Posted by: Anonymous Coward
on August 03, 2003 09:31 AM
RIAA pirates part 2 Conclusion:
We have to get out of the mind set that we are buying disks or tapes. We are purchasing licenses. The physical media that it is on is just a way of conveying it to you the purchaser. When you purchase dowloadable music online, you never see a cdrom because it is conveyed to you the purchaser by electronic media. Even Microsoft doesn't make you buy a new license for windows because of unusable media. The're only interested in COA's and Product Keys. The recording companies like it just fine that we buy the same licenses over and over again. They are absolute zealots at trying to stop us from making backups of the media we purchase on flimsy, unprotected, easily damaged disks but have never once offered a remedy for the reason we need to make backups. It is more than reasonable for us to expect to purchase only one license for any artists particular work. And that sellers of recording licenses should be obligated to assist us purchasers in maintaining those licenses on current, usable media. Even more so if their going to try to prevent us from making our own backups.
To end this injustice the recording companies should change their policies and make available through their distributors:
1) Replacements for broken or unusable media for the cost of the media. If it got cracked, chipped, eaten, scatched, folded, melted, or just plain worn out, or like US currency anything over half is whole anything under half is zero.
2) Media format upgrades and updates. If it's on an LP, 45, 8track or cassette,etc, bring in the original for an upgrade to the current media format for the cost of the media.
That would be Justice !
The recording companies would actually make money on these exchanges. Even at an exchange rate of one or two dollars they would make money because they are just replacing the media. They don't have to pay out royalties to artists. They are just repackaging a license on new, fresh media. They could even replace just the actual disk in a sleeve instead shipping the jewel boxes. It would even help stop bootleggers because people would know they wouldn't ever be able to return or exchange them when they became unusable. Local brick and mortar recording stores could be revived from the slow death they are experiencing because it makes more sense to exchange media at a local shop (lower shipping costs) rather than having each individual packing up and shipping disks or tapes one at a time. They would become relevent again. They would become our backups. ( "oops! My Queen BR CD is skipping so I'm on my way to my local Recording Shop for a replacement. While I'm there, I'll have a look around for something else I might like to buy") Is it an assault on common sense to think that getting people into your store for exchanging a broken record, could lead to the purchase of something ?
The Recording company executives have been struck stupid by their greed. In this slow economy why don't they institute the above media exchange policy? It's the right thing to do and it's a source of income for God sake ! I personally have five or six hundred dollars worth of broken media or formats to upgrade. They might even experience a precipitous drop in their so called "rampant piracy". How much of this so called rampant piracy is simply people upgrading or replacing media on licenses they already own? Maybe just downloading the contents of one of their muddy sounding, worn out cassette tapes so they can enjoy that legally licensed music again. And who could really blame them for "Taking some digital Justice" ? Just my humble opinion. Zeek.....
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RIAA pirates part 2
Posted by: Anonymous Coward on August 03, 2003 09:31 AMWe have to get out of the mind set that we are buying disks or tapes. We are purchasing licenses. The physical media that it is on is just a way of conveying it to you the purchaser. When you purchase dowloadable music online, you never see a cdrom because it is conveyed to you the purchaser by electronic media. Even Microsoft doesn't make you buy a new license for windows because of unusable media. The're only interested in COA's and Product Keys. The recording companies like it just fine that we buy the same licenses over and over again. They are absolute zealots at trying to stop us from making backups of the media we purchase on flimsy, unprotected, easily damaged disks but have never once offered a remedy for the reason we need to make backups. It is more than reasonable for us to expect to purchase only one license for any artists particular work. And that sellers of recording licenses should be obligated to assist us purchasers in maintaining those licenses on current, usable media. Even more so if their going to try to prevent us from making our own backups.
To end this injustice the recording companies should change their policies and make available through their distributors:
1) Replacements for broken or unusable media for the cost of the media. If it got cracked, chipped, eaten, scatched, folded, melted, or just plain worn out, or like US currency anything over half is whole anything under half is zero.
2) Media format upgrades and updates. If it's on an LP, 45, 8track or cassette,etc, bring in the original for an upgrade to the current media format for the cost of the media.
That would be Justice !
The recording companies would actually make money on these exchanges. Even at an exchange rate of one or two dollars they would make money because they are just replacing the media. They don't have to pay out royalties to artists. They are just repackaging a license on new, fresh media. They could even replace just the actual disk in a sleeve instead shipping the jewel boxes. It would even help stop bootleggers because people would know they wouldn't ever be able to return or exchange them when they became unusable. Local brick and mortar recording stores could be revived from the slow death they are experiencing because it makes more sense to exchange media at a local shop (lower shipping costs) rather than having each individual packing up and shipping disks or tapes one at a time. They would become relevent again. They would become our backups. ( "oops! My Queen BR CD is skipping so I'm on my way to my local Recording Shop for a replacement. While I'm there, I'll have a look around for something else I might like to buy") Is it an assault on common sense to think that getting people into your store for exchanging a broken record, could lead to the purchase of something ?
The Recording company executives have been struck stupid by their greed. In this slow economy why don't they institute the above media exchange policy? It's the right thing to do and it's a source of income for God sake ! I personally have five or six hundred dollars worth of broken media or formats to upgrade. They might even experience a precipitous drop in their so called "rampant piracy". How much of this so called rampant piracy is simply people upgrading or replacing media on licenses they already own? Maybe just downloading the contents of one of their muddy sounding, worn out cassette tapes so they can enjoy that legally licensed music again. And who could really blame them for "Taking some digital Justice" ? Just my humble opinion. Zeek.....
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