Posted by Jim Higgins on 10/12/07 15:22

On Wed, 10 Oct 2007 17:04:07 GMT, Brian Henderson
<BrianL.Henderson@NOSPAM.verizon.net> wrote:

>No, the solution is for the RIAA and MPAA to stop living in the past
>and get with the program. Both are using business plans that went out
>in the 70s and instead of pulling their heads out and accepting the
>net as a simple fact of life, they're still fighting tooth and nail
>like they can stop it. I certainly don't want free copying, but the
>RIAA and MPAA need to realize that their customers want things in a
>certain format at a certain price point and if they are not given it
>by the legitimate companies, they *WILL* go elsewhere for it.
>
>What the RIAA and MPAA are doing right now is just childish and is
>driving away an ever-increasing number of potential customers.

What is childish is the notion that the price point that will bring
the current pirates back into the music stores to buy rather than
steal is anything close to what record store owners and recording
companies need to stay in business. When it's all said and done the
projected return on their investment under the required pricing model
probably will dictate that they'll be better off in another business.

Granted the current prices are outrageous considering the current
business model consists of each new CD having a couple of good songs
and the rest mostly filler.

All in all I'd say the future looks somewhat bleak for the record
companies. Also the pirates had better be at least marginally more
intelligent than Jammie Thomas because it doesn't look like juries are
going to tolerate commercial anarchy.

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