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   Michael "TheZorch" Haney, 14 Dec 2005 @ 3:44am

   
   

   The Last Days of the RIAA

   I've said it before, and I'll say it again. We're seeing the death throws of the RIAA. It took the SonyBMG XCP crap to finally bring the problems of the RIAA to light and make the general public finally wise up and listen.
   
   Recording studios will turn a blind eye to artists and bands when they complain about copy-protection hurting their reputations and income. Eventually these artists and bands will break off form the studoes and go into business for themselves selling via the Internet. It was start a dangerous trend that may one day lead to the end of the RIAA as we know it.
   
   Good riddance I say.
   
   In this new digital age the RIAA has outlived its usefulness and has become a serious burdon. We don't need them anymore. Its time for them to finally realize that and disband.

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   Music Fanboy # 10, 14 Dec 2005 @ 4:07am

   
   

   Stop it!

   Just stop buying the damn music in the first place, at least from traditional places that sell CD's...or what they call CD's...
   
   Download from the Band's website, go to Magnatune, etc.
   
   The old model is evil.

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   Amanda Rush, 14 Dec 2005 @ 6:56am

   
   

   Re: The Last Days of the RIAA

   I think the reason the RIAA is as useless as it is is due to the fact that they refuse to work with the technology that's already there and being quite capably exploited by the end user. They started this "us-against-them" battle sort of with Knapster, and then really ramped it up with the internet radio crowd. The amount of paperwork that has to be filled out and the money that has to be spent just to guarantee the right to play someone's song is ridiculous, especially when you consider that, though the bigger stations aren't necessarily profitless, they're not making nearly as much as the terrestrial stations. I'd love to see a campaign that serves to educate artists and producers in the use of the vast technology, available both for the PC and the Mac, so that they can efficiently use it in order to cut the studios out of the equation, spending a lot less, and thus giving the record companies a lot less in recoupable costs.

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   Binsky, 14 Dec 2005 @ 7:02am

   
   

   Re: The Last Days of the RIAA

   This is going to be fun... Will the band now be sued for copying and distributing their own licensed work?
   
   I'm glad to see more and more people from inside the music industry seemingly realise that this cannot be the right path. Now if only the ones in charge of it would act on this...
   
   

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   Ben, 14 Dec 2005 @ 7:29am

   
   

   They can be

   Their music probably belongs in part to Sony, provided the songs were not recorded again.

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   Jeremy, 14 Dec 2005 @ 8:27am

   
   

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   I think that the bands should just start making there own website, and have people pay 99 cents to download a song, they will probably get more profit that way. Hey maybe 50 Cent could have people download songs for 50 cents. HEHE

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