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Yeoman

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Something To Think About - P2P and the RIAA
« on: November 06, 2005, 05:31:32 pm »
I was just reading RIAA And MPAA In The Red and got to thinking, what will the music world be like without the RIAA? Is it really worth getting rid of them in the end? Of course the flooding will stop on the P2P networks, but how will the music get chosen to be on the radio station? The bands really do need someone to manage their finances and their managers can do that, so I guess the managers will go to the radio stations to get their band's music popular? Don't you think that eventally one radio station will get really popular and then turn into a new version of RIAA? It could go back to what it was like in the old days.

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Something To Think About - P2P and the RIAA
« Reply #1 on: November 06, 2005, 06:36:29 pm »
Hi Yeoman nice to have you here bringing another aspect of the topic to the table   8)

Most of us can recognise some benefit that the RIAA has brought to the music industry but for each one we can cite many attacks of a trivial or petty nature upon the consumer, as well as ensuring their members are held in a near monopoly when independent lables and artists come along and try to get airplay on the radio stations you mentioned.

I think the market is slowly changing for the better but launching legal assuallts on the poor, young and the old gains them the deserved reputation of a bully.
Are they really going to go belly up because a few housebound people downloads a poor copy of something they may well never bother with otherwise ?

There are plenty of variables and options in the financial mix here but selling product should be the main thrust of their activities, and with the money saved from not suing the big companies like Napster and Kazzaa we would see the price of the product drop and that in itself would stimulate more positive publicity and sales, that would allow a further price drop due to economy of scale.

Or they could just continue on the losing end of the "hearts and minds" battle...

Lysander

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« Reply #2 on: November 06, 2005, 10:49:54 pm »
Radio stations already look dire. There's already one radio station that owns about a third of all the radio stations in the US. Not to mention, right now, the RIAA is so incredibly huge that they will go ahead and blatantly break the payola laws, pay the $10 million fine, and just shrug it off because it's worth it to them. If the RIAA disappeared, no one person would be able to afford that kind of payoff. Besides, radio isn't, and hasn't been the only way to get oyur music popular, for years. it's not even teh best one.

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