tempest210
11-22-2005, 01:18 PM
The Music Industry and their lawyers (Who are only ones getting rich doing this by the way) have been after people sharing music for years, spending hundreds of millions of dollars, on what they call ‘loss of sales’ mistakenly believing that every song downloaded was a sale lost.
And all this money spent has done little to stop the trading of songs, nor has it stopped people from buying music.
So lets be honest, some albums will not be sold because someone downloaded it off the net, or at least the songs on the album that didn’t suck.
So the Music suits at Sony, thinking everyone with a computer is a hacker or Pirate but some Spyware (RootKit) on some of their CD's
Here's the List.
http://cp.sonybmg.com/xcp/english/titles.html
And how they have been sued by the state of Texas, plus they must re-call some 4.5 million CD's, and replace the ones sold.
This is going to cost them Hundreds of millions of dollars. A lot more then the loss of sales by file traders. And that's real monies, not theoretical dollars.
I think the music industry needs a new formula
‘Potential loss of Sale’ vs ‘Real monies spent of lawyers/Copy protection/harassing the music fan, you name it..
I’m betting if they did nothing, (Because all the bluster and monies spent so far have done nothing) they would have those hundreds of millions, even billions spent trying to stop music trading still in their pockets.
And all this money spent has done little to stop the trading of songs, nor has it stopped people from buying music.
So lets be honest, some albums will not be sold because someone downloaded it off the net, or at least the songs on the album that didn’t suck.
So the Music suits at Sony, thinking everyone with a computer is a hacker or Pirate but some Spyware (RootKit) on some of their CD's
Here's the List.
http://cp.sonybmg.com/xcp/english/titles.html
And how they have been sued by the state of Texas, plus they must re-call some 4.5 million CD's, and replace the ones sold.
This is going to cost them Hundreds of millions of dollars. A lot more then the loss of sales by file traders. And that's real monies, not theoretical dollars.
I think the music industry needs a new formula
‘Potential loss of Sale’ vs ‘Real monies spent of lawyers/Copy protection/harassing the music fan, you name it..
I’m betting if they did nothing, (Because all the bluster and monies spent so far have done nothing) they would have those hundreds of millions, even billions spent trying to stop music trading still in their pockets.