Hymne Québécois:
Gens du pays, c'est votre tour
De vous laisser parler d'amour.
-Gilles Vigneault
RIAA and CRIAA are the same thing with the same goal: make cash in the end, even if they aren't doing it the right way. They remind me of 50% of Americans (Bush supporters): the world is not enough!
FACTS:
-cd sold are at the same level as the napster era
-the artists still do a ridiculous % of the sale
-a few artists make 50% of the cd sales
-home recording of a cd is now affordable to people (with the evolution of computers and software)
-producing cd with case and cover is available to anybody
-gathering a supporter base can be done for much less with internet and mouth to mouth (shows too!)
YET:
-we pay taxes for every media (cd-r, harddisks, MP3 player) that go to the record companies!!!
-they are sueing people
-they spread FUD to the population (try to tell someone with little P2P knowledge you are not affecting the artist by dling some of his files -that if you like, you might buy his cds-)
-without P2P I would not have bought many CDs of artists that I begin to love after dling their mp3s
-They don't understand the utility of P2P as a marketing tool (it's easy to do stats and trends of popularity by looking at what P2Pers love and download).
-P2P is great to cut bandwidth expenses as a company
olala, CRIAA and RIAA are shameful mongols.