RIAA after XM and Sirius Now

[arsenal]

CNN Money

The record industry may next aim its legal guns at satellite radio over a dispute involving new portable players that let listeners record and store songs, an analyst and industry sources said Wednesday.

The record industry, led by major labels such as Vivendi Universal (Research), Warner Music Group Corp. (Research), EMI Group Plc and Sony BMG, believe the recording capability is a clear copyright violation and could take revenue away from paid download music services.

In other news, people who have bought cd's from stores, find that they cannot place those songs on the iPod.
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Hmm.. let me get this straight. You get people to buy your music cd's, then don't allow those people to take that music with them. So you tell them how to work around the technology you wanted created to stop illegal sharing of your music, so people would buy more music cd's.

Is anyone as confused as I am about this whole thing?

[MarchHare]

The Universal vs. Sony case set a precident that consumers are free to record television shows (and movies played on TV) to their VCRs for private, non-commercial use. I see no reason why that decision wouldn't also apply to recording music from the radio, be it the conventional or satellite variety.

[Igottago]

Holy crap, the RIAA is one major pain in the ass...they are triggerhappy with lawsuits, and are getting way out of hand..they're like Satan himself (not Miroslav, the other one)

[arsenal]

I think alot of this has to do with the CEO of Warner Music Group Edgar Bronfman, Jr.

You can read one article about him here
Slate.

Edgar Bronfman Jr. (Youthful Folly), meanwhile, has been busy running Seagram--the Bronfman-managed liquor conglomerate--into the ground. Three years ago, he liquidated Seagram's $9 billion stake in DuPont to buy the entertainment giant MCA (now Universal)

He just seems to be a greedy greedy man, and his philosphy is movie ticket prices should be set by the amount that movie cost to make. I beleive that was also the reasoning that Microsoft backed out of a deal to provide a music store.

Also the WMG seems to be in the middle of any suit that the RIAA files. Coincidence?

[Looger]

the record companies shot themselves in the foot a decade ago, by continuing to screw over the artists - almost all of the don't receive royalties until selling X number of albums (hence the nonstop one-hit wonders...) - and losing their moral high ground for exorbitant costs of copies that cost pennies to make.

if CD's were 5 bucks almost no-one would copy them.

so few companies, so little foresight.

we will not miss them.

[CaramonLS]

Originally posted by Looger@Oct 10 2005, 03:47 PM
the record companies shot themselves in the foot a decade ago, by continuing to screw over the artists - almost all of the don't receive royalties until selling X number of albums (hence the nonstop one-hit wonders...) - and losing their moral high ground for exorbitant costs of copies that cost pennies to make.

if CD's were 5 bucks almost no-one would copy them.

so few companies, so little foresight.

we will not miss them.

I remember when Napster came out, CD prices were at pretty much an all time high. You go to buy a CD, just about any CD and you are paying 20+$ for it.

At least now, it has dropped off a little bit, most are 15-19$ now.

[Looger]

a day late and a dollar short.

it's over, done, and companies like vivendi are not making insane amounts of money anymore, merely just ridiulous amounts.

as soon as CD's appeared with street vendors in 2nd world countries a switch was clicked economically across the world, and we have yet to feel its full affect.

[Wolfwood]

They just can't stand to see that their business model is failing. They are no longer selling as much music as they used to but refuse to change to accept some of the newer technologies that are available today.

CDs are great but why would people buy cds for 20 bucks when they can download the one song that they like for a small fee (or for free if they want to)?