arstechnica.com— File-sharing over P2P networks has been public enemy number one for the music industry. One study calls the RIAA's preoccupation with P2P into question.
May 31, 2007View in Crawl 4
The real problem is that consumers don't realize that it's their job and their duty to be consumers and purchase the RIAA's products regardless of whether they really want it or not. That is the job of the consumer. So really, consumers deserve lawsuits and such to be held accountable for not doing their jobs./sarcasm
There is no way that ripping cds between friends or "streamripping" of internet radio is actually more popular than p2p sharing. Maybe in 1999, not now. The easiest method will always be the most popular, and ripping cds and streamripping is definitely not as easy as downloading a torrent or searching lime wire. This is just another article slanted in order to somehow show p2p as an insignificant source of pirating, when it is in fact the most popular. The whole reason why pirating became an issue is because of p2p and the impact on a global scale of trading music, that it brought.What would be more harmful, some douche copying a cd for his friend, or the same douche offering to seed the same cd to 20-30 people in a torrent? Then those 20-30 people go on to seed to another 100. That's the nature of p2p, specifically bittorrent, and that's why it will always be that much more of a threat to record companies and the RIAA.I don't know much about the NDP group, but they obviously didn't take the studies seriously enough to come up with a number like 37% and 38%. They obviously didn't survey enough people, or just surveyed people who didn't know any better.
umm .. why are all you pussies here complaining about that which is blatantly obvious, the RIAA and their cousins are a bunch of loud mouth pricks and prickettes that uses a pseudo-random-number-generator to determine damage costs, as for the stats they publish, it's just a case of hear-say and averaging ( basically they take ten people, and out of that ten they see how many are umm, pirates then get a random number multiply that by a million and that's your stats) ...anyway ...i don't think posting here is gonna do anything,why not digg them down?<a class="user" href="http://www.riaa.com/default.asp">http://www.riaa.com/default.asp</a> , anyone ?
What the RIAA won't admit is that they had artificially inflated sales for at least the past two or three decades as the result of changing media formats. People bought vinyl, then they bought tape, then they bought CD's...all of the same albums by the same artists. No one is buying new CD's because the market is already saturated (that and they are too f*cking expensive). There is not enough new music coming out to create the sales volume generated by people updating their old vinyl and tape albums to CD. Additionally, the technology for moving high-quality audio from CD's to other media is readily available to the consumer. Back in the 80's and 90's CD burners were well out of reach of the average consumer. Today there is nothing stopping Johnny Zitface from ripping his Mom's Fleetwood Mac CD to disk as MP3, etc. Digital music doesn't wear out.
wiiiJun 1, 2007
The article sounds like streamripping is illegal, but I think it's not, at least in Germany. Any layers here?
rarsonJun 1, 2007
The real problem is that consumers don't realize that it's their job and their duty to be consumers and purchase the RIAA's products regardless of whether they really want it or not. That is the job of the consumer. So really, consumers deserve lawsuits and such to be held accountable for not doing their jobs./sarcasm
craig42Jun 1, 2007
There is no way that ripping cds between friends or "streamripping" of internet radio is actually more popular than p2p sharing. Maybe in 1999, not now. The easiest method will always be the most popular, and ripping cds and streamripping is definitely not as easy as downloading a torrent or searching lime wire. This is just another article slanted in order to somehow show p2p as an insignificant source of pirating, when it is in fact the most popular. The whole reason why pirating became an issue is because of p2p and the impact on a global scale of trading music, that it brought.What would be more harmful, some douche copying a cd for his friend, or the same douche offering to seed the same cd to 20-30 people in a torrent? Then those 20-30 people go on to seed to another 100. That's the nature of p2p, specifically bittorrent, and that's why it will always be that much more of a threat to record companies and the RIAA.I don't know much about the NDP group, but they obviously didn't take the studies seriously enough to come up with a number like 37% and 38%. They obviously didn't survey enough people, or just surveyed people who didn't know any better.
norikoJun 1, 2007
umm .. why are all you pussies here complaining about that which is blatantly obvious, the RIAA and their cousins are a bunch of loud mouth pricks and prickettes that uses a pseudo-random-number-generator to determine damage costs, as for the stats they publish, it's just a case of hear-say and averaging ( basically they take ten people, and out of that ten they see how many are umm, pirates then get a random number multiply that by a million and that's your stats) ...anyway ...i don't think posting here is gonna do anything,why not digg them down?<a class="user" href="http://www.riaa.com/default.asp">http://www.riaa.com/default.asp</a> , anyone ?
tomaroccoJun 2, 2007
What the RIAA won't admit is that they had artificially inflated sales for at least the past two or three decades as the result of changing media formats. People bought vinyl, then they bought tape, then they bought CD's...all of the same albums by the same artists. No one is buying new CD's because the market is already saturated (that and they are too f*cking expensive). There is not enough new music coming out to create the sales volume generated by people updating their old vinyl and tape albums to CD. Additionally, the technology for moving high-quality audio from CD's to other media is readily available to the consumer. Back in the 80's and 90's CD burners were well out of reach of the average consumer. Today there is nothing stopping Johnny Zitface from ripping his Mom's Fleetwood Mac CD to disk as MP3, etc. Digital music doesn't wear out.
thojenJun 2, 2007
Everyone really should check out this new documentary:<a class="user" href="http://www.goodcopybadcopy.net/">http://www.goodcopybadcopy.net/</a>- it shows us exactly how it is with an aging defensive industry succeeding in pulling apart our basic rights to share information which always have been the basis of creative enterprise.The movie was just shown on danish television as part of a feature on copyrights. Also shown was ALternative Freedom:<a class="user" href="http://alternativefreedom.org/">http://alternativefreedom.org/</a>
simplejoe79Jun 5, 2007
When free music is available, is there any need of piracy?
qiuyjunJun 6, 2008
everyone want free music.the p2p software maybe is the way.
elgstrJan 3, 2009
Frank Zappa said, ?There is more stupidity than hydrogen in the universe, and it has a long shelf life.?Racism has a long history in music. Jazz's Dirty Little Secrets: Racism And Sexism, <a class="user" href="http://www.broowaha.com/article.php?id=3954.">http://www.broowaha.com/article.php?id=3954.</a> So does sexism.Alternate Visions Of The Musical Self, <a class="user" href="http://www.broowaha.com/article.php?id=3619">http://www.broowaha.com/article.php?id=3619</a>I'm Going Extinct, I'm Going Extinct. Oh, I'm Not, <a class="user" href="http://www.broowaha.com/article.php?id=4103">http://www.broowaha.com/article.php?id=4103</a>