MP3 Laws Unfair to Consumers
Beware of RIAA
Here is an interesting article on the king of the downloads and his opinion of the laws surrounding downloading.
This site examines what the law says.
And the following are examples of the freedoms that we as consumers should have, and examples of how the music companies are not fair. If only congress would listen to the little guy!
Under law a person is only allowed to make one copy of a song that they own. This copyright law is unfair to the consumer. If I want to make a party tape of various songs that I like and I get tired of that particular mix, I cannot legally re-copy any song. That is extreme, and the consumers are tired of the abuse in power of the record companies. Consumers should take note that the Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA) was involved in the hearings on digital piracy. One theory is that the MPAA is trying to prevent recording of television or movies that will be broadcasted in the HDTV format.
I disagree that parents should have to pay the penalties of music that is downloaded by their children. For any such laws to be fair, the consumer (not the MPAA) should benefit from them as well. The consumer should be able to hold the rights to any song they ever buy. If they bought a song as a record, LP, EP, or 45, they should be allowed to download the song in any format. The record companies should take the blame for faulty formats that scratch or stop playing appropriately. The music companies were less than honest when they justified raising the price of an album two dollars because they said it cost them more to make a CD than to release it in the cassette format. If that were the case, the price should have been lowered when CDs became less costly. I believe that the music companies should allow downloading of music. Instead they should release the material in attractive packaging while always guaranteeing high levels of crystal clear fidelity.
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posted by Randy Black @ 10:43 PM
2 Comments:
Hey Randy,
If you remember, back in the day, the music industry was having a cow about people recording on cassette tapes. They wanted an extra tax levied (iirc--the brain, she no work so good no more)on cassette purchases, and tried to put the kabosh on DAT altogether. They tried to make it seem that cassettes would be the end of the music industry. Unfortunately, that didn't happen.
All their "the sky if falling" sqawking, is just what it appears to be--irrational hand wringing by incompetent businessmen, caught with their pants down re: new technology. Instead of embracing it, they are trying to destroy it; they would rather see new technology die than to lose control over every aspect of music production and distribution.
Just giving you my 2 cents, cuz that's what I do.
Thanks for posting a comment on my blog, too. First thing I thought when I saw your post was,"OOh, Mannlista!" I'm mighty chuffed.
It is true that they are paranoid. Another example is the fact that England is wanting to copyright all software to a 20 year ban on their codes being implemented on other software. Many think it will spell the end of Linux, their cheif software export.
Also, two new competing CD/DVD players that use red lazers or blue lazers that can have many more bands on a single disc making it easy to have like all of the Saturday Night Live Shows on one disc are probably not going to be recordable. Many feel like the change in format is to do away with the MP3's and Wave files, etc., that are so popular. The home unit console CD burners on the market now already will prevent people from burning a song more than once. There are ways around it, but they shouldn't be needed.
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