More Recording Industry Corruption - Pay For Play

[GhostShip]

Once more we see the real face of the Cartel.

http://212.2.162.45/entertainment/story.asp?j=141416760&p=y4y4y734x&n=141417369

New York’s chief law officer has subpoenaed many of America’s largest radio conglomerates in his “payola” investigation of major artists and songs, reported to include Jennifer Lopez, REM and Glasgow band Franz Ferdinand.

State Attorney General Eliot Spitzer claims some of the songs may have been given air time because of payoffs by recording companies.
He says the victims of payola are listeners who did not hear music based on objective criteria, including popularity, and artists who cannot get their big break because they had no player in the payola scheme.

The radio companies that have received subpoenas control thousands of stations in the US, including Clear Channel Communications Inc, Infinity, which now operates as CBS Radio, Citadel Broadcasting, Cox Radio, Cumulus Broadcasting, Pamal Broadcasting, Emmis Communications, Entercom and ABC.

Churning out poor quality sounds is hard work it seems, so much so, radio stations are being paid off to promote artist whos record companies pay the most rather than allowing decent artists a fair share of airplay, shame on them.

At the bottom of the article I note the artists have themselves complained, and rightly so, Cartel members should not be able to buy their way to the top of the charts.

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Unfortunately this is nothing new, as i have mentioned before, its not only radio, the whole chart is a total fix, as is many of the smaller charts, record companies are well known to use bully tactics to ensure the artists they wish to make it to the top do so, aswell as pricing smaller record shops out of business so they can push bulk orders on the larger record stores, and control retail pricing etc. The whole thing stinks of greed, corruption and underhanded manipulation, you gotta hand it to them though, they know how to line their pockets, and oh to many of the public are suckered in to handing over the loot.

[Faithless06]

think about this one yeah if the shops that sell formats of music and dvd's did not charge alot people would have no need to download lets say all cd's was £5 i would prefer to pay that and get all the extra features than download it and just get the media

and same applys to dvd's

what do you all think

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think about this one yeah if the shops that sell formats of music and dvd's did not charge alot people would have no need to download lets say all cd's was £5 i would prefer to pay that and get all the extra features than download it and just get the media

and same applys to dvd's

what do you all think

I think thats the whole point of p2p, as Ghost's post points out elsewhere, your average p2p user still buys as many CD's/DVD's as a non p2p users. I have plenty of files ive got via p2p that have led to a purchase. If they made a good quality product at a realistic price, they would give their customers a good deal, and customers tend to buy more when they are happy and not being ripped off! As far as i can see, they are loosing the battle, although they would have you think otherwise with all the crazy underhand tactics, but i think p2p is on the up and is growing daily.

Perhaps if they laid off all the high price lawyers and media spin doctors, they could comfortably reduce costs down and see no loss profit!