Bush admin: RIAA win shows copyright law is 'effective'

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srael also said: "Piracy impacts many of our most innovative industries, costs American jobs and is a huge threat to our economic competitiveness.""

They are losing money, and are still able to produce more and more shitty movies and music? I cant believe that he's is serious. He really should watch some of all the crappy movies USA produces and then think about how they spend millions and millions only on advertisements for these movies.

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blaming crappy movies for there downturn is a terrible argument. why would people be stealing stuff so readily if it really was bad?

anyway for the record industry their monopoly is slowly crumbling and this sort of court action is going to be ultimately pointless.

for an insider look at where the industry is going at the minute check out this new book being writtten by gerd leonherd

His message for the middlemen: "You are about to become squashed between hundreds of managers and artists that want to go direct, large retailers like amazon that re-write the rules of online music selling (think bundles... think flat-rate), telcos and operators that are getting fed up with the tedious and outmoded licensing practices, and search engines that are powering or becoming music communities and the next generation of radio."

The record companies are no longer needed to get the product to the customers since the internet and the mp3 format seem to be dominating the market at the minute.


of course cd's and other media will always be wanted by fans and if online retailers like amazon where really smart they would cut deals with artists to actually produce and ship a physical product for a reasonable fee.

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What I was saying was that even if they really would lose alot og money, they are still able to spend lots on advertisment?

anways....

The record companies are no longer needed to get the product to the customers since the internet and the mp3 format seem to be dominating the market at the minute.

I think its going the right way. Instead of all money going to the big record companies, they actually go to the ones making the music, when talking about non pirated material