[BC] Arrested for just telling people where to find Copywrited material.

[Robert Meuser]

Bob:

I must disagree. I a have very varied music tastes. They vary from Opera 
and classical to Hip  hop and Dance. BUT I will NEVER purchase another 
CD nor will I purchase current downloaded music because of the piss poor 
mastering of the current product. I can still get some dance and a 
little hip hop on Vinyl. Any classical I want must come from a file 
sharing site. If it is not -20 FS I do not want anything to do with it. 
Tell your record company buddies to produce decent audio or prepare for 
unemployment. I will do what I can to help in creating their demise and 
not shed a tear until they are gone.

R





Robert Orban wrote:
> At 02:46 PM 10/21/2007, you wrote:
> 
>> >>An old friend of mine was just laid off from Universal's marketing
>> department in Los Angeles, along with his boss and 11 other staff
>> members -- Universal nuked his whole department because the company's
>> sales downturn made it economically impossible to continue running
>> it. Mark had been working there for over 5 years. Don't delude
>> yourself; file sharing *is* hurting real people and so far, digital
>> downloads are not making up for lost CD sales ;-(<<
>>
>> Maybe they ought to spend more time worrying about having viable product
>> to sell and less time running after children and 75-year-old
>> grandmothers for $3000 settlement payments...while they simultaneously
>> delude themselves into thinking that such actions will curtail illegal
>> downloads.
> 
> 
> They *do* have a viable product to sell. The fact that it is being 
> illegally downloaded so much should tell you something. There seems to 
> be a fantasy among subscribers to this list that the record companies 
> don't make products that people want to buy just because the product 
> doesn't much appeal to the 50+ crowd that hangs out here. If the record 
> companies did not have compelling products, they wouldn't be stolen so 
> much! But no matter how compelling your product, you can't compete with 
> "free."
> 
> To make a not-so-strained analogy, suppose that radio advertisers in the 
> last five years or so found a way of illegally getting their spots on 
> the radio without paying for them and without the stations' consent. 
> Would you then smugly say that "radio must find a new business model"? 
> What would you say to the person who said that "radio advertising is no 
> longer a viable product because it lacks appeal"? Sometimes changing 
> business models is far easier said than done.