Comments on: Sources: RIAA budget will shrink soon

Budget cuts are likely as music industry gives up suing file sharers and continues to see losses.

[Havoc70]

HAHA Finally they learn that suing their customers does not work...I hope to see all the RIAA members on the unemployment line soon..Ya greedy Lowlife scumbag losers

[thelemurking]

wonder which costs more, the lawyer fees, or the money they won from the lawsuits... methinks it twas the lawyers!

they probably can't afford to sue anyone anymore.

[karpenterskids]

Yeah, the numbers shown by the polls don't surprise me one bit...except perhaps than anyone at all voted that the lawsuits were "a win for the music industry".

[Willie Winkie]

I could not off-set the cost of my ISP bandwidth by downloading free content, I'd go back to dial-up.

[chuck_whealton]

You know, there's a couple lines in this article that discuss how "digital music sales are growing, though not fast enough to make up for the losses from shrinking CD sales."

Of course they're not.

Before digital music sales, customers were (in most instances) FORCED to purchase an entire CD, just to get the one or two songs they wanted.

I doubt digital music sales will EVER make up for CD sales, now that customers are no longer forced to purchase entire CDs.

Charles Whealton

[paulej]

But, in some cases people are still forced to buy the whole album. Browse Amazon's MP3 download area and you'll see. I simply refuse to buy a whole album, and I just wonder which is more costly: lost sales due to people buying singles or due to fewer album sales? And, who are these last ones demanding to sell the entire album? Is it a particular label or is this done artist by artist?

[tm_anon]

All it would take to make digital music AND CD sales go up is good music. Give me something I want to buy and I'll buy it. If I have to hunt down that one song I really like, can't buy a CD with more songs I really like and that one song costs more than I can afford, it doesn't make much sense to buy it, now does it? On the other hand, if more quality music gets produced, the prices could be dropped to a reasonable level which would allow more people to buy, meaning the artists would make more money then you add in streaming music supported by advertisements and fire the RIAA dimwits who can't get their acts together and suddenly the music industry is looking less like a joke.

[HlLLARY CLITON]

The RIAA will need a bailout