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[new] rethinking intellectual property vs. tantrums (Avg. Score: 3.00 / Raters: 3) (#2)
by jgraham on Fri Jun 20th, 2003 at 06:36:43 AM EURODISCORDIA TIME
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As a musician myself, I wholeheartedly agree with those who argue that creators need to get paid, but it seems like it is well-past time for a thorough overhaul of the way that gets accomplished. Perhaps even our ideas of intellectual property more generally need to be reconceptualized in light of the radical acceleration of the flow of ideas and information which digital technology has brought.

yep, that's the ticket alright... while Apple and others have grasped the obvious: turn online music trading into a business model, the RIAA prefers the Neanderthal tantrum approach. Of course, the RIAA and MPAA never tire of repeating history - it's fairly well known by now that they've tried to fight every new technology that's later made them money, including audio cassettes, VCR's etc... In this case, of course, they're expanding their tantrum to a generaly technology that could facilitate online music trading.

So here's a reminder for ya - guess who provided the biggest leg up that facilitated online music trading? Yep - the RIAA. That's right folks, the record industry crammed the CD down our throats back when people were still buying vinyl. As described here:

Most experts agree quality had less to do with the abandonment of vinyl than did economics. People stopped being sold vinyl. The record industry discouraged record stores from selling vinyl by putting a no-return policy on it. A no-return policy meant retailers could not sell back stock they could not move. This made decisions on stocking shelves more complicated, and the CD, which did have a return policy, all the more appealing. This no-return policy even included defective units. So, a retailer that received a warped record was forced to either sit on it or sell it at a cutout price just to get it out of the store. With few stores left selling vinyl, the general public was forced to buy CDs. The record companies had successfully made up consumers' minds for them.

So we got to buying CD's, and then pretty soon we started digitizing them into our computers... think we'd be doing that with LP's?

So boys n girls, the moral of the story is, sue the RIAA for their life savings: those damn CD's they came up with are all about stealing, plain n simple...

tantrums n neanderthals by amy, 06/20/2003 07:04:15 AM EURODISCORDIA TIME (none / 0)

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