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Originally Posted by B-Line
I have mixed feelings...
As much as I am sorry that you can't copy your cd onto your cpu or even play it for that matter, I do think the music industry needs to do this in order to stay alive.
- The reason for this can squarely be blamed on those who have stolen music, (we are probably all somewhat guilty of this..) but the financial hardships the industry is induring must be prevented somehow.
- Now you might not feel bad for the "rockstar" who is making 1/4 of what they used to because of copyright theft but you are not on the receiving end of their license checks either.
- I for one hope the entertainment industry finds a way to STOP all intellectual property theft even if it is an inconvience in some way.
It will not be long before feature legnth films can easily be downloaded at full quality and stolen in masses, bootlegs are already doing significant damage.
- If this does happen, at the end of the day, the people who get hurt most are the consumers. Why you ask? because if corporations have to divert funds to stop theft or face ever decreasing revenues, the quality of the content will suffer. So much money needs to be spent on marketing, fulfillment, etc. that if the system gets screwed up, it will effect the content and the quality of the media we so wish to enjoy..
Sorry, but as a future filmmaker of America (hopefully) all entertainment theft should try to be stopped with whatever means neccessary. Theft is theft, no matter if it is xenon bulbs on your X5 or the music or movie someone has slaved over for the past 5-10 years..
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I would disagree. The industry has cried wolf many times in the past and each and every time they make more money. Look at what they charge for their product? At most 74 minutes, but usually less than an hour. Are all of the songs good? Nope. You can’t buy high quality digital recordings individually either. So the music companies have a market that they are ignoring. How much do they charge for their product? Too much, that’s the problem. Hollywood sort of gets it, release the DVD charge more for it, down the road they drop the price. Sony spent 1 million dollars on their CD copyright protection scheme, but yet it can be fooled by a $0.99 Sharpie pen. Money well spent by Sony.
Hollywood has a different problem, and that is they are a monopoly. They encode DVD’s with different regions and charge a different prices based on the regions they are sold in. The music companies also settled with the FTC but admitted no wrongdoing in their price fixing. As you mentioned, theft is theft and the music companies and Hollywood have continually ripped off the consumer. Now that the shoe is on the other foot, they now have a problem with theft. If they want to stay alive, they need to adapt to changes, which so far they are resisting.