RIAA impact on industry

[Grind$oFine]

I think the music industry placing blame on piracy as being the reason record sales have gone down is ridiculous. Maybe it moreso has to do with the fact that the quality of music has declined, or maybe the fact artists don't care about working hard on albums anymore, how many perfect cds can you think of that are modern and mainstream.
Artists sometimes release albums more than once per year. Sometimes a few times per year.. why? So they can make more money by only only putting one or two singles on 15 track albums, thus causing people to want all the albums....
No typical person could afford to buy every cd they want, nor the merchandise and concert tickets they'd like... that's ridiculous.
There are OTHER things the music industry should be worried about other than piracy.
Piracy or not, money will come to good artists because a lot of people will still buy the album if they really like it, people buy other merchandise, people will buy concert tickets. People will always spend their money to support musicians.
Piracy has definitely been an aid to musicians, making these albums available to that number of people, creating a HUGE domino effect, especially because these "pirates" will spread it to more friends and etc... the radio, MTV, and music stores cannot say they've affected anywhere near as many people as file sharing sites/programs...
Besides OiNK closes, and people are either looking for a new site or a new method to do the same... and it will never be stopped. There will always be another method to do this.

Will closing OiNK cause record sales to go up?
Probably not.

Will closing OiNK cause concert sales and merchandise sales and records sales fan-bases to go down?
It's definitely more accurate.

[briand5379]

Old media needs to learn how to use new media to it's advantage. It's gotten better at it but still has alot to learn. Closing BT sites are nice and dandy but the more they close the more people learn that there are places out there that will tell the RIAA and the MPAA and other agencies to go F themselves cause it's not their problem.

I only started on BT cause the quality of music and movies were crap and the studios were allowed to get away with it. In addition to that you had TV shows from 10 years ago that you couldn't get access to because it hasn't been put out on dvd yet. I'm sorry but paying $20 for 1 good song is ridiculous along with paying $10 to see some crap film. How about a money back guarentee on those films. They brought it on themselves.