiga.org/forums/showthread.php?t=42974) thread that relates to this one.
It's very interesting... honest.
-zudo :-o