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

[dpuopolo at usa.net]

C'mon Bob!

The major labels have had almost 10 years to come up with a digital
distribution model. Indeed, years ago they HAD ONE HANDED TO THEM ON A
PLATINUM PLATTER!! One that already HAD millions of users-Napster! Instead of
embracing it for the cash cow it would have been, instead they sued it out of
business! What fools!  Yes, piracy affects the labels, but if they gave the
consumer what they wanted, they'd be doing fine. What they did was kind of
like Orban coming out with a rebuild of the Audimax and Volumax instead of the
Optimod 8000A. Instead, YOU realized what the marketplace WANTED and gave it
to them! The rest is history.  Actually, I find it very amusing that someone
like you who: "gets it" is defending those who either can't or won't!

-D

------ Original Message ------
Received: Mon, 22 Oct 2007 12:06:32 AM EDT
From: Robert Orban <rorban at earthlink.net>
Subject: Re: [BC] Arrested for just telling people where to	find	Copywrited
material.

At 02:46 PM 10/21/2007, you wrote:
 >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.