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Topic: This makes me very sad.
Mr. Wilams
Pancake
posted 06-21-2002 05:17:43 PM
It's official. The RIAA has shown that they don't give a shit about anything other than their money once again.
http://www.copyright.gov/carp/webcasting_rates_final.html
http://www.somafm.com/
Lady Delirium
Drysart loves me!
posted 06-21-2002 05:34:53 PM

yes, that is maradon spining around in a chair ^_ ____ _ ^
Bloodsage
Heart Attack
posted 06-21-2002 05:38:44 PM
Damn those business people! In business just to make a profit?!

How rude!

To reign is worth ambition, though in Hell:
Better to reign in Hell than serve in Heaven.

--Satan, quoted by John Milton

Mr. Wilams
Pancake
posted 06-21-2002 05:40:21 PM
I dunno.

It just seems kinda stupid to me.

I see radio as the commercials of the music industry, and now it's like the RIAA turn around and charge the people for giving them airplay and giving their artists popularity.

I DUNNO. Maybe it's just me.

Blindy
Roll for initiative, Monkey Boy!
posted 06-21-2002 05:44:37 PM
quote:
Verily, Goodbye, Bloodsage doth proclaim:
Damn those business people! In business just to make a profit ass rape their customers?!

How rude!


On a plane ride, the more it shakes,
The more I have to let go.
Comrade Snoota
Communist
Da, Tovarisch!
posted 06-21-2002 05:47:11 PM
This reminds me of the old, "Verant just wants our money!" thing from Whineplay. =\
You smell that? Do you smell that? ...Napalm, son. Nothing else in the world smells like that. I love the smell of napalm in the morning. You know, one time we had a hill bombed for twelve hours. When it was all over I walked up. We didn't find one of 'em, not one stinkin' dink body. The smell, you know that gasoline smell, the whole hill. Smelled like... victory.
Mr. Wilams
Pancake
posted 06-21-2002 05:47:51 PM
quote:
Lady Snoota got all f'ed up on Angel Dust and wrote:
This reminds me of the old, "Verant just wants our money!" thing from Whineplay. =\

Except this is completely different.

Comrade Snoota
Communist
Da, Tovarisch!
posted 06-21-2002 05:50:09 PM
I just get reminded of that when ever someone whines about a company trying to make money.
You smell that? Do you smell that? ...Napalm, son. Nothing else in the world smells like that. I love the smell of napalm in the morning. You know, one time we had a hill bombed for twelve hours. When it was all over I walked up. We didn't find one of 'em, not one stinkin' dink body. The smell, you know that gasoline smell, the whole hill. Smelled like... victory.
Mr. Wilams
Pancake
posted 06-21-2002 05:51:46 PM
I'm not whining about a company trying to make money.

I'm whining about a company killing radio because they don't think they're making enough.

Mattimeo
Was once a member
posted 06-21-2002 06:30:34 PM
They're trying to get those sales to go down some more I see
Maradon!
posted 06-21-2002 06:41:29 PM
The RIAA is already set on self-destruct. It's only a matter of time.
Mattimeo
Was once a member
posted 06-21-2002 06:48:48 PM
And how!
Skaw
posted 06-21-2002 06:50:11 PM
Soon they're going to make people pay royalties for loaning out their players and discs to friends when bored on the road/in school/etc.

[ 06-21-2002: Message edited by: Skaw ]

Mod
Pancake
posted 06-21-2002 07:25:52 PM
Although they are perfectly within their rights to do so, I think they're pretty much shooting themselves in the foot. Pushing an outdated way of distribution such as CD-albums at the current price as the sole way of obtaining music won't save their sales figures in the long run.

If everyone is so unhappy about RIAA and their methods.....just stop doing business with them. Music is not bread or water, you can live perfectly fine without it. Enough people get fed up with their business practices and cease buying their products? They'll be forced to either adapt or perish as a business.

But seeing as people are still buying...they must be doing something right, no?

Life... is like a box of chocolates. A cheap, thoughtless, perfunctory gift that nobody ever asks for. Unreturnable, because all you get back is another box of chocolates. You're stuck with this undefinable whipped-mint crap that you mindlessly wolf down when there's nothing else left to eat. Sure, once in a while, there's a peanut butter cup, or an English toffee. But they're gone too fast, the taste is fleeting. So you end up with nothing but broken bits, filled with hardened jelly and teeth-crunching nuts, and if you're desperate enough to eat those, all you've got left is a... is an empty box... filled with useless, brown paper wrappers.
Mattimeo
Was once a member
posted 06-21-2002 07:28:36 PM
I still find it infinatly funny that they went nuts when sales went down for the first time ever. Do they really not understand it's their fault? (I bought CDs up untill the napster thing happened)
Anonymous
Pancake
posted 06-21-2002 07:28:40 PM
In other words, hit them where it hurts...their wallets.
<---Transformers Dun Dun Dun!
Il Buono
You see, in this world there's two kinds of people, my friend.
posted 06-21-2002 07:30:53 PM
I just listen to the radio. :\

Nothing out right now is worth buying anyways.

"Those with loaded guns, and those who dig. You dig."
Mr. Wilams
Pancake
posted 06-21-2002 07:32:59 PM
quote:
Modrakien got all f'ed up on Angel Dust and wrote:
But seeing as people are still buying...they must be doing something right, no?

Nobody's going to be buying if they have no idea what to buy.

And to some of us, music might as well be bread or water. If I, as a consumer, have no legal ways to discover new music, how am I as a consumer able to actually purchase it?

Vorbis
Vend-A-Goat
posted 06-21-2002 07:41:51 PM
Which is why I love the underground. Direct support of the bands - no suits (unless the band members are wearing suits...) and a new set of bands every day.

Stop buying CDs and start going to concerts - you will give more help to the artists and no help to the RIAA.

Mr. Wilams
Pancake
posted 06-21-2002 07:42:55 PM
quote:
Vorbis of Pie had this to say about Cuba:
Which is why I love the underground. Direct support of the bands - no suits (unless the band members are wearing suits...) and a new set of bands every day.

Stop buying CDs and start going to concerts - you will give more help to the artists and no help to the RIAA.


You have no idea how much I'd like to and how soon I would, if only I didn't live in Maine.

OtakuPenguin
Peels like a tangerine, but is juicy like an orange.
posted 06-21-2002 08:42:26 PM
This is why Omaha rocks, every band seems to come, GREAT local selection too.
..:: This Is The Sound Of Settling ::..
Comrade Snoota
Communist
Da, Tovarisch!
posted 06-21-2002 08:42:32 PM
quote:
Mr. Wilams wrote this stupid crap:
You have no idea how much I'd like to and how soon I would, if only I didn't live in Maine.

Trade you Maine for Vegas.

You smell that? Do you smell that? ...Napalm, son. Nothing else in the world smells like that. I love the smell of napalm in the morning. You know, one time we had a hill bombed for twelve hours. When it was all over I walked up. We didn't find one of 'em, not one stinkin' dink body. The smell, you know that gasoline smell, the whole hill. Smelled like... victory.
Mr. Wilams
Pancake
posted 06-21-2002 08:43:29 PM
quote:
Lady Snoota attempted to be funny by writing:
Trade you Maine for Vegas.

You got a deal.

Comrade Snoota
Communist
Da, Tovarisch!
posted 06-21-2002 08:57:02 PM
Think your parents will notice you grew a few inches, gained a few pounds, and aged a few years over night?

I work different shifts than my parents so they probably wouldn't notice I shrunk and grew a funky Whitefro.

You smell that? Do you smell that? ...Napalm, son. Nothing else in the world smells like that. I love the smell of napalm in the morning. You know, one time we had a hill bombed for twelve hours. When it was all over I walked up. We didn't find one of 'em, not one stinkin' dink body. The smell, you know that gasoline smell, the whole hill. Smelled like... victory.
Mr. Wilams
Pancake
posted 06-21-2002 09:01:33 PM
My parents are pretty observant.

Straighten your finger out a bit, grow some fucking hair and make sure it stays curled and you're golden.

Waisztarroz
I love democracy
posted 06-21-2002 09:28:06 PM
I wonder how they plan to run this charge on things like FFRadio where some/most songs don't belong to a soundtrack.

Where's the money go? Hmm...I wonder...

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Trent
Smurfberry Moneyshot
posted 06-21-2002 09:32:44 PM
So, I better DL what I want before Sept then huh?
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