Boycotting CDS

[Triple_T]

since the RIAA and everyone else similar decides to take heavy measures to stop file sharing and get the buying of cds back, we should just stop buying cds all together. i know you might say you dont because you have a p2p client, but you also might be saying that boycotting the cds might feed the RIAA's rage. i say that they will be mad at the begining, but will soon come to realize that there is nothing they can do.

[Celtic Fox]

what's a CD? will it fit into my portable Samsung mp3 player?

[Wolfie]

This makes the nth time such thread has been made and there have been no united front to boycott CDs.

Everyone has thier own veiws on buying (and from there how much they buy) or not buying CDs on p2p sites. Plus the majority of ppl who still buys CDs are not hanging out at p2p sites so such call to arms over here is not very effective (at least here) in reaching the appropiate target group.

This is like preaching the choir because most ppl who post here either don't buy at all or buy significantly less than non-p2p ppl.

[shawners]

we may not be able to boycott but we are still able to protest among them by showing them how many file sharing programs are downloaded a day, how many cd's sales that slip to oblivion, how many albums hit the p2p sites before their release, and of course my favorite, How many bills, and laws they have to make to even stop one user from using the p2p. I say MAY we never be complete, i saw let the chips fall where they lay, And We are not a beautiful flower, we are thee same decaying matter as everything else, The Fight Club.

[isus]

i've boycotted cd's for years...

it's fun too.

just to know that people are willing to buy cd's makes me chuckle. but then i think, hey, what if everybody boycotted cd's? then we would have no fresh music entering p2p.

then i think about the kazaa users (the stupid ones, who use the official client).

and i stop worrying.

[tackdaddy]

i have'nt bought a cd for over 2 years and i never will again.

[Undermind]

I don't know about boycotting CDs all together, there is some stuff that you just can't find on p2p networks, if you can go without buying a CD for over a year, either you have given up looking for new talent, or you listen to way too much pop music

[Siskabush]

whoa there Undermind.

I havent bought a CD in over a year now, and i find all kinds of fresh talent, rare techno/metal, etc.

Pop music sucks nuts.

[Triple_T]

yea i was just curious, because i know that would probably enrage the RIAA more, but if ppl on p2p servers, or the makers of the p2p clients would just advertise the band, on a simple banner add no annoying popups, and give profits from the to the RIAA i think that might do a little, like maybe if all of the clients some how earner a couple thousand together and handed it to the RIAA it would be a little hush money? i personally think that would work and shut them up.

[zaphodiv]

>like maybe if all of the clients some how earner a couple thousand together and handed it to the RIAA it would be a little hush money?

LOL, you have no idea how much money the recording industry earns kid. They ignored napsters offer of 50 million a year.

[Siskabush]

They earn 12 billion a year, but they settle piracy cases for 50000$ total.

It would probably work.

[FreakinWeasel]

Fact is that the Artists and Record Companies support th RIAA and MPAA. So since the Artists make the bulk of their bread from concerts, just don't go this year. Then don't buy any cd's for just this year. Then they may notice that we don't like the fact that they support these organizations. But we need to make a united front of protest about what we're pissed about. The arguement about how all our music should be free don't float, so what else is relevant? Price fixing, sh$tty treatment of the artists, what else???? What do you want to see as the future of music. The artists must get paid, a fair wage. We have to keep the idiot masses from buying into the crap that the industry is feeding to them. Just seeing how much effort is spent on the American Idol sh$t curdles my blood. And now they come out with a movie with two of them? A long time ago, I was into riding dirt bikes and there was a huge push to close all kinds of open space (BLM) and OHV lands. One guy, Bob Wick, in my area started a letter campaign called "Dirt Alert". He registered people for a yearly fee of $25 bucks and sent you packets of pre-formed letters to sign complete with the addresses of the politician to send them to. He had numbers that went something like this.
One form letter stamped sig = one letter
One form letter hand signed= 10 letters
One hand written copy of form letter = 100 letters
One original letter hand signed = 1000 letters
He was no dummy to how politics work. He ended up running for Senate and winning but he died before he could take office. Point is that it worked well. We kept 10's of thousands of acres available for riding and made the Washington crowd take notice of us.
Anyway you get my drift. All the pissing and moaning is for nothing if we don't deliver our message to our leaders. So what it going to be, their way? Or fight for something better. It's up to us.

[dr. damn]

I've quit purchasing new CDs, cassette tapes, as well as "audio" CD-Rs. I'd recommend everyone here do the same.

[ATLien]

Originally posted by Triple_T
since the RIAA and everyone else similar decides to take heavy measures to stop file sharing and get the buying of cds back, we should just stop buying cds all together. i know you might say you dont because you have a p2p client, but you also might be saying that boycotting the cds might feed the RIAA's rage. i say that they will be mad at the begining, but will soon come to realize that there is nothing they can do.
Dude, you still buy CD's?

"Mommie, whats a CD?"

[ThePillarOfAutumn]

i ruined this frekane cd 3 times already - guess iam gonna have to burn another copy. Dam coasters..... i bet the dumpsters full of them by now.

[ATLien]

Originally posted by Dealie
I wonder if the environmentalists know about these things called coasters.... er... cd's.


FYI.. you can bring back most cd's without serious scratches with a good buff and polish with some armor all..

How about them custom made "coasters" from, AOL?
So nice of them to send free samples in the mail!

[Triple_T]

>LOL, you have no idea how much money the recording industry earns kid. They ignored napsters offer of 50 million a year.


Im talking about something like that, im not saying any set amount, whatever they earn from ads and stuff, and all of the p2p networks together, and only one offered 50 million imagine how much all p2p networks together could make

[Patryck]

Nope, haven't baught CDs since 1996. Discovered Mp3.com years later, then AudioGalaxy with Ratio trades :| , Napster, FTPMX, Morpheus, Kazaa, WinMX.

The price of CDs wern't affordable to me since then.