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RIAA - Ridding the Internet of its Awesome Abilities

ca98am79 18y ago
They will try to rid the internet of its awesome abilities, but it is obvious that they will, in the end, fail. The internet is an unstoppable force
- j2d2 18y ago
  s/The internet/The ingenious of ability of digital information to spread/
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adrianwaj 18y ago
The RIAA has been doing this since Napster with concerted and ruthless effort - in other words for the last 9 years. I am a little sick of hearing about this type of news, as I am with the music of a now much smaller stable of artists the Big Labels have been pumping into the community during this time. Here are some factors I attribute to the decline in the music industry: - Artists are locked into contracts with RIAA labels - Most artists still looking for the best deal. Label can provide advances and recording studios. Even big name artists speaking out against P2P. - CDs, which were once the dominant format are now being marginalized, but only slowly. The equipment is still around and goes through a replacement cycle by users. Handheld and car players have taken time to be developed and purchased. - Ogg and FLAC have only slowly risen in popularity, with MP3 a royalty imbuing format and yet the most prevalent. - ISP bandwith costs for streaming have had to come down. - Too many music sites competing for the same small-to-medium sized bands. No unified charts that could theoretically be created. - Not enough umbrella organizations for non-RIAA sites and artists: does SoundExhange have an independent competitor? - MusicBrainz (music metadata) not universal enough - Micropayments not mainstream - song-profiling, listener-profiling only a recent development, and proprietary - Listeners still very much in love with old songs (RIAA back catalogue) with new music often of short-term quality - Massive RIAA lobbying for home internet streaming laws, and legal action against P2P users. - Semantic web features still in early phases to make audio and video a "free-floating" entity - Home sound recording and production technology still improving to studio quality levels - Ticketing and gig tracking sites: no clear cut destination. - Does iTunes provide enough price differences between RIAA and non-RIAA content?

They will try to rid the internet of its awesome abilities, but it is obvious that they will, in the end, fail. The internet is an unstoppable force

j2d2 18y ago
s/The internet/The ingenious of ability of digital information to spread/
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adrianwaj 18y ago

The RIAA has been doing this since Napster with concerted and ruthless effort - in other words for the last 9 years. I am a little sick of hearing about this type of news, as I am with the music of a now much smaller stable of artists the Big Labels have been pumping into the community during this time. Here are some factors I attribute to the decline in the music industry: - Artists are locked into contracts with RIAA labels - Most artists still looking for the best deal. Label can provide advances and recording studios. Even big name artists speaking out against P2P. - CDs, which were once the dominant format are now being marginalized, but only slowly. The equipment is still around and goes through a replacement cycle by users. Handheld and car players have taken time to be developed and purchased. - Ogg and FLAC have only slowly risen in popularity, with MP3 a royalty imbuing format and yet the most prevalent. - ISP bandwith costs for streaming have had to come down. - Too many music sites competing for the same small-to-medium sized bands. No unified charts that could theoretically be created. - Not enough umbrella organizations for non-RIAA sites and artists: does SoundExhange have an independent competitor? - MusicBrainz (music metadata) not universal enough - Micropayments not mainstream - song-profiling, listener-profiling only a recent development, and proprietary - Listeners still very much in love with old songs (RIAA back catalogue) with new music often of short-term quality - Massive RIAA lobbying for home internet streaming laws, and legal action against P2P users. - Semantic web features still in early phases to make audio and video a "free-floating" entity - Home sound recording and production technology still improving to studio quality levels - Ticketing and gig tracking sites: no clear cut destination. - Does iTunes provide enough price differences between RIAA and non-RIAA content?