Posted by Morton Davis on 01/19/49 11:27

"D.E." <ask4myemail> wrote in message
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> "Morton Davis" <antikerry@home.com> schreef in bericht
> news:buxYe.356575$x96.162105@attbi_s72...
> >I don't buy music. Never have. Never will. I have no desire to have
stacks
> > of shit music piled up in records, tapes or CDs. I didn't download
music.
> > I
> > can't stand the pure crappola you produce. I listen to music on the
radio
> > in
> > my car, most;y classical on PBS or if they have someone on Letterman,
but
> > mostly I turn Letterman off when your "artists" appear because mostly
what
> > they "play" is pure shit.
>
> Well there is some nice music around.
>
> > I'm on a fixed income. For decades I went to the movies infrequently and
> > was
> > mostly unimpressed with what I saw. Gas costs a lot now. So does that
> > garbage the theatres sell as popcorn. A teaspoonful of popcorn kernels
and
> > 4
> > ozs. of dring are now more than the ticket price.
>
> Yep i hate that too. extortion prices.
> Actually if you go in the morning on sunday you get in haldf price.
> So then the popcorn and the pop cost even more than the ticket.
> (Okay religious types I know I should go to church but they don`t show
that
> movie there ;o) )
>
> > P2P gaves folk like me an
> > edge. We could preview films to see if they're really worth seeing on
the
> > big screen.
>
> Yep, and I was so glad that I downloaded soem of the movies
> and didn`t spend all that money on that crap, smoe movies i stopped
halfway.
>
> > And those were few and far between. Even fewr are ANYTHING I'd
> > buy a DVD of. Y'all say "Buy the DVD and own it forever" like that's
> > SOMETHING. Well, it isn't. I'm not going to play that $25 movie over and
> > over and over and you're so-called "extra footage" and "Boxed Sets"?
>
> Hehehhe, and besides that, you could probably see the movie on TV so many
> channels
> that you probably could see the same movie everyday if you zap enough ;o)
>
> > What
> > you've done is to put a crappy version of the movie into the theaters
and
> > saved the BEST version for the DVD.
>
> Oh I know why, time is money, the theatre don`t like long movies.
>
> > The movie we PAY to see at the theater
> > has become NOTHING but a commercial for the DVD that will have the
answer
> > to
> > the scenes that werere truncated in the movie we PAID to see. The
> > incopmplete scenes that made no damn sense/
>
> Yep I am for a refund when you hand in your theatre ticket when you buy
> the DVD, that would be a fair thing to do, you have already paid for the
> movie once
> so be fair and refund some.
>
> > Here's the thing, I don't buy DVDs at stores. I buy USED DVDs from
people
> > who are tired of them. Yard sales and flea markets are full of them. But
> > MOST of them, I can wait until they're on cable TV asnd THEN, if I want,
I
> > might tape them.
>
> The thing I did all my life.
>
> > In effect, you've done yourselves no good whatsoever, RIAA and MPAA.
> > You're
> > not going to be experiencing any big upsurge in business. The money
isn't
> > going to come rolling in because of what you did. Most people I know
will
> > be
> > buying CDs LESS and going to the movies LESS and buying DVDs retail
LESS.
>
> Oh music you can still get from streaming radio broadcasts everywhere.
> There are even programs that search the stations schedule, and find what
you
> want
> (if you are lucky) ;o)
>
> > If you want more money. STOP PRODUCING SHIT and try producing QUALITY
> > again.
>
> Threy are forgetting one thing, they complain that they make less money.
> DUH, ofcourse, people spend moeny on games now, on mobile phones
> so they have less to spend on, guess what,. your cd`s/dvd`s.
> get over it, innovate, get creative.
>
We have, but they have not. BTW: When HDTV hits, the plan is not to allow
you to tape recored ANYTHING. Miis that show? TOUGH. Miss that ball game?
TOUGH.

We can thank Se. John McCain and Bill Clinton for this mess.

> > FUCK YOU. FUCK YOU very much.
>
>

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