Thursday, April 01, 2004
"Cheesecake is fucking god"
Title is compliments of Tori's HADD
Ironic how the music recording industry lost their battle in court. Not so ironic that the judge happily ruled against the giant behemoth, snarling at the very basis of capitalist free trade. And not so ironic that the judge himself clearly stated that he is willing to reexamine under microscope the very laws written on the privacy and protection of a citizen's rights.
Why so? Because initially, the recording industry had very logical demands. They demanded that a number of ISPs turn over the names and addresses of big name in music piracy. To hunt them down? To fine them? Please. Spare me of your whines. No one's ripping you off. The sharing of music over the internet was inevitable. Clear new studies have emerged as of late, proving that, in it's mere existence, the "compact disc" has become antiquated. Let's also not forget the concrete evidence that as teenagers, we don't have 20$ to put down on the counter everytime we want to listen to a song once or twice. Not to mention that even if p2p apps were completely illegalised, buying a cd and copying it 100 times, selling the copies for 2$ and saving the profit, the happy cd purchaser would have made 30$. Assuming that each blank cd-r was priced at 1$ and that the initial stock cost him 20$. (Let's also observe that by buying thousands of blanks at a time, one can expect to pay .10$ a disc). One can only assume that if music downloading actually became sparse, pirated disc sales would skyrocket in larger cities, eventually filtering through to the small towns. A small bootlegging operation sprang up before Eminem has a chance to release his last album. He was forced to put it out for sale early. Sadly, (or not so) many potential "payers" had already bought the bootleg. Since this is only going to become more widespread, we can only hope that music this terrible dissapears altogether.
I guess that for a long time I had myself convinced that eventually cd prices would come down. But for a few years now it's at that point where I only buy the cds that I've deemed necessary to support.
Clearly paying 20$ for D-Natural's "Preparation D" was a stellar investment.
Unfortunately, nothing has changed since the cd's first appearance on shelves across America. So I leave you with this message: Uploaders : Upload often, upload more than imaginable.
It's time to throw recording industry facists into the pit they've dug themselves.
Ironic how the music recording industry lost their battle in court. Not so ironic that the judge happily ruled against the giant behemoth, snarling at the very basis of capitalist free trade. And not so ironic that the judge himself clearly stated that he is willing to reexamine under microscope the very laws written on the privacy and protection of a citizen's rights.
Why so? Because initially, the recording industry had very logical demands. They demanded that a number of ISPs turn over the names and addresses of big name in music piracy. To hunt them down? To fine them? Please. Spare me of your whines. No one's ripping you off. The sharing of music over the internet was inevitable. Clear new studies have emerged as of late, proving that, in it's mere existence, the "compact disc" has become antiquated. Let's also not forget the concrete evidence that as teenagers, we don't have 20$ to put down on the counter everytime we want to listen to a song once or twice. Not to mention that even if p2p apps were completely illegalised, buying a cd and copying it 100 times, selling the copies for 2$ and saving the profit, the happy cd purchaser would have made 30$. Assuming that each blank cd-r was priced at 1$ and that the initial stock cost him 20$. (Let's also observe that by buying thousands of blanks at a time, one can expect to pay .10$ a disc). One can only assume that if music downloading actually became sparse, pirated disc sales would skyrocket in larger cities, eventually filtering through to the small towns. A small bootlegging operation sprang up before Eminem has a chance to release his last album. He was forced to put it out for sale early. Sadly, (or not so) many potential "payers" had already bought the bootleg. Since this is only going to become more widespread, we can only hope that music this terrible dissapears altogether.
I guess that for a long time I had myself convinced that eventually cd prices would come down. But for a few years now it's at that point where I only buy the cds that I've deemed necessary to support.
Clearly paying 20$ for D-Natural's "Preparation D" was a stellar investment.
Unfortunately, nothing has changed since the cd's first appearance on shelves across America. So I leave you with this message: Uploaders : Upload often, upload more than imaginable.
It's time to throw recording industry facists into the pit they've dug themselves.
