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By: chrisdiclerico.com » Blog Archive » RIAA says you can’t rip your own CDs to your iPod.

Thu, 16 Feb 2006 23:58:35 +0000

[...] Chris has talked about how stupid the RIAA is in a previous post. [...]

By: mistral938

mistral938 — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

And they took away all of the modern rock stations!!!! Idk if any of you are from philly, but, Y100 was replaced with rap and hip hop! bleh!!!!!!

By: mistral938

mistral938 — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

And they took away all of the modern rock stations!!!! Idk if any of you are from philly, but, Y100 was replaced with rap and hip hop! bleh!!!!!!

By: mistral938

mistral938 — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

sry 4 the double posts

By: robin

robin — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

rant with a clue. chris, man, this is this is why i keep coming back.
personally, i prefer my taxes to be in proportion to usage, but i also support subsidization of the arts.
under your flat tax model, i gather that musicians would be rewarded in proportion to their downloads, and some fraction of the $9 billion would be set aside to fund the high-risk releases by new artists, most of which never recover their costs. (and the rest of the world would get a free ride on our music, for the moment at least. wait, let’s don’t forget to tax the canadians … say $60 canadian to give them a break for once : )
finally, what’s your problem with MTV Cribs? i find its promotion of rampant materialism and unbridled consumption to be morally repugnant, but i still get a kick out of touring the homes of people with more money than brains.

By: stubZee

stubZee — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

The music industry is like Hyman Roth from “The Godfather: Part II”–it’s “been dying of the same heart attack for 20 years.”

Why is this? I mean, it can’t be simple mismanagement can it? It’s *the whole industry*, not just a bad company or two or twelve. Aside from the airline industry, can you think of another *entire* business model that is in such complete failure?

James Surowiecki wrote (very well, as usual) a loosely related article in the May 16 2005 issue of the “New Yorker”. In it he talks about the economics of selling CD’s versus the economics of touring; in other words, shelf space and distribution versus talent and pefromance. Despite the expense of putting on a tour, a musician actually makes out much better on the road than on CD sales because he or she receives a much higher percentage of the profits from touring than from selling discs.

As Surowiecki noted (hopefully as far as I’m concerned), “This may be the first stage of what John Perry Barlow, a former lyricist for the Dead, once called the shift from ‘the music business’ to ‘the musician business.’”

On an unrelated subject: what happened to the HTML formatting options in the comments?

By: Darth Mandarb

Darth Mandarb — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

I’m glad somebody finally said this stuff!

I have this theory about the record labels:

They’re like the railroad industry of 100 years ago. When automobiles started coming around the railroad tycoons fought it saying, “there’s no future in automobiles” IF they would have realized they were in the [i]transportation[/i] buisness and not the [i]train[/i] business we’d now be driving Santa Fe Corvettes and Union Pacific Explorers.

The record labels NEED to realize they’re in the business of selling music NOT cds.

I want to see them fall. They don’t care about their artists, they care about their pocket books.

I download mp3 and I won’t stop. I will never again pay $15 for a CD that costs them $.15 to produce so that $.001 per CD goes to the artist and the rest lines their already bulding pockets.

I also will never download an mp3 for $1 a song. If I wanted a whole album it’d cost me near 15 bux again. That’s rediculous. THEN I’m not getting the CD, the case, the insert, or anything and I’m STILL paying a rediculous price.

Yahoo! is on the right track. Unlimited downloading for $5/month. That’s the way it should have been done back in ’96 when the whole shit storm started with whiny pussies like Lars (from Metallica) bitching ’cause he ONLY made 20 million last year.

By: Aaron

Aaron — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

I think in some way Apple would not want to sell unrestricted MP3s, because selling only M4As helps to sell iPods, and that’s where they’re making their real money, not the online music store. On the other hand, they’d probably be selling about as many iPods anyway just because they’ve become such a necessary fashion accessory… and well, they are pretty functional to boot but that’s not entirely why they’ve caught on.

By: Tyler

Tyler — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

Well as much as it may seemed like the music industry/business is corrupt it is quite the opposite. Like you said, more albums were sold last year than ever. That is what the music industry is, sales and profit. It has nothing to do with music and everything to do with business.

It’s exactly like a McDonalds cheeseburger, somewhat, it’s overpriced and full of shit.

I myself am a musician and I was mr anti music industry myself but I realized the good content is still there just as much if not more than before, and it’s just as easy, if not easier to find than before, you just got to look through the fluff and not expect Carson Daily to actually know a good band from his own singing ass pubes.

The “industry” itself is just as successful as ever, and the musicianship, although not mainstream still appeals to just as many. Bottom line is, only musicians and music lovers actually appreciate good music.

By: Rossi

Rossi — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

Yeah the music industry sucks.

You’re a fat loser.

Oh, I’m sorry I thought we were posting facts everyone knows today.