P2P needs the RIAA

[evilmegaman]

I just did some thinking and I came across this in one of my thoughts: "why the hell would P2P need the RIAA?" and then I came up with; The RIAA is needed for music Artists to sell their CD's and become popular... and we need CD's to rip to have mp3's or ogg's but without the RIAA there will be almost nothing to rip so just make sure they keep trying to sell CD's.:fire just a thought.. what is your opinion?

[BlueLieu]

I don't think that P2P needs the RIAA. If they went away tomorrow, people would still try to make a living off of their musical/film making abilities. They would just find other avenues to deliver it.

[Theinfamousone]

Ha, well, that's definately not any profound statement. But I agree, in a capitalist society, whatever people will pay good money for, there will be people to make money off of it. ie there is billions to be made selling CDs, there will be artists. Also there's that one thing that I can't remember what it's called where all the garage bands are going to try out and...yeah. It's kind of an opensource RIAA if you will. I can't remember what it's called, does anyone?

I agree. Theoretically if we keep sharing the way we are then pretty soon the artists will just stop making music all together and then there will be no CD’s to rip so we wont have anything to share anymore.

[zebi]

P2P doesn't need the RIAA at all.
There are still millions of people buying cd's.

[paidzero2004]

Originally posted by Koffee Bean
I agree. Theoretically if we keep sharing the way we are then pretty soon the artists will just stop making music all together and then there will be no CD’s to rip so we wont have anything to share anymore.

Artists will stop making music because ppl dl their songs off the web???? You know, Dr. Dre came out once and bitched about how "net pirates" were taking away their livelyhood and that every musician would starve. well, I just saw an episode of MTV cribs, a show notorious for flashing the wealth of entertainment ppl in the face of those who have none, where even the most unpopular band member of an unpopular band was still rolling around in a multi million dollar house driving around in 2 German cars and a bus! P. diddy is worth a quarter billion dollars! Missy Elliot just bought a Lime green Lamborghini! Tommy Lee had Starbucks install a coffee maker in his house!

The DMCA is a joke. I can't believe there aren't lawsuits attacking it. So let me get this straight, if I lend a friend a CD that I bought I am guilty of pirating?? Once I buy the CD, doesn't it become MY property in which I have the right to use in any way I please? I thought that when I "bought" the CD I was owning it and not "renting" it.

Another thing that makes me sick is how the RIAA is contributing file sharing to lower sales over the past few years. Hello??? Is it me or is the country, matter in fact the whole world in a slumping economy??? If I got bills to pay I doubt that buying P. Diddy's next album for $15 is a top priority. Not only that but the quality of music has gone way down. How many times do we have to hear/see Eminem on some music chart?

A true musician/artist is and should be more worried about the quality of their work and that it gets appreciated rather than if they can get yet another Ferrari. My 2 cents

[Theinfamousone]

Originally posted by paidzero2004
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Another thing that makes me sick is how the RIAA is contributing file sharing to lower sales over the past few years. Hello??? Is it me or is the country, matter in fact the whole world in a slumping economy??? If I got bills to pay I doubt that buying P. Diddy's next album for $15 is a top priority. Not only that but the quality of music has gone way down. How many times do we have to hear/see Eminem on some music chart?

A true musician/artist is and should be more worried about the quality of their work and that it gets appreciated rather than if they can get yet another Ferrari. My 2 cents [/b]

Word yo, there's only a handful of companies that have been doing as WELL as the RIAA

[Sockfulloflove]

i don't need no RIAA.

[NDGAARONDI]

we dont need the RIAA - they're only american ppl so they're gonna be English ppl similar to them - so answer is NO!

[isus]

i agree with bluelieu... everybody wants to make money. a baseball player who makes $10 million a year wouldn't wanna start working at mcdonalds for minimum wage. rich ppl are weird like that.

[matstao]

There are lots of labels producing great music that have nothing to do with the RIAA. Many smaller labels choose to remain 'independent' of the RIAA collective and therefore can make up their own minds regarding issues such as p2p trading. If the RIAA ceased to exist, that wouldn't mean that record companies &/or labels would disappear, & it certainly wouldn't mean that true musical artists would stop playing & recording music.

[SnakeAnarchy]

Originally posted by matstao
There are lots of labels producing great music that have nothing to do with the RIAA. Many smaller labels choose to remain 'independent' of the RIAA collective and therefore can make up their own minds regarding issues such as p2p trading. If the RIAA ceased to exist, that wouldn't mean that record companies &/or labels would disappear, & it certainly wouldn't mean that true musical artists would stop playing & recording music.

True, theres many music labes and record companies that have no link to the RIAA. Those are the artist i support, i download their music to see whast i like then i get the cd's i like. Those are real artist with real talent unlike pop-culture computer made music and voices that are on MTV everyday making money and couldnt careless about us or the quality of their music.

[ronniebravo]

Who needs the RIAA --not me in fact they make me nervous.

[evilmegaman]

Think about stocks. if the riaa goes so does a lotta people's jobs and the music artists supported ONLY by them will not be able to make anymore CD's because they become bankrupt from dept they owe to the riaa.. I am not making any sense besides to myself but if you read correctly you may regretably agree

[Siskabush]

Originally posted by evilmegaman
Think about stocks. if the riaa goes so does a lotta people's jobs and the music artists supported ONLY by them will not be able to make anymore CD's because they become bankrupt from dept they owe to the riaa.. I am not making any sense besides to myself but if you read correctly you may regretably agree

Big deal. Those greedy bastards are probably set for life anyway.

As for debt, that is the price you pay for making the blind choice of making music for money instead of making music for the love of it.

If the RIAA crumbled tomorrow, it would be like shattering a vase into many pieces. With the cheap affordability of CD burners these days, artists would start thier own independent recording and distribution services, hire thier friends, etc.

But there will be too many, and new artists will want to join already existing "Independent lables" seeing as they cant afford 100 CD burners or the cost to hire people for help. These Independent labels grow as musicians sign on with them, and the weaker labels finally give up or go bankrupt, and dissapeer from the neo-mainstream of music making.

The remaining labels will then most likely create a Neo-RIAA type thing, therefore taking over the industry, and ruining music once again by raising CD prices, making sure they and the artist has millions and millions of dollars, and pissing off the customer.

Well, of course this would take quite sometime if the RIAA fell today, but it seems that is what would happen in the end. Something for your kids to think about if the RIAA does fall.

And if that didnt happen, the only other thing that could would be this.
The music would stop forever.

That is my 2 cents (And longest post ever :P)