Exactly...RIAA is so busy making MP3s the boogeyman when the few artists that are embracing it as a marketing device are doing just fine....its because the RIAA doesn't get their cut of the money that makes it a problem.

 

What about people in the 80's and early 90s who made mix tapes off the radio... or off their friends tapes instead of going out and buying the whole album.
No one went after them.
Or when your buddy copied a video tape for you cause you don't feel like buying it.

It's just today's technology.. and the RIAA needs to get over it.

 

Artists make very little on CD sales, compared to the billions that the record companies make. Think of the control these same moguls have over the radio airways... they can determine who's hot, and who's not, by overplaying some, and limiting others.

I'll openly admit. I download music, and if I like, I'll buy a ticket to the concert, and buy the CD and a T-shirt directly from the band selling them there for like, $10. This way, more money gets directly to the band.

Just think of all the bands you've never heard on the radio, but you adore because of your "illegal" downloading. I can name SEVERAL bands that would never get airtime in this shit-ridden pop culture, but keep a dedicated worldwide audience through embracing internet sharing and mucho touring.

 

it was fun while it lasted, but its about time. The internet as unregulated for how many years? Everyone knows its illegal and Kazaa/GNU/napsters networks make it too easy to abuse the system. No one will tape a complete album off the radio, but you can d/l a complete album h:. What the RIAA needs to do is accept that music media is now changing. Apple's iTunes is a good example of this... I wouldn't mind paying $9.99 for a good album, or 99 cents for a song.

*check 40-50GBs of mp3s from napster days* h:

 

6317 signatures

mine is one of them..

 

there's no getting around the RIAA because they're right. we are stealing ... it doesn't matter who's money we're taking (artists, record company, whoever), it's still illegal ...









84% complete dl on the new DMX album h:

 

hhahah i got it last night!

 

:werd:

I got it in under 2 min:rick: 700+kb/s dl ownz joo:fawk:


So is winmx safe? Irc? anyone got some inside channels on irc, PM me

 

is anyone watching how quickly people are signing this?

 

yea i agree with some people here. if you are distributing copyrighted material and get caught, dont bitch. do the crime, pay the time. if someone here gets caught speeding, and then bitches...most of you will say something to the effect of the same thing.

people dl music because its expensive as fawk to buy music. then write and sign a petition about how the cost of the end users should be lower.