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- rupertmorris, on 11/29/2007, -1/+210FTA: "...those thousands of lawsuits have done nothing but generate ill will from record fans, while costing the labels millions of dollars and doing little (if anything) to actually reduce the amount of file-sharing going on."
Who would have thought?!
Do you hear that, RIAA? That is the sound of... inevitability. It is the sound of your death. - PistolSO, on 11/29/2007, -0/+121This is great news. The RIAA is a dinosaur.
- RandomGorilla, on 11/29/2007, -0/+101Congratulations, RIAA. By treating your consumers as criminals all, you've damned yourselves and your labels. Enjoy selling the rest of your corporate resources and assets at garage sales and swap meets.
- Stonekeeper, on 11/29/2007, -1/+77EMI have hit bad times recently and that led to them taking a gamble with releasing non-DRMed music. Now they are cutting funding to RIAA? Zero to hero. Well done EMI.
- inactive, on 11/29/2007, -3/+56well that just earned EMI a few of my bucks. Gonna go out and buy some of their non ***** CD's.
- ekso, on 11/29/2007, -1/+53Finally it started!! A handful of lawyers and managers will be jobless while a huge mass of artists and musicians will have more freedom to distribute their content and reach a global audience. For free. Without prejudice. And compete head to head with "big musicians". Long live the horizontality of content distribution! Long live the world without the middle men!
- RealmDown, on 11/29/2007, -0/+39And well done EMI. I haven't seen a positive turn around that fast since the Atlanta Braves in 1991.
- FSUCHEEF, on 11/29/2007, -0/+38Looks like the Recording Industry finally found where all the money they were losing is going to.
- inactive, on 11/29/2007, -2/+36I agree completely. Middlemen, R.I.P.
- inactive, on 11/29/2007, -1/+34Is it me, or is the sun shining a little brighter today? Hopefully EMI will follow through with the funding cuts and set an example for the other three major labels involved in their futile attempt to fight the future.
- TriZz, on 11/29/2007, -0/+30This is a great start! Now use all that money that you were wasting on the RIAA and come up with a modernized business model that embraces the digital age.
- notfaded1, on 11/29/2007, -0/+25Good... it's about time. I can't imagine the money invested has had a very good return on their investment at all. And who got screwed... some little old lady and some kids. Total failure.
- avg_bear, on 11/29/2007, -0/+20I worked in music distribution until about six months ago. Some of the labels have actually started to get it in the past year or so. They're seeing that DRM was the wrong way to go (I think EMI was the first to drop DRM on iTunes), and starting to understand that in this new digital market, it's actually very simple: your customers aren't your enemy, and to make a profit, you just need to give them what they want.
I guarantee you, a lot of the last ten years was simply because these fat, coked-up idiots are simply afraid and ignorant of technology. - dlc1911, on 11/29/2007, -0/+19List of artists signed with EMI
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_musicians_sig ... - Murdats, on 11/29/2007, -1/+18but arent the clouds brighter.
- tuka, on 11/29/2007, -2/+16They haven't done it yet. I for one will not be suddenly jumping to reward a company or an industry that as if they are my newly discovered savior. First is the intention, then the act, lets see how it plays out if they go through with it. They could just be (very savvy) putting this out on the wire to see the public response. At the end of the day, the "industry" is still the same ***** who've been ***** us in the ass for the past 10 years, just cause they offer a reach around now doesn't make us even.
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This is step one, step two is reparations. If these law suits are going to stop, i think the people that have been harmed by them (some greatly) should have at least half of their settlement refunded. After all, the industry has gone primarily after the most poor and indefensible of the population. I find the timing of this to be interesting in light of the recent order by a Judge in one of the infringment cases ordering the RIAA to come up with ACTUAL COSTS of distribution and profit per online sale in order to judge weather the penalties being imposed of hundreds of dollars per song is even legal. They see the writing on the wall, ill will didn't bring this down, its the impending disaster and outing of all their financial data thats got them retreating and trying to make nice.
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Burn bitches.
Tuka - MacParrot, on 11/29/2007, -0/+13If this is true it shows the inevitable decline of the RIAA (and hopefully the MPAA as well) and hopefully the death of DRM as well. EMI made a bold move by allowing digital distributers to sell non-DRM versions of the content and...who woulda thunk it...their sales (according to some sources) increased. Universal is now experimenting as well with non-DRM releases from Amazon (which is also providing some much needed competition for iTunes). Kudos to both for getting rid of DRM in some instances.
- inactive, on 11/29/2007, -0/+11Can't be. Dinosaurs are cool.
The RIAA is really more like smallpox. - geoken, on 11/29/2007, -0/+10Maybe they should start giving money to the real IFPI (Internation Federation for Pirate Interests)
- dsmx, on 11/29/2007, -0/+10Goodbye Mr RIAA.
- awtripp, on 11/29/2007, -0/+10If they get their funding cut they'll have to downsize their efforts due to operating costs. It costs a lot of money to pursue these lawsuits, and unless their lawyers et al. are willing to work more for less, we'll see a substantial drop in these frivolous suits.
- Jareth86, on 11/29/2007, -1/+10Karma?
- yujie, on 11/29/2007, -1/+10They should just cut the head off of the RIAA and IFPI
- ronaldinho, on 11/29/2007, -0/+9Finally, one major label seemed to finally be a bit in-touch with its consumers. They should know now it's a buyer's market, not a seller's market. It's not the old times, fellas.
This put a smile on my face. ***** the RIAA - kildare, on 11/29/2007, -3/+11"a huge mass of artists and musicians will have more freedom to distribute their content"
they already have that freedom. as a consumer, this is great news--as an independent musician, it's totally irrelevant. - Amazetbm, on 11/29/2007, -0/+7I'm not surprised since they struck a deal with Apple to sell non-DRM music in iTunes.
- Depthfunction, on 11/29/2007, -1/+8Die, RIAA! Die!
- awtripp, on 11/29/2007, -0/+6When did ArsTechnica lose their credibility? They seem to do a pretty good job with citing their sources to back their points which counts for a lot.
- CelloLover, on 11/29/2007, -0/+6Been watching EMI for a while - their new chairman Guy Hands is really trying to turn the company around, get back in touch with the consumers, make the industry fair to us as well as future artists. He's emerging as one of the few people who have the ability to be something of a hero to us actually stepping up to the plate in my eyes... I sense great things in the future, and this is just the beginning. ***** THE RIAA!
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/11/28/emi_trade_ ... - basic0, on 11/29/2007, -0/+6"it's actually very simple: your customers aren't your enemy, and to make a profit, you just need to give them what they want."
I can't believe in this day and age, that has to be spoken like it's some sort of breakthrough in the way business should operate. Your customers aren't some competing business who's looking for ways to screw your company over. They want Product X, and they'd be happy to buy Product X from you, but they're willing to steal a less restrictive one if the Product X you offer is purposely made of inferior quality, doesn't work with Product Y (which it's supposed to), can't be used more than N times, and can't be used at all if your business ever decides to change direction (see Google Video). - Waterrat, on 11/29/2007, -5/+10 Excellent read! it made my day...
Can you hear the tiny violin I'm playing for them? - llvllatrix, on 11/29/2007, -0/+5Perhaps they should sell their machines to the International Federation of Pirates Interests. They seem to be doing well.
- spudnic, on 11/29/2007, -4/+9If EMI cut some of their funding, wont that mean they have MORE incentive to get money out of people by suing?
- PFinn, on 11/29/2007, -2/+7your comment would have skyrocketed if you had put in the sarcasm tag..... /sarcasm/
- rebelwoaclue, on 11/29/2007, -0/+5Speaking of 'afraid' and 'DRM'...are you paying attention Microsoft?
- stiggynet, on 11/29/2007, -0/+4LETS ENCOURAGE FREE MUSIC. The days of trying to prevent piracy are coming to an end. We can all help if we : 1) get educated about Creative Commons / copyright 2) DONATE directly to musicians at musicNeutral
http://www.musicneutral.com
http://www.creativecommons.com - inactive, on 11/29/2007, -1/+5too many people had the suss, too many people support us, an unlimited amount, too many outlets in and out, who? e.m.iiiiiiiiiiii. e.m.iiiiiiiiiii. e.m.iiiiiiiiiii.
- inactive, on 11/29/2007, -3/+7It's cloudy where I am.
- randysouth, on 11/29/2007, -4/+8RIAA - PHAIL
- biggyfred, on 11/29/2007, -2/+5Don't believe that this will dent the RIAA for a minute. Trade groups like these never disappear. There will always be gullible people fearful of losing money, even if the fear is unwarranted.
- Yond, on 11/29/2007, -0/+3I got DIBBS on on that nice oak table made from ripping off their consumers, and artists that sign under them.
- Shaman760, on 11/29/2007, -0/+3The dying gasps indeed. Good riddance!!
- Yond, on 11/29/2007, -0/+3post us a link to your music!!!!
- djuniah, on 11/29/2007, -2/+4While i do enjoy the little poke at the RIAA, I could see this being problematic. If they arent getting the funding they need from the EMI, they may look other places for it. Like actually following up on the thousands of other people they have filesharing evidence against to squeeze the funding out in the courts. This might very well lead to more lawsuits just so the RIAA can have enough money to operate. (I know that those suits cost money, but in the end theres a good chance that this could become a reality)
- DestroyFascism, on 11/30/2007, -0/+2What? EMI are making real money from downloads? No! You must be kidding me right?.....................!Smak in da face!
- Phantomstar, on 11/29/2007, -0/+2Now it gives me more of a reason to buy that Radiohead box set coming out in 2 weeks.
- ThreeDee912, on 11/29/2007, -0/+1Dinosaur - I think it means "terrible lizard" in latin or something.
- Falldog, on 11/29/2007, -0/+1If they gave that money back to the artists I'd probably start buying music again...
- jer2eydevil88, on 11/29/2007, -0/+1If there were an auction we could rally together to really screw over the RIAA and help out those they ***** over. We all show up agreeing to not bid up anything higher than the starting price. At the end of the auction we take all the assets we bought for next to nothing and we sell them on ebay with all proceeds to go back to the victims of the RIAA's campaign... Help pay those college kids back and if any is left over we donate it to the EFF....
Ahhh... a man can dream. - jer2eydevil88, on 11/29/2007, -0/+1http://ifpi.com/
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