Squalish
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The RIAA controls >90% of the record industry. They've shown that they are averse to change. Were a giant boycott to be formed tomorrow, with 0 CD purchases for the next week, the RIAA would call on congress for immediate legislation(on subsidies, anti-P2P allowances, etc), with evidence that everyone has stopped buying their CDs because of "stealing music." And they would get it. Like it or not, their lobbyists have convinced Congress and a good portion of the American public that they DESERVE their place in the world.
It would, of course, be impossible to form such a boycott.
On the other hand, mass returns are a tangible thing protected by consumer-protection LAWS that are familiar enough to people that the laws won't be going anywhere. They hit businesses where it costs the most - Do you really think the RIAA or the artists are losing $14.99 EVERY time 12 songs are downloaded off kazaa? This hits them with the same amount of financial force that going in and physically stealing CDs(as has been compared so many times before) would. Unlike sharing songs, which doesn't deprive anyone of any tangible resources(only of the possibility of a certain gain in resources), returns deprive chains from whatever they payed for the CDs. With the number of middlemen between the artist and the consumer, SOMEONE(likely first the businesses) is going to stop and demand to know why they're losing money. If large chains refuse to sell copy-protected CDs, then there is no market for them(don't you just love capitalism run rampant?[the increasing rise of vast corporate empires that people keep protesting]), and they will cease to exist.
| Originally posted by TimSchirmer I like to take it a step further, and boycott anything involved with the RIAA. Here is a list of RIAA members, these are the labels who support copy protection... http://www.riaa.org/About-Members-1.cfm Come to think of it, I think I will post this in the member's section and perhaps audio asylum. I keep this list handy whenever I go shopping for new music. The only way to stop them is to put your money where your mouth is. |
The RIAA controls >90% of the record industry. They've shown that they are averse to change. Were a giant boycott to be formed tomorrow, with 0 CD purchases for the next week, the RIAA would call on congress for immediate legislation(on subsidies, anti-P2P allowances, etc), with evidence that everyone has stopped buying their CDs because of "stealing music." And they would get it. Like it or not, their lobbyists have convinced Congress and a good portion of the American public that they DESERVE their place in the world.
It would, of course, be impossible to form such a boycott.
On the other hand, mass returns are a tangible thing protected by consumer-protection LAWS that are familiar enough to people that the laws won't be going anywhere. They hit businesses where it costs the most - Do you really think the RIAA or the artists are losing $14.99 EVERY time 12 songs are downloaded off kazaa? This hits them with the same amount of financial force that going in and physically stealing CDs(as has been compared so many times before) would. Unlike sharing songs, which doesn't deprive anyone of any tangible resources(only of the possibility of a certain gain in resources), returns deprive chains from whatever they payed for the CDs. With the number of middlemen between the artist and the consumer, SOMEONE(likely first the businesses) is going to stop and demand to know why they're losing money. If large chains refuse to sell copy-protected CDs, then there is no market for them(don't you just love capitalism run rampant?[the increasing rise of vast corporate empires that people keep protesting]), and they will cease to exist.
