Originally posted by ColoJohnBoy
The record labels shouldn't be so worried about DRM, or P2P or anything like that. Sure, P2P has contributed to declining record sales, but the primary, undeniable factor in their decline is this:
THE MUSIC THEY RELEASE IS S***
This summer, the MPIAA suggested the poor gross returns on movies is due to kids using text-messaging on their cell phones to tell their friends the movie sucks.
It's basically the same thing.
Bringing it back to music, the RIAA is trying to sell us less for more. That much is clear. In light of that, the RIAA would do well to remember that music is just like any other consumer product. If you sell less for more, people will stop buying it.
The RIAA has the opportunity to fix the root cause of music piracy by making the legal procurement of music more desirable than the illegal procurement of music. Instead, it is taking the vindictive route by punishing everybody, regardless of whether the individual pirates music.
I will NEVER buy such a copy-protected CD. I never listen to CDs, I just listen to music on my iBook and iPod. Every song on either device is also on a CD in my rack. There are thousands, maybe millions, of folks like me. The RIAA needs to understand that if it wants to squat down and take a giant poo on consumers, they'll continue to have problems with music piracy.
BTW, the RIAA loses more money each year due to organized-crime piracy than it does to P2P pirates.
