Music piracy continues despite legitimate alternatives
Thursday, November 13, 2003 by Frogboy | Discussion: WinCustomize News
Despite the availability of iTunes and other services, a near majority of WinCustomize users in a recent poll indicated that they'd just continue to download the music "for free".
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Jafo
Reply #22 Monday, November 17, 2003 8:44 AM
Reply #22 Monday, November 17, 2003 8:44 AM
geekboy....You can 'not agree', but you will be wrong.
The act of uploading/downloading a music file without the artist's [or his agent's] permission, no matter what the reason or motive is public distribution....and is a violation of copyright, ergo 'piracy'....
geekboy2000
Reply #23 Monday, November 17, 2003 9:06 AM
Reply #23 Monday, November 17, 2003 9:06 AM
Right. Well, thanks to the RIAA's thug lawyers, by definition, that might very well be true. What I'm saying though, is that it doesn't matter. They can try to legislate their way (and have) toward making it a crime to "try before buying", but it's too late. In today's modern world, the barn door's wide open, and there's no closing it. Instead of trying to paint everyone as a criminal, the record industry should be working on ways to win consumer loyality by making such a shareware system a reality in some way, and/or offering tracks at *very* significantly lower prices. 79 to 99 cents a track is ludicrous. As another recent example of the insanity that they're trying to ram down our throats: The Beatles "Let it Be Naked". After all the other re-releases of Beatles tracks over the years (including the Anthology collection), now Paul McCartney has decided that folks should pay (full price, of course) yet again for the same songs. This is just one reason, why people *are* downloading before buying. For those who never owned Let it Be in any format, it might be worth it. But for folks who bought the album, some of the other re-releases/alternate takes, this is nothing short of robbery. Personally, I give a "tip of that hat" to anyone who listens first, and then says, "S*rew you Paul, enough is enough". OTOH, if that CD was released at $5.95, the artist and industry might be demonstrating an understanding of what represents value, and what doesn't. I don't think the music downloading public wants or expects any more than that. Treat us right, and we'll buy your music. Keep ripping us off, and well, we'll do what we have to do to spend our money wisely.
Heitkeri
Reply #24 Monday, November 17, 2003 5:21 PM
Reply #24 Monday, November 17, 2003 5:21 PM
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You know, if these music companies really wanna be smart about it, they should just let us download their music. It's mp3's for crying out loud. MP3's suck as opposed to .ogg files. If people want the music in full quality they have to buy the cd and all. Or an even better idea would be to set up an electronic customization program over the internet. That way, you won't get songs that you don't like on their cd's. Here's my idea, I don't know if this is any good, but here goes.
CDs will be custom made. The customer will get to choose from all of the songs that the artist has made and select the ones that they want. If they select more songs than can fit on a cd, it will just spill over to another cd and the customer will be charged by song. Each song will have an individual price depending on how popular that song is. The server will then burn the cd, use all the info that you typed into the form to be able to print a shipping label and box it and send it to you through the mail just like any other online purchase.
If I ran the music industry, that would be what I would do. I especially think that the individual pricing with each song would be advantageous. Less popular songs will be cheaper, more popular songs will be more expensive. Oh and if someone wants just one song, they can buy just that song. That way, people will actually buy from the artist instead of getting it illegally online. The psychology here is that the customer doesn't want to pay for a whole cd to get just one song, so they figure, well then i'm downloading it off the internet since I can download exactly what i want when i want it. Its in the interest of the music industry. If a song is really really popular than the artist knows that something was done right with that song, perhaps even take the most popular songs into consideration when composing new songs. It could help the music industry evolve and improve, plus musicians get feedback from consumers directly by looking at the sales of each song.
You know, if these music companies really wanna be smart about it, they should just let us download their music. It's mp3's for crying out loud. MP3's suck as opposed to .ogg files. If people want the music in full quality they have to buy the cd and all. Or an even better idea would be to set up an electronic customization program over the internet. That way, you won't get songs that you don't like on their cd's. Here's my idea, I don't know if this is any good, but here goes.
CDs will be custom made. The customer will get to choose from all of the songs that the artist has made and select the ones that they want. If they select more songs than can fit on a cd, it will just spill over to another cd and the customer will be charged by song. Each song will have an individual price depending on how popular that song is. The server will then burn the cd, use all the info that you typed into the form to be able to print a shipping label and box it and send it to you through the mail just like any other online purchase.
If I ran the music industry, that would be what I would do. I especially think that the individual pricing with each song would be advantageous. Less popular songs will be cheaper, more popular songs will be more expensive. Oh and if someone wants just one song, they can buy just that song. That way, people will actually buy from the artist instead of getting it illegally online. The psychology here is that the customer doesn't want to pay for a whole cd to get just one song, so they figure, well then i'm downloading it off the internet since I can download exactly what i want when i want it. Its in the interest of the music industry. If a song is really really popular than the artist knows that something was done right with that song, perhaps even take the most popular songs into consideration when composing new songs. It could help the music industry evolve and improve, plus musicians get feedback from consumers directly by looking at the sales of each song.
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Reply #21 Monday, November 17, 2003 12:15 AM