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Hot Topics Hanging on L4Y Closing Down anyone here Crackdown 3's geomod Roll-Call. Who's still... R.I.P Sir Lots-A-Pot Server maps? Red Faction for Mac Who's still here? Run Event December 27th!   Online Goodness There are 0 users and 2 guests online     Levels-4-You News [Forum Rules]   Back to Forum Thread List Levels-4-You RIAA. Get a Clue. Posted Aug 4th, 04:08pm by Garner I think thats fair to say dont you? Big corporations barely get it right anymore, the RIAA is suing left, right and center. Quoting BBC According to the RIAA, CD sales dropped by 10% in 2001 and a further 6.8% last year, largely because of file sharing. However the RIAA go on to say... Quote According to the RIAA's own figures, over the last two years the US music industry has produced 25% fewer CDs. The peak of production was in 1999 when 38,900 individual titles were released. But by 2001 this was down to 27,000. Releases grew again in 2002 but were still below the previous high. So sales are down... but production was down even further. Surely that shows that sales actually went up as a percentage of production? You'd have to be an idiot I mean corporate business person to not see that... Besides "The pirate CD market is now so big, $4.6bn (£2.86bn), it is "of greater value than the legitimate music market of every country in the world, except the USA and Japan". So perhaps the RIAA should leave its customers alone and target the pirateers before they annoy even more people? Source : BBC News  Foe   Posted 4th Aug 2003 4:15pm The one and only! L4Y Member Post 0 / 837 This was interesting too. Quote In America and the rest of the world the biggest culprit in falling music sales is large-scale CD piracy by organised crime. In just three years, sales of pirate CDs have more than doubled, according to the International Federation of the Phonographic Industry (IFPI). Every third CD sold is a pirate copy, says the federation. This just shows the public gets tired of being forced to pay ridiculous prices. Like the debate over pharmacuetical comapnies who patent new drugs for decades. Then the consummer can't afford them, insurance does not cover some and a generic is years away. Isn't it the same thing they accused Bill Gates of? B"H     Garner    Posted 4th Aug 2003 5:34pm Post 0 / 4125 Yup, if CD's weren't so expensive I'd be willing to bet downloading/piracy wouldn't be so rampant right now. Its the RIAA's fault 10 years ago thats caused all of this. They're trying to cover for their mistakes back then by suing everyone who has even seen a music mp3... I can buy blank CD's for 20p each in stacks of 100 CD's. A CD printer will probably get an even better deal and can churn out more CD's in faster time than a guy with a CD burner can. Why you buy a CD for £20 with music on is beyond me. Sure everyone needs there share of the profit but there's a heck of a profit margin there... the record companies are rolling in it for a reason... "Science is this extraordinary transnational, transcultural, trans-everything language which is the only way to discover Truth and its regrettable that billions are still stuck in the Middle Ages believing the crap propagated by Popes and priests..." - Peter Atkins

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