Dear RIAA:

[pirateseneschal]

DemonBaby has finally updated his blog. Oh thank goodness.
But wait.. this time it isn't all that funny.  It's actually a pretty good read on the music industry, and why people are generally fed up with the way music is distributed.

Most of the past entries have had a hint of sarcasm. This one was just a really well written justification of what

Comments

[mcruthless]

That was a great article and yeah, he's pretty much right about everything. I miss you Oink *sniffle*. I haven't paid for a CD for a long while because there's no good reason to anymore. I'll buy single tracks off of iTunes now and then, but a lot of the rare stuff I'm looking for they don't even have. :/ So yeah, viva la revolution.

[pirateseneschal]

I really wish I'd been into Oink a while ago- but it's not startling that I had no idea about it until it was shut down- I'm pretty illiterate with torrent as it is.

I don't ever pay for single tracks. I'll occasionally buy albums, but at the price they are it's very few and far between. There's an RIAA listing in that article somewhere- lets you search which artists are distributed through companies that support suing people who download.

[mcruthless]

Yeah, I only got in to Oink about a week or two before it was shut down, so I didn't even make it through my first two week "safe" period (where you can have a whacked out ratio and get away with it). But as the author said, I would gladly pay a reasonable amount IF the record company were to ever develop a similar way of distributing music online.

[pirateseneschal]

I'd gladly pay $10 a month for high quality and fast downloads of music. But the fact that Oink seems to have relied a lot upon members, and not a centralized core is an idea that I can see as being scary to big companies. Maybe they'll eventually catch on, and everyone will start doing it. So it'll be like phone plans or whatever, where all the companies offer the same service but are called different things.

[goddamndunce]

That's an excellent article. I agree the music industry completely shot themselves in the foot, and only continue to alienate people they should be trying to lure. I tend to look for a lot of weird, harder to find music, so something like iTunes is pretty much useless to me.

(Although it's funny to me seeing all these people acting like illegal music is a new phenomenon that showed up with the internet...when I was a kid my parents and their friends all taped copies of their music and gave them to each other. Not quite the same thing, and not nearly the same scale and accessibility as the internet, but still. It's like a baby step!)

[pirateseneschal]

I've heard of older articles about cassette tape and VCRs being the end of the industry. But I think what kept them from losing a lot of money over these inventions was that it wasn't much of a fuss to go find the same VHS or cassette for a low price and get it in higher quality.

I'm just waiting for the next generation of pirates- you know, the ones that download the music, then claim they made it.

[sothicus]

I agree with most of what the guy says. We WANT to be legal, but with the ease of downloading illegally coupled with the amazingly high prices of CD's, why bother? The only bad part of the blog, for me, is he gets a bit whiny in there.

[pirateseneschal]

For me it just seems as though the fact that so many people do it anyway, despite threats from the RIAA, that it seems like an unenforceable law. Kind of like sodomy laws, or ordinances banning garlic eating.

I think his whining is a little justified on this one, and the streaming sidebar mp3 player more than makes up for it.

[wicked_ink]

::mourns the loss of Oink::