RIAA Targets parents, Grandparents

[TBoneit]

I am going back to recording music off the radio, hehe. Maybe I will even get a tape deck again. Can I burn to Vinyl? Well atleast I can burn it to my HD or CD. I have never used the p2p programs, but I have found many of my clients whom have and I have warned them of the potential problems. I imagine we will see new laws and many changes in the next year and a half.

Johny who is downloading music videos, mp3s and movies in his bedroom while mom and dad are enjoying watching one of the movies Johny downloaded the other day in the living room is becoming an American pastime. Eventually the interent will be taxxed, movies will be legal to d/l from the internet and watch, and the same with music. I imagine the tax will pay some sort of usage fee, which maybe a good way to go, but not by tax, but by subscription.

We will always see groups and people challenging this or trying make it free, but this was not a problem until Johny(ordinary kid) who is not your local techie nerd was able to get online and d/l easily... Napster baby.

Yup you can burn (so to speak Vinyl)

I have two Redord Cutters in the Attic, they were working back in the 70s when you could still get blank media. I seem to recall that I still have a 10 pack of blank 10" media up there too. One of these days I may get busy and try to sell. One was a player/recorder and one was a AM/Shortwave Player/Recorder.

Side note the media came in grades depending on the quality and smoothness of the surface. Somewhere In the House I still have some that were cut by parents and grandparents in the 40s.

And no I'm not that old, I just got them in trade when I was a teen from neighbors. Still have an old rca 10" round picture tube B&W Tv too. Wish I had the neighbors even older Tv, Big thing that projected the picture on a mirror in the lid from a 3" or maybe 5" B&W tube. Picture wasn't that big, but very early model of TV.

As for P2P I see so many of them on computers coming into where I work. and the Adware/Spyware/Malware baggage they contain, whew!

And some parents attitude, when you say don't use Kazaa, then I hear where are my kids supposed to download "Their" music, Their music? They are in effect stealing it and the parents and kids are calling it my music?

If you don't like the price don't buy, the law of supply and demand will lower the price then.

So it costs the record label and Microsoft 1 or 2 dollars to duplicate and package the Cd. They aren't entitled to get paid for cost of acquistion/development? Advertising, distributors can't make a profit? they can't make a profit so they can acquire more or develop more (S/W)?

I frequent another forum where a user developed and distributes s/w, most support requests are from non paying users that never purchased it. since he wrote and distrubtes he knows. He has already said to heck with it never again. so someone got free software and it won' be updated for real purchasers and new poss. innovative software developed. That's a real benefit.

My opinion, YMMV

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I've started a different thread for the Kobe Bryant discussion to keep things on topic here.

https://www.videohelp.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=170307

[dun4cheap]

Interesting one with the friend. Maybe he should give the software out for free and charge for support. Maybe an interesting concept, MS uses it all the time. Either way it is a tough market, and while I don't object to paying $130 for windows xp oem, I feel when I purchase it I should be able to install it on all of my personal computers in the house. Maybe a $10 surcharge per computer, but why $130? Another thing, I purchase well developed software all the time, but I am tiered of having to need the CD to run it. This is why I have a 180 gig hard drive, so I don't have to be inconvenienced. So the industry needs to change the rules so the game plays smoother.

Cool info on the records. I am 31 and had records, but I have never seen a recorder. I am of the age of getting to watch the transition from record, reel to reel, cassette tape and cd. I was a teen purchasing 100's of cds, about 10 a week to be precise, but I think I love the mp3 erra the most. 1 cd, 20-30 of my albums...