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Thanks to reading the rants of the pro music monoply folks, I've made a list of my entire music collection, brought it to work, and offered to make copies of any cd for anyone who just asks for it, free. It'll cost me a few bucks, but I suggest everyone do the same thing. This is a protest to the RIAA's decision (and some of the artists, too) to maintain their marketing practices of making us buy a whole load of rotten music in order to get one good song on a CD. Yes, I know that Imusic has started to sell by the song, but doesn't have everything available yet. RIAA, get with the program. You will all still make money. You've had the technology to put CD burning machines in the music stores for quite a while, and could have sold people what they wanted. Instead, you sold only what you wanted. THAT is what created the nightmare that you call Kazaa and the rest of the peer to peer music sharing programs. You caused it yourselves. Now you have a chance to fix it. But you don't have much time. People root for the little guy; and that's not you. Your heavy handed tactics of going after the poorest targets will be resented by all. And we will protest by giving away copies of all the music we own to anyone who asks, all they will have to do is give us a blank CD. Hey, we like shopping in the music stores. Browsing is fun. Looking over the available songs and checking out the cover art of the disks. But we're not going to be ripped off anymore. If you don't act quickly, many music stores will close, and without a large enough market no new ones will open. Simple; put a server and a stack of burners behind the counter. One sales clerk. A row of listening booths with terminals to choose what tracks to add to their own personally created CD. It's so simple that I can't believe you haven't done it already. But I guess GREED just gets into you, all you see is the dollar signs, and nothing else. But it's about to end. You can legislate all you want, but the will of the people will done. Technology is changing the market. Remember the movie 'Other People's Money'? And his reference to all the companies that made buggy whips in 1900? That's you. Change with the market or you'll eventually lose 99% of your business. Sure, you can change your strategy to making money by suing people, but that won't make up for everything you'll lose in sales. And the smart artists will start selling directly over the net. Where will you be then? My guess is that you will still be around, but perhaps 95% of your employees will be out of work, and the majority of record labels that exist today will be out of business. Oh, and don't look for us on Kazaa, many of us prefer to no longer be visable targets. But we're going to be giving away a lot more of your product than ever before, all thanks to your own greed. And you know what? Charity feels even better when you get to screw someone back who's been screwing you. We know you don't really care about the artists; we've read the headlines where the artists don't get the royalties that you owe them. We know you don't care about your customers, because you've always been able to force us to buy what you want us to. But now you have to worry about your own survival, and maybe that's really the only thing that will get you to change. Good luck.
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