1. P2P file sharing programs have existed since 1992. With that being said, it was good for entertainment industries.

2. In 2001, record sales dropped, but not because of P2P. They dropped because not as many singles were released that year. Taking away the singles & white labels resulted in albums with only 1 or 2 good songs (3 if your lucky). By subtracting singles, you are selling much less records & CDs. Do the Math: Albums – Singles = Less CDs in stores; Less CDs = Less Money for Labels.

3. iTunes never did want to make DRMs encryptions on their music. They never even wanted to charge users 99 cents for buying a song. Why? Because they knew less consumers would actually buy music. Sales dropped about 10% once they started chraging their users for downloading. The DRMs only made matters worse. DRMs made record sales dropped by 15% more. When you add the statistics up, the music has dropped 25% below the national average.

4. Only 2% of the profits Labels get from selling music goes to the artist/s. Sometimes they don’t give music to the artists! The majority of profit artists make are not from Labels, instead its from advertisements, merchandise, & concerts. So when you buy a song from iTunes, where all the money going? Surprisingly you’ll be surprise to find out NONE of it goes to the artist. The reality is when you buy a song, your paying the label. The Labels hardly give a dime to the artists, ever! Instead, they give that money to the RIAA which uses that money to sue innocent people, like single-moms, dead people, old ladies, & even 12 years olds. And as a result, the artists aren’t getting paid a dime. Even in some cases, the labels loss profit because of the RIAA’s tactics.

Its obvious Napster was actually increasing record sales. Little by little, it was making for the loss in selling singles. However, the RIAA had different plans? Why? Because music was being advertised in a way they were not used to. They are a traditional monopoly, meaning they want to sell music the traditional way. This means they want to go to your local record store & buy the music there instead of actually buying the album online or hears 2-3 songs by a artist who’s music your interested in buying. Its all a big scam & you fell for it!

What happened as a result of the RIAA’s monopolistic fascist marketing skills & bad mathematics:

1. DMCA was passed in 2003; record sales dropped much futher.
2. In 2006 – record sales fell 25% below the national average.
3. Canada legalized P2P file sharing programs; their sales increased by 20% after realizing the RIAA’s marketing skills were bad for business.
4. More & more consumers are starting to see that paying for music is a stupid idea. “What next? Will I have to pay just to download Adobe Flash Player? Or will I have to pay $1.00 everytime I open my browser?” <<– Do you see what the entertainment industry is planning? Also, More & more people are now downloading music & not paying a single dime because of they have realize that that the Labels don’t care for the consumers. They don’t even care about how consumers feel about DRMs & now look at them! They’re literally dying!

Now they are blaming Internet/Satellite radio for piracy, & it gets worse. They’re also planning on suing USB hard drive manufacteurs! Notice a pattern?:

First it was P2P,
Then it was Internet Radio,
Now its USB manufacteurs.

Its clear the RIAA blaming everyone but themselves for low record sales. If they succeed, Internet radio will not be as multicultural as it is now.

I took college economics, so you have to trust me on all the information I provided. A lot of people are switching to the P2P systems & are sticking with them, besides, you have more important things to spend your on. Period!

About 6 months ago, I started buying all my music on iTunes. It’s easy, fast, and too good to be true. Finding related music is easy and fun to do.

iTunes is cheap(er than other competing CD sales programs) and there really is no good alternative to it.

Because you purchase these CD’s for $15 – $20 bucks and many of them are now copy protected that you can’t download the music from the cd you just purchased to itunes. Now why do I want to pay 99cents for songs that I already have?

In these instances, I do use http://www.mynofeemusic.com to get the music & movies I deserve!!!

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Why can’t my friends lend me their music? Have you never ever borrowed a CD/tape from your friend/cousin?

Frankly the high prices are not justified. Discographies and entire albums on torrents are better than DRMed files.

http://www.jamendo.com and http://www.magnatune.com are also an option for discovering music.

I have collected over 3,000 CDs and countless crates of vinyl.

Being both a musician who writes and performs music as well as being a music lover I appreciated this article to no end.

Danke!

However, my only quam with iTunes is the crappy 128kbps AAC file you get. I’d like it to be around 256 or perhaps lossless – I’d even pay an extra quarter for it. Once you have iTunes hooked up to a stereo with a real power amp and decent loudspeakers it sounds like a crappy Aiwa boombox.

I enjoyed reading this lovely little… editorial, if you will and all the comments to follow.
P.S. Taking Back Sunday IS a well known band and doing just fine despite pirating music.

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I write you from France with my “little” english !
Sorry for mistakes.

I buy music on Internet too.

Why do I buy music ?

Because I don’t steal my bread, I don’t steal my shoes, I don’t steal the electricity for my house, I don’t steal the gas for my car, so why do I would steal my music ?

It is not because music is not “physiquement palpable, comme du pain, mais virtuelle parce que numérique” that we can share it and steal it.
It is not my fault, it is the “societé de consommation” who wants that.
I’m a good guy, I respect the laws as often as possible (nobody is perfect !).
With pleasure to read you.
Pierre