Internet Downloads?

[SquirrelDog]

Just want to hear opinions of the latest news of authorities cracking down on downloading songs and data on the net.

My opinion, it is stupid. I am just sharing what I have with my friends. Info comes in and out of your house everyday in the form of radio waves, don't get mad at me listening to the radio. Tape songs off the radio and make copies to give to friends, whats the difference.

When naptser started, record sales went up. Now, with the economy down, sales are not the best so the labels blame the internet trading.

I say go find a cure for AIDS and Cancer or something, who cares what people do on the internet. Just look at the porn on it.

Squirreldog

 

[bigD]

The RIAA is run by a bunch of people that don't understand a thing about technology. Their constant threats and accusations are doing nothing but alienating the very people that help to keep the industry afloat.

Simply, there's absolutely nothing they can do to stop song swapping. Every time they come up with some solution, someone else is going to find a way around it. The programmers working to keep file sharing alive are far superior to anything the RIAA, Microsoft, or any other tech company can hire to stop it. The crazy sick hacker/programmer types that dedicate their lives to code wouldn't be caught dead working for a group like the RIAA. So the people that want to swap songs will continue to do so - there's no way to stop it.

What they *should* have done is embrace the mp3 format immediately and set up sites where people can download songs for a nominal fee. We're starting to see these sites now, but it should have happened 7 years ago when the mp3 format took off. Most people *want* to do the right thing, and if you give them an avenue to do so - they will. I'd happily pay .99 per song when I'm guaranteed a 200KB/s data rate, and a high quality, skip free mp3. The people that continue to swap songs for free - well, you can't do anything about them anyway. But instead of embracing the technology immediately, the RIAA decided to treat *everyone* like criminals, and now they're sitting around whining about how the public doesn't support them.

The industry is changing, and the RIAA is resisting the change. They better get wise to it soon, or they'll be going the way of the dinasour before long.

 

[dmspilot00]

The same exact thing happened when the VCR was invented. Companies complained to no end, but eventually lost in court.