People vs. Music

[bobw]

and the girl didn't have to pay a dime of that $2000.00.

[cfleck]

whys that?

[Arden]

Despite the hardships the RIAA put on that girl and her family, that's not a very good lesson. It's saying she can do something wrong, whether she knows it's wrong or not, and someone else will take care of it.

What the RIAA should do to bolster CD sales is to allow us to custom order CD's with the songs we want on them, like X, Y, and Z from Artist 1 and A, B, and C from Artist 2, and charge so much for the amount of music on it, plus maybe a little extra for coverart and such. For example, I could order a CD with my 5 favorite Rage Against the Machine tunes and 5 Guns'N'Roses tunes, and it might come out to 55 minutes, and they'd charge perhaps $11 (a dollar for 5 minutes sounds reasonable, doesn't it?) and I could order a custom-made Rage and Guns cover for $1.50 extra.

If CD prices dropped $10 across the board (besides those already under $10), I'd definitely start buying more CD's. CD's have always been a sticky issue in my family because they're so expensive.

[nb3004]

What the RIAA should do to bolster CD sales is to allow us to custom order CD's with the songs we want on them

this is a cool idea and would be great, however it would make artists producing current music abandon making albumns and just make a single or too since people would only want what they here on tv or the radio ,

[adambyte]

Originally posted by voice-
I'm into rare, old songs. They don't produce or sell them any longer. Is it a crime to download?

Dude, have you looked into the iTunes store? They have just as much old music as they do new music. I haven't seen so much Miles Davis since.... well, the point is, they have plenty of old music. And I'm sure the store will just keep growing.

[toast]

My best P2P client is my dad. He's got a huge collection of vynils and CDs, unequalled on the Web by its quality and exhaustiveness. He downloads very very fast, too.

[nb3004]

so much Miles Davis since

Miles Davis is amazing

[voice-]

Originally posted by adambyte
Dude, have you looked into the iTunes store? They have just as much old music as they do new music. I haven't seen so much Miles Davis since.... well, the point is, they have plenty of old music. And I'm sure the store will just keep growing.

Let's use a real life example. I was looking a few days ago for a song called "Pussy" by "Lords of Acid"
I found it using KaZaa, WinMX and Poisoned, I challenge you to find it on iTMS or your local CD shop.