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In your opinion is the RIAA winning or loosing?

the-erm	Date: October 22, 2004 @ 4:49 PM I follow this RIAA thing pretty good. It seems like for every 1 article about the RIAA loosing out on the p2p battle, I read 10 say they are winning. The good news is the ones that whenever I read an article on giving the p2p crowd some headway it's always on the big issues. Like recently: RIAA must file anonymous "John Doe" lawsuits http://www.zeropaid.com/news/articles/auto/10122004a.php Then there's the induce act being stopped (that was good news) So seriously are they winning? I don't share on p2p networks any more. I used to be one of these high volume distributers if you can call it that. Until I heard about the sueing. I just can't afford any of that, and from what I can tell if we all banned together something could be done. Erm
DeltaF86	Date: October 24, 2004 @ 11:03 PM P2p is crap for quality and for selection these days it seems. It sucks to much to dl a song with a modem when you don't know what it is. No p2p isn't the problem. I think that they will find it out the hard way when there is no incentive for either bands to sign or people to buy thier music. Things will change. In this case, to another distributer of music.
wet1	Date: November 8, 2004 @ 9:25 PM The RIAA has chosen to select the p2p as their whipping boy to recieve the blame for all their woes. What the majors haven't accepted is that isn't going to fix it. Where the problem really lies is with an outmoded business model dating back to the 30's or so when it was considered good business not to give a sucker an even break (this coming from an earlier article in the news feeds). It isn't just the business model alone, competion for the shelf space in stores, smaller displays for their product, less distributers, poor quatlity of artist (which in turn makes for poor quality music), aiming at the wrong market, price gouging, stopping the practice of selling singles, no longer grooming artists for the long haul, wanting the money now instead of investing for the future, the locking up of access to be heard by any artist worth hearing, predatory business practices, and on and on. The majors are dead if they don't change. Read the message on the wall, they have. Rather than change they have decided to sue customers; certainly not something that is going to bring more into the store to buy. Much like the dinosaurs, the majors are big. Takes a long while to get the message to the head. When it gets tight enough they will play make a deal with the p2p's. Only then.
doomroot	Date: November 13, 2004 @ 4:51 AM They could never stop P2P no matter how much they try to do - and the truth is they can only do so much and much of it is scare tactics. The more they try to stop it the stronger it gets - and when the record industry realizes that you can't cell cds in plastic cases that cost $0.10 to make for $20 then it could only expect major changes and even some of the legal p2p's are too expensive right now.
bulletxtheory	Date: November 14, 2004 @ 6:54 AM P2P is getting really lame now, it's full of crap more than ever but they're not gonna get rid of it just yet, maybe eventually if they lower prices of cds