Recording Industry Settlement?

[gwilks98]

Strange....I didn't think they ever "settled."

http://www.musiccdsettlement.com/english/default.htm

Although, an industry gone multi-billion over these unfair practices should be penalized a bit more than this. Napster screws them and they go beserk. They screw the consumer over 5 reported years and the penalty is under 100,000,000. And here's the real kick in the pants: The MOST you can get back is 20.00. I know that this illegal practice has cost me way more than that over five years. I've had it. Starting today, I'm downloaded all music recorded between the years 1995 and 2000. That'll show 'em.

[caribiner23]

Your "5 reported years" is a good qualified statement. These guys have been screwing the consumer for a lot longer than that.

The recording industry is built on a model that goes back to the beginning of the last century. They have a history of problems with anything that threatens the model: in the 1970s and 1980s it was home taping, in the 1990s it was home CD writers, in the early 2000s it was Napster.

They were able to get a tax placed on "recordable music CDs" and they shut down Napster, but they can't keep the changes at bay any more. One of these days...

Someone's gotta kick these people in the *** and get them to realize it's not 1915 anymore. A slap on the wrist like this "settlement" isn't going to change a thing.

Hey, maybe some original product would help?

[Butch]

The recording industry is quite blatant in its illegal pricing, and its only gotten worse since the introduction of the CD. Do you think there is ANY justification for the fact that pre-recorded CDs cost more than pre-recorded cassettes even though CDs are cheaper to produce? Just look at the relative costs of blank media . . . you can often find large spindles of CDs for the price of a couple blank cassette tapes.

If there weren't collusion of some kind, ONE of the major labels would have taken the role of price leader and dropped the cost of CDs.