Music industry's new piracy crackdown

Legal action now extends to online file sharers in South America and additional countries in Europe and Asia.

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[protagonistic]

Music industry's new piracy crackdown

You would think that after all this time these people would realize
that the real problem is their pricing and attitudes. All you have to
do is look how successful iTunes is to see that people want to pay
for the music they download. They just don't like to be gouged for
it. And you don't make good customers by threatening dire
consequences if people don't want overpay for a product.

[skeptik]

problems with legal alternatives

The industry also needs to recognize their own role in driving people to illegal alternatives.
Overly restrictive DRM which doesn't allow me to play my purchased music on the device of my choice and blatant malware (for example the Sony rootkit) on the media we purchase do not provide much of a "carrot" to entice people to purchase their products.

[Marcus Westrup]

The Spin

$30 for a music CD (little of which ever reaches the artists), $50 for a movie DVD, independent studies showing excellent profit margins, and all we hear about is how the music and motion picture industry is at the mercy of pirates.
Who's zooming who?
I think it's time the tables were turned, haul the whole lot of them into court and have them justify their claims.

It was done with Big Tobacco...

[System Tyrant]

Dino might?

The only dinasours in the music business is the record companies. I look forward to a day when there are no more record companies in their current form. It will be nice to see new ways of distrabution for artist who don't have or want record contracts.

I say give away the song and sell the band. After all it's entertainment that people pay for.

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