Suing Your Best Customers
Tom Hendricks / Musea
I want you to compare these two news articles:
The first "Jury Rules Against Minn. Woman in Download Case" tells
about how one woman was fined $1.92 million for file sharing. She
'willfully violated the copyrights on 24 songs' and is fined $80,000
per song! This award is an outrage. Can you imagine anyone doing less
harm, paying more? The Big Four, Warner, Universal, EMI, and Sony,
were all involved in the lawsuit. They control 80% of the music
business. I think this tactic of suing customers makes them look even
more greedy and out of touch, then most think they are now.
http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2347258,00.asp
Then compare that with this article, "The RIAA Has Got to Stop". It
shows that file sharing has been the main reason why customers buy
recordings! "Those who freely download music from file-sharing sites
and elsewhere buy ten times more music... than people who do not
participate in file-sharing systems."
Malcolm Dew-Jones
: Readers,
: http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2347258,00.asp
On that topic, it is interesting to note:
Canada has had some of the most liberal copyright rules (though that may
be about to change) and is considered by some to be a haven of
downloaders.
Industry figures I read and then quoted here about a year ago showed that
Canada had the largest increase in recording music revenue of any country.
The recording industry as a whole had had an actual increase of something
like 10%, whereas USA (as one example) had an absolute decrease. (Those
figures were from before the recent world and US economic problems.
Admitedly they include all aspects of the industry, not just straight CD
sales, so for example recording studio revenue was included.)
In terms of being good for artists, you may have noticed that there has
been what appears to be a disproportionate number of Canadian musicians on
the charts in recent years. Also a variety of non-Canadian acts have
(proportionately) their largest sales in Canada. So for example Hillary
Duff's 2007 tour had close to one half of her concerts in Canadian cities
(though Canada has only one tenth the population of the US).
I do not find it hard to believe the last paragraph of Tom Hendricks
posting quoted above.
$0.10
aluode
wrote:
> Readers,
> I want you to compare these two news articles:
>
>
> The first "Jury Rules Against Minn. Woman in Download Case" tells
> about how one woman was fined $1.92 million for file sharing. She
> 'willfully violated the copyrights on 24 songs' and is fined $80,000
> per song! This award is an outrage. Can you imagine anyone doing less
> harm, paying more? The Big Four, Warner, Universal, EMI, and Sony,
> were all involved in the lawsuit. They control 80% of the music
> business. I think this tactic of suing customers makes them look even
> more greedy and out of touch, then most think they are now.
>
> http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2347258,00.asp
>
> Then compare that with this article, "The RIAA Has Got to Stop". It
> shows that file sharing has been the main reason why customers buy
> recordings! "Those who freely download music from file-sharing sites
> and elsewhere buy ten times more music... than people who do not
> participate in file-sharing systems."
Richard Marx whose song was one of those copied actually attacked
riaa against the verdict:
Antti
Tom Hendricks
>
> Antti
Thanks for that link.