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Trauma-san:

--- Quote from: Kaidy on October 01, 2003, 06:36:18 PM ---Although I'm much against filesharing (mainly album-sharing is what really irks me) and it obviously is hurting the artists, isn't it pretty cool to watch these megarich label moguls squirm like this?

I mean shit, hopefully they'll start to drop prices even more and be less money-oriented when releasing music and give more new talent a chance. The industry has become too monotonous and filesharing is the disease that's been created.

So basically I'm sitting on the fence right now.

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Yeah, i'm in no way taking the labels side on this, they've been screwing artists and fans for decades now.  They realize there is nothing they can do about this.  NOTHING.  There's absolutely no way they can police this, because somebody will just invent some other way to share files.  Bootlegging is horrible right now, I honestly wouldn't be surprised if album sales for rap artists are selling twice as many albums if you count the bootlegs, anybody with a computer, or that has a flea market near them can attest to that.  There ain't a thing they can do about it, either, and they know it, so they're squirming all over the place.

For years, they had the artists fucked, LOL there wasn't anything they could do about it, they had them in contracts.  Now, there's nothing they can do about this, and it's killing them, they hate it.  

The only solution I see, is that albums are going to have to get down to around 6.99 or so.  Really, that's not too big of a stretch, In the 70's and 80's, albums were 1.00, 1.99 or so, and CD's are easier and cheaper for them to make then LP's.  If they get the price on Cd's down low enough, people won't be able to make any profit on bootlegs, and the quality differences will make people want to buy the CD's.  

Another thing: Artists are going to have to get off their ass.  I guess Michael Jackson was the one who started waiting 4 years between album releases.  Now everybody does that... The beatles released at LEAST 2 albums a year, and as many as 4 a year in the early part of their career.  Even their complicated studio albums only had a year between release.  4 years is rediculous.  Artists need to be more prolific, and they'll earn more money, with less record sales of each album.  Country artists still do this, most Country artists release an album each year, even though they don't sell as many as the other types of music, they still make the same money.  

Don Breezio:

--- Quote from: Buddy Holly on October 01, 2003, 07:47:04 PM ---There's absolutely no way they can police this, because somebody will just invent some other way to share files.

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FTP's....i dont think they have anyway to police that...while its kind of a pain in the ass to find ftp info and all that its the best way to do it without getting caught...same with mirc...you dont have to register mirc or anything to use it...so its not like they have your name. since your IP constantly changes they cant get you that way...i would say those 2 things are pretty much going to be the next big things as far as downloading goes.

Trauma-san:
^ They already are, that's what I'm saying, there's no way they can fight it.  

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