Re: Big Music Angry at Apple, iTunes

On Tue, 30 Aug 2005 03:34:57 GMT, Backyard Mechanic
<pettyfog@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

>
>I'm a conservative. I believe in the free market.
>
>But the Music industry has made my blood boil from the time I found that I
>could have 1000 CD Roms or any content on CD made for $2900
>
>And THAT was in 1984 when there were only 3 houses in the US that did it!
> - Never mind i was a music lover in the fifties and sixties and read
>plaenty of stories on how the labels had conspired to screw artistrs out of
>most of their royalties... just like the old mining company/ company store
>trick.
>
>By 1990, it surely cost less to stamp a CD than to make a cassette YET the
>industry was still charging a premium... even long after AOL started
>mailing out shiny coasters to every man woman and child in the US 4 times a
>year!

Reminds me of Microsoft.... You can buy the latest OS at whatever the
going rate is, and yet you'll still pay full price for any of the OS
levels still supported by MS. Even if nobody is using it anymore.
>
>Now this.
>
>Never mind that this (RIAA) is a government enforced monopoly, or maybe we
>SHOULD mind...
>Maybe WE SHOULD enquire with these artistic moguls as to EXACTLY what their
>politics are.
>
>Bet I know what we'd find.
>
>Well, let them get their short term gains. It wont be long before they're
>either retiring or out in the streets looking for the next marketing job.
>
>Because that industry is gonna die... too bad we cant mercy kill it by
>nationalizing the RIAA into a branch of the FTC.
>Then force BMI ASCAP ans SESAC into fairly representing the artists.

Spike
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Gad what fools these morons be....
Children are obscene but should not be heard
Give me a peperoni pizza... or give me a calzone!
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