Article on wot the bbc says about p2p and downloading

[Drazi1]

Ello am a newbie here so plz forgive me if this article has been posted . I came across this on the BBC News Tech website > I think it will prove interesting on what has been said .

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/3117505.stm


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[FutureIverson]

welcome to zeropaid, i think it has it's alright

[broadwayrock]

Thats a good article Drazi1

Welcome to zeropaid!

[NDGAARONDI]

Welcome to ZP, mate. Yes I didn't recognise it at first. Then I realised the last paragraph was my sig lol

[Theinfamousone]

Great article, it should be printed in the New York Times. After all, a corporation sueing thousands of average joes over file sharing deserves atleast a little publicity.

[Afn]

If you look at the numbers, 39,000 releases? If each release is one hour each, they as an industry are producing more material than one has time to even sample. add that to last years output and it does not take a scientist to figure out if you have 60,000 to 100,000 releases in the last four years, there are going to be very few number one hits.

[tMoD]

I think perhaps the most compelling, and most interesting, argument in the article is that young people are no longer defined as much by their musical tastes and the RIAA has to compete more for teens' discretionary income. This is definitely a noticeable and positive change from when I was growing up where you had heshers, new romantics, punks, mods, etc. all hating each other. We were all fucking idiots back then.

[NDGAARONDI]

We're all f*cking idiots now. What's with the anti townie anti goth sh!t about?

[Afn]

Originally posted by tMoD
a noticeable and positive change from when I was growing up where you had heshers, new romantics, punks, mods, etc.[/B]

Radio in the USA defined markets and gave the riaa a 'free' advertising venue that with industry consodiation by the late 1990's riaa industry members controlled 80%+ of the market. The compact disc made vinyl records obsolete and took away the market from the independents.


College rock, country, AOR, every genere or radio format except news/talk is going the way of the dinosaur.

The new teens do not see music as interesting or needed as our generation did. Then again, perhaps I was one of those kids with a strange attraction to glowing transmitter tubes and the people who produce content.

[NDGAARONDI]

That sounds like a shop I went to that sold stuff for techno nightclubs. Looked really cool, even though I'm a rocker lol

[random]

thx for the article drazi1