Become Anti- Music Industry
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Want to best the RIAA at its own game? Don’t buy music, its as easy as that. But then you do you enjoy all the music you don’t have but love?
We read it in the news everyday. The major music industry players like Sony BMG or EMI are reporting losses all over the place and blame it solely on internet pirates. Internet pirates are actually a very good excuse for bad times. Hard facts do not exist and no one is able to check on the numbers the MI provides for losses due to internet pirates.
They don´t seem to realize that they criminalize their own customers with measures like copy protected cd´s and rootkit software installed on customers pc.
More and more customers are becoming aware of this and are looking for good alternatives. Don´t buy Cd´s from the major record labels anymore but still enjoy music, is that possible at all ?
Yes it is possible, there are numerous ways one could get his daily dosis of music and even download it to his personal computer without feeding the dragon.
I do numbers 3 and 4.
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Look at this thread at Mike Evangelist’s blog: http://writersblocklive.com/?p=62 it’s becoming huge!!!
that is one huge thread. I have always tried to purchase music, since cd’s at least, when cassettes were mainstream, everyone copied them and no one complained, I personally try to purchase music, but music companies are making it harder for the customer, which is the opposite of how it should be. there are companies, like apple, trying to make it easier for customers without the customers resorting to piracy, but others, like Sony, seem to want to sell less music by narrowing the way people can enjoy music, which is fatuous since that is why music was created.
The thing is though, they are only harming thier customers. Each time someone produces a DRM protected cd, the consumers are getting more and more aggravated. The “pirates” will find a way around the DRM, and so far, seem to be succeeding.
So overall, they are harming themselves, because the people will not want to buy the stuff that they can’t use the way they want, while the pirates will still do what they want.