Warner Music group calls the file sharing war, Inadvertent

[RedjackRyan]

"Edgar Bronfman, CEO of the Warner Music Group, has publicly framed the music industry's failure to accommodate file-sharing as an 'inadvertent' war on consumers (http://www.pcpro.co.uk/macuser/news/138990/music-boss-we-were-wrong-to-go-to-war-with-consumers.html). I'm left wondering how you can file a series of lawsuits (http://recordingindustryvspeople.blogspot.com/) inadvertently. 'We expected our business would remain blissfully unaffected even as the world of interactivity, constant connection and file sharing was exploding ... By ... moving at a glacial pace, we inadvertently went to war with consumers by denying them what they wanted and could otherwise find and as a result of course, consumers won.'"

[DaveM]

Oh....it was an accident? Or perhaps all a dream? Hopefully that poor woman in Duluth can pay off the $400,000+ judgement she was slapped with using play money?

Warner appears to have begun to see the light, however. The best way to earn a profit in a free society is to let customers decide what they will and will not purchase. Bring force into the picture, and you will likely receive it in return.

[aabram]

This is becoming about as bad as not changing a lightbulb when one blows immediately it blows.... The poor consumer only has a certain amount of money at his/her disposal. To expect that consumer to pay more than he/she can afford is just plain ridiculous, and they're being downright greedy now. Lighten up

Hats off to Warner Bros for finally seeing the light :)

Annabel

[RedjackRyan]

I don't think they've seen the light at all, my take on the article, Bronfman still seems to believe that what the consumer wants is a DRM laden file... just more of them available. Still.. its a faint glimmer of light where none had previously existed.

[aabram]

Wel they need a better lightbulb then :D ;)

[dragonlady]

Well said annabel....

What she said, I agree!!!

-di

[janisian]

Gad. How is it that dumbshits continue to rule the music industry?!

[Bat]

Gad. How is it that dumbshits continue to rule the music industry?!

Don't stop there.

[Bill_L]

RedjackRyan's previous thread "Recording Music without the Music Industry" refers to a possible the solution - eliminate the recording industry. No sense in having someone in the loop that doesn't have to be there. With software that insures the musicians get paid when someone downloads their work off their website - the musicians get most of the money. As I understand it - now the recording companies get most of it while the musicians do most of the work. Could eliminate the surcharge on blank CD's.

Don't do any of the sharing the RIAA complains about and would like to see the money go to the musicians at probably a lower cost to the consumer than what I now pay.

Apparently don't need all the high tech studios anyhow - you can't tell by listening that FINB was recorded in Janis's living room. You might detect that they had more fun that way but not at the cost of quality.

[aabram]

Well said annabel....

What she said, I agree!!!

-di

Oooh.... DI!!!!! :p :) THANK you....

Annabel

[dragonlady]

Annabel,

Why try to say it again in different words when you so nicely summed it all up for me??? :D

-di

[aabram]

Annabel,

Why try to say it again in different words when you so nicely summed it all up for me??? :D

-di

:D I agree...I DO have my moments... :)

Annabel

[Oak Kitten]

This is from the website of the Chronicle for Higher Education:

Student Questions How Recording Industry Identifies File Sharers

In its campaign to stop the illegal sharing of music, the Recording Industry Association of America may want to reconsider with whom it associates. A student at Boston University, who was sued by the industry association for purportedly trading music files online in violation of copyright law, says the group’s procedure for singling out certain students is shady.

The group has been relying on MediaSentry to find copyright violators. The business scours peer-to-peer networks for the Internet-protocol numbers of students swapping music, downloads some songs, and takes a snapshot of the students’ music files. A lawyer for the student, who is identified only as John Doe, claimed in a court document filed Monday that the State of Massachusetts had issued a cease-and-desist letter against MediaSentry “for conducting private investigations of students without a private investigator license.”

The student’s lawyer, Raymond Sayeg, wrote that the court should consider having MediaSentry hand over a copy of the cease-and-desist letter before allowing its evidence to become part of the suit.

Meanwhile, the Electronic Frontier Foundation, a group that promotes civil liberties in cyberspace, has come to the defense of the student and 20 other students at Boston University whose names the Recording Industry Association of America is trying to learn.—-Andrea L. Foster

[Gandalf]

> I don't think they've seen the light at all
Me, either. They're just peddling some publicity.

[Gandalf]

I LOVED your previous siggie: "...Why vote for the lesser of two evils?" or something like that.

[RedjackRyan]

Thanks Gandalf,

I think it was Vote RedjackRyan in 2008, Why settle for a lesser evil?