http://www.geeknewscentral.com/2007/12/11/the-riaa-are-dirty-snakes/ Geek News Central is the technical weblog for Geeks. We Spin tech for the common man. With a twice weekly tech podcast Thu, 18 Mar 2010 17:20:02 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 http://www.geeknewscentral.com/2007/12/11/the-riaa-are-dirty-snakes/comment-page-1/#comment-3857 Peter J Tue, 11 Dec 2007 18:25:13 +0000 http://www.geeknewscentral.com/2007/12/11/the-riaa-are-dirty-snakes/#comment-3857 I think you make valid points and I still don't get the concept of paying DVD prices for downloading an inferior quality product. <span class="mt-export2wp"></span> I wouldn't mind the charges so much if it were more realistic. Say I could download or rent a song of video for less than a buck. I have it for a week or whatever and then it's gone. But half the things on ITunes or anywhere else can't be rented, so you have to pay like 14 or 15 bucks for a movie. I'm sorry but I might as well just go buy the DVD at that point. <span class="mt-export2wp"></span> The funniest thing to me was a few years back when one of my favorite bands as a child, Metallica, went after napster and all those downloaders with some thousand pages list of people who 'stole' their music. Talk about a band who forgot where they came from and forgot half their fans were never mainstream music listeners back in the 1980's. And then a few years later they adopted the 'online' music presence and all this crap.. Sorry but I lost all my respect for them after that moment. It's one thing to complain, it's another to go after your own fans cause your greedy. <span class="mt-export2wp"></span> And while the record labels and corporations are a-holes, give me a break in the claims that many of these muscians aren't making money. Yeah the independents and the unknowns might not be, but they usually aren't the ones complaining... When you own a few million dollar mansions and start complaining about lost revenue, you become just as bad as the record labels and look like nothing more than a greedy liar. <span class="mt-export2wp"></span> But then again, the hollywood writers are on strike and while they have some valid points, some of their demands seem to be a bit unrealistic. Most things online aren't exactly making a ton of money besides a few sites and people, at least enough money to demand royalties from. It's great to fight for a cause, but if the cause makes you look just as greedy as the corporations, what does that accomplish? <span class="mt-export2wp"></span> I think it's not just the corporations or groups that are the problem. There are a ton of people who have become nothing but greedy. Just look at one of your last topics, bloggers who have fake paid for link placements and how they got pissed when google cost them money. I think you make valid points and I still don’t get the concept of paying DVD prices for downloading an inferior quality product.

I wouldn’t mind the charges so much if it were more realistic. Say I could download or rent a song of video for less than a buck. I have it for a week or whatever and then it’s gone. But half the things on ITunes or anywhere else can’t be rented, so you have to pay like 14 or 15 bucks for a movie. I’m sorry but I might as well just go buy the DVD at that point.

The funniest thing to me was a few years back when one of my favorite bands as a child, Metallica, went after napster and all those downloaders with some thousand pages list of people who ’stole’ their music. Talk about a band who forgot where they came from and forgot half their fans were never mainstream music listeners back in the 1980’s. And then a few years later they adopted the ‘online’ music presence and all this crap.. Sorry but I lost all my respect for them after that moment. It’s one thing to complain, it’s another to go after your own fans cause your greedy.

And while the record labels and corporations are a-holes, give me a break in the claims that many of these muscians aren’t making money. Yeah the independents and the unknowns might not be, but they usually aren’t the ones complaining… When you own a few million dollar mansions and start complaining about lost revenue, you become just as bad as the record labels and look like nothing more than a greedy liar.

But then again, the hollywood writers are on strike and while they have some valid points, some of their demands seem to be a bit unrealistic. Most things online aren’t exactly making a ton of money besides a few sites and people, at least enough money to demand royalties from. It’s great to fight for a cause, but if the cause makes you look just as greedy as the corporations, what does that accomplish?

I think it’s not just the corporations or groups that are the problem. There are a ton of people who have become nothing but greedy. Just look at one of your last topics, bloggers who have fake paid for link placements and how they got pissed when google cost them money.

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