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- andyakadum, on 10/10/2007, -18/+124I think this is because:
1. It's hard to find music stores that support Linux. ( My iTunes store library useless after I switched a few years ago ). If you own the vinyls, tapes and cd's, surely you already have paid for the right to listen to that music?
2. Users are becoming aware of their rights, and they dont want DRM taking them away. ( Apparently the law says you can put your music on any of your music devices. DRM is a result of companies taking the law into their own hands ) - mattfugitive, on 10/10/2007, -6/+109Everybody say Arrrrr!
- inactive, on 10/10/2007, -6/+63Sell the songs for 10 cents each and encourage buyers to pay to see live concerts. It is soooo easy. Even John Kerry could figure that out.
- firefox15, on 10/10/2007, -2/+56FTA: "the music industry is under pressure to find better ways to distribute its content"
It's called online distribution--something the RIAA doesn't understand. - Senn, on 10/10/2007, -3/+47While I'd like to believe that people are becoming wary of DRM, most people I've spoken to about it haven't got the foggiest clue what it is or what it's about, and it's incredibly frustrating.
I think file sharing has grown simply by word of mouth, and that little fact that it's free (except the internet connection fee of course). People get a taste of it and that's it, they download all the music they could ever want, while not realising the legal situation, or simply not caring enough about it. - Bartboy919, on 10/10/2007, -7/+41Sorry to break your dreams there andy, but if you asked some random kid on the street who pirates a ***** ton of music what LINUX is, he would probably tell you its his the laundry detergent he uses. Piracy is not at an all time high because of an OS only hardcore geeks use.
- dogstar0125, on 10/10/2007, -2/+32This is a BS article. It's based on a survey rather than on any real measure of the number of illegal downloads. They also make no mention of DRM or interoperability issues as a possible reason for the slowdown in the growth of legal downloads. And how about the quality of the content offered by all of the mainstream record labels? Hey, I hear the Spice Girls are getting back together. I wouldn't waste bandwidth downloading this crap and I sure as hell wouldn't pay for it.
- inactive, on 10/10/2007, -5/+34You know what sucks? when you pirate a cd, then get pissed off because it doesnt even have 1 good song, you wasted the 10 min it took to download it, put it on your mp3 player, and listen to it. When then happens, i think wow, im glad i didn't buy this for sure
- cryptocom, on 10/10/2007, -1/+25Ok....here's the deal. I'm an artist, in every sense of the word. I make music because it fills a need in my life to turn what I feel into something real that can be shared and experienced again. There is nothing that I enjoy more than taking sounds and notes and audio of all sorts, and shaping them into a pure expression of my mood. I don't get paid for it....I don't advertise...I don't charge for my music. The reward I get for my music is the comments, both critical and commending, that I receive from my listeners. I value this feedback because it is rewarding and allows me to grow. I personally hope the entire music industry crashes and falls headlong into oblivion. The majority of commercial artists have completely no idea what true art is, or what music is supposed to accomplish. Every time I see 50Cent on some stage, talking about cappin' homeys and how bad the street is, while he sits in his multimillion-dollar mansion...or ***** Britany Spears going from no-talent child-money-tree to whacked-out Paris-wannabe....or the two billion stupid-ass 'alternative' bands out there that all sound exactly the same and wear the same *****-looking clothes........I can't help but just shake my head and hope that the whole industry just falls apart. And that is exactly what is happening. When all the money is gone, and artists can't make a dime to save their soul...THAT is precisely when good music will start coming back. I mean REAL hip-hop that you can FEEL. REAL rock that makes your head nod. And yes, REAL electronic music that takes you away from reality for a brief blissful moment.
.....ok, sorry for my rant....but this is how I feel. - Tylerbot, on 10/10/2007, -14/+33F*cking DRM.
- p0tent1al, on 10/10/2007, -0/+16This is an article that fully explains why people download illegally, and what should be done about it. If anyone wants to submit this to digg, be my guest, it is an excellent read that I don't think any of the "Anti-Pirating Brigade" could refute.
http://www.scottmccloud.com/comics/icst/icst-6/icst-6-full.html - schmik07, on 10/10/2007, -0/+15The sound technicians and engineers have already been paid for their contribution(s) to making the records. You're not stealing from them by downloading music because they wouldn't have earned anything extra from a legitimate sale anyway.
- deadbaby, on 10/10/2007, -0/+15Bands just need to start adding PayPal Donate buttons to their site. I'd gladly give my favorite bands money if it was all going straight into their pocket.
- chrisutley, on 10/10/2007, -6/+21The only reason most people steal music is because (1) it's easy to do and (2) the likelihood of getting caught is low - which leads me to believe most people will steal if it's convenient to do so.
- EricJD, on 10/10/2007, -0/+15How do they know how much music is being downloaded illegally?
- plantfood, on 10/10/2007, -0/+14what about the artists that suck too much to perform live? ie ashlee simpson
- inactive, on 10/10/2007, -1/+14good enough, let's stop now.
- Wootery, on 10/10/2007, -1/+14"well, maybe not, because it moves people away from OSX, but oh well."
Considering iTunes is available for Windows, it's hardly a reason people use OS X.
@op
"I thought that Linux and OS X were both unix-like systems, right?"
Different APIs though, eg C++/Qt rather than Obj-C/Cocoa, so it would require a complete rewrite.
I think the issue is that Jobs doesn't see enough market in Linux-users. - bruinexmo, on 10/10/2007, -1/+13I didn't download music until I read about all these ridiculous cases the RIAA was filing against innocent people. Right after the RIAA got the US government to pressure the Russian government into shutting down a successful online music distribution site, I created a Pirate Bay account and started filling my hard drive with as much music as I could think of.
It's my way of saying "Go ***** yourselves, RIAA." Evolve or die, you corporate *****. You're obsolete, backwards and irrelevant, and you know it. That's why you've resorted to breaking the law. It's the only way you can convince an ignorant government you have a reason to exist. - MarkOfTheDead, on 10/10/2007, -1/+13musical darwinism.
teach the labels not to sign ***** fake talent. - Scheissen, on 10/10/2007, -0/+11And you're censoring yourself because...?
- actorboy, on 10/10/2007, -6/+17You know what else sucks? People who think they are entitled to stuff free and then bitch about its quality.
- invictus0x0, on 10/10/2007, -1/+12Dear RIAA,
I have the solution to your piracy problem.
fact: over 90% of the selling value goes back to the record labels that comprise the RIAA.
take away that 90% away and Prices of CDs would be close to the price of the most successful
mp3 website ever, AllofMP3. Artists would make just as much money (if not more) as they do now,
and piracy numbers would plummet.
This of course this is the one thing you fear the most. you don't want to become obsolete.
you don't want to stop sucking artists dry. so you pretend that its the consumers fault.and
try to protect yourselves from us , while at the same time trying to sell us overpriced crap.
So, here is the solution,
1. Get out of the music business, and goto a sector more suited to your practices, say, tobacco.
You (the major record labels) are nothing but vampires , you need to be put to rest, so the
world can get on with our lives.The rest of us would be better off without you. well paid artists,
lower costs, open file formats, and a major drop in piracy.
all it requires on your part is your dismantling . - BayAreaKing, on 10/10/2007, -3/+12*Download in progress*
- HonoredMule, on 10/10/2007, -0/+8That's right. Legitimate professions (except for art itself, which isn't really a profession per se) get paid up front. As in any other industry, everyone attached to it gets paid by commission or salary. It's only the Greedy Bastard on top and The Corporation itself that loses money with every lost sale (not the artist, because he was already getting nothing but a little fame to sell concert tickets, which he gets through illegal distribution too). Greedy Bastard makes too much money already, and if The Corporation goes bust, all its employees worth their salt just get a job at a company that deserves to exist.
Every one of the RIAA's sob stories are null and void, not to mention that they're pleading their sorry case at the expense of society's. - inactive, on 10/10/2007, -2/+10well, i care about the music, i just don't care about the RIAA.
hey, i even download music i don't like. I still make donations to the artists in the end.
i swear, it's as if the RIAA thinks people are paying them for them. If it weren't for the artists, they wouldn't exist. - DoomMusic, on 10/10/2007, -4/+12You think anyone actually STOPS downloading music illegally? Of course the numbers are going up, more people join in, more music gets shared, and everybody wins.
- sathias, on 10/10/2007, -0/+8Arrrrrrrrrr... IAA are scumbags
- sephiroth965, on 10/10/2007, -8/+15The artists on not the only people who contribute to an album. There's also an entire crew of sound technicians and engineers and whatnot that you're stealing from.
- Ajajadude, on 10/10/2007, -3/+10I think you got the people who are knowledgeable recommending file sharing because of DRM and the RIAAs lust for lawsuits.
I, like many people, are tired of the RIAAs heavy-handed tactics and inability to evolve with the technological times. They fight every technological innovation that would actually benefit them in the end. Remember CDs? Yeah, those were supposed to be the end of music as we know it! Or, as we see now, not exactly. - wildfire, on 10/10/2007, -2/+9Somebody's % broken?
- TheSpore, on 10/10/2007, -1/+7OK, Linux users may be a small segment of consumers, but I think andyakadum makes a good point here. In a dying industry, every consumer base helps.
The RIAA has managed to piss off the Linux crowd, anti-DRM crowd, the 'music keeps getting more expensive while actual production costs are cheaper' crowd, the 'actually want to help the artists and not just the labels' crowd, the 'don't abuse the legal system' crowd... I could go on and on but they've managed to piss off almost everyone in the younger, tech-savvy generation.
The event that first got me pissed off toward the RIAA when they were first coming out with DRMed CDs. I had just gotten my first iPod, and I had ripped all my physical CDs to my iPod, but this one CD played this really annoying sound on my iPod instead the actual music. When I found out it was a CD that had surreptitiously installed malware on my computer, I got really pissed and I never bought a CD from the RIAA labels again.
DRM isn't the music industry's only problem; they need to start treating customers with RESPECT, and start giving them WHAT THEY WANT. - cockmaster, on 10/10/2007, -3/+9haha what. you douche people steal music BECAUSE ITS FREE AND EXTREMELY EASY. most kids dont give a flying ***** about linux or DRM, my god where's all the ***** common sense.
- darkyoshi, on 10/10/2007, -0/+6Arrrrr you sure about that?
- dd240sx, on 10/10/2007, -0/+6GREED let's say it together RIAA Greed
"long live piratebay arrhhh" - bdbr, on 10/10/2007, -0/+6This article is from the UK - the RIAA are in the US. The title is inaccurate.
Just buy independent-label music. Its that easy. - Fordi, on 10/10/2007, -0/+6Ah, dude?
Legallay speaking, infringement (piracy) and theft (stealing) are two distinct things, handled by two distinct areas of legal documentation.
Meanwhile, I won't even comment on the irony of someone who obviously has no idea what they're on about and uses terms like 'dumb *****' calling someone an 'idiot'.
Meanwhile, knowing where the Shift key is doesn't make you an expert on anything. - Phyltre, on 10/10/2007, -1/+7Maybe to find out if the artist is worth listening to? Are you seriously saying nobody should use the internet to find new artists? Or that people would never use their MP3 players on airplanes, trains, roadtrips, or during exercise when they might have the leisure time to listen to what they've downloaded?
- hagridore, on 10/10/2007, -0/+5Piracy on the rise because of all those angry Linux users. The masses will be heard!
- whatthefu, on 10/10/2007, -1/+6Hell, I try my best to download my songs legally, but iTunes just doesn't have a lot of songs that I want. It's ridiculous. The key to beating out pirates is by providing services that are better than free music downloading, i.e., amazing quality, no DRM, and whatever else they can think of. But the RIAA is not practicing good business; they're just not adjusting.
- TehDoctor, on 10/10/2007, -3/+8And if the artists are halfway decent, they'd pass along a couple bucks. But since the CD companies and recording companies are still around, the few people thatgo the "steal" and donate way aren't hurting the other people involved in making a record.
- hackmiester, on 10/10/2007, -11/+16***** the RIAA
- chrisutley, on 10/10/2007, -1/+5"how about replying directly to him? you know, there is a reply button, USE IT. See how I reply directly to you?"
Actually there aren't any reply buttons anywhere on the other posts on this page. Not a single ***** one. If Digg wants me to use a reply button, perhaps it should appear by default. I sure as hell never saw an option to show or hide a reply button, so piss off Internet tough guy. - WaterDragon, on 10/10/2007, -0/+4Excellent link. THANKS!
- darkyoshi, on 10/10/2007, -0/+4I disagree.
ARRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr............. - kamisama, on 10/10/2007, -0/+4darn communists
- uberkling, on 10/10/2007, -0/+4I'm sorry to burst your bubble, but linux, DRM and Linux compatability are nothing that 99.999% of the peasantry and Billy Bob's grandmother could give an airborne reproductive act about.
The situation is nothing more complicated than Generation Y being indoctrinated from a very young age that downloading that song they saw on VH1 is about as damaging to society at large as jaywalking at 3AM. - Tsen, on 10/10/2007, -0/+4But who cares? Amarok's a better app anyway. I'd rather see a Windows Amarok port than a Linux iTunes port.
- DeltaWolf, on 10/10/2007, -0/+4They ask! Duh, who would you lie about that sorta thing?
Weird... someone's knocking on my door... -
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