RIAA says that they are losing 1 milion dollars per day

http://www.pcworld.com/news/article/...082702X,00.asp

Who really believes that they are losing any money from Napster like sites. This group wants to control everything. They shutdown internet radio and Napster. Even without Napster P2P is still here. The RIAA just won't give up.

quite a few reports lately on /. have been sayin the opposite, mp3 sharing sometimes promotes music and people going to buy music;

though i haven't bought a CD in years.. but even without mp3 sharing i probably still wouldn't of as ive spent most of the last few years in debt to parents anyway

also the reports blame the music industry anyway, like alot of the econmy they are in decline, also the DVD and gaming industry are growing

well
as many of you have heard

this is like the time when radio stations starts to air in the 30's
people didnt stop buying records

but of course this is a different scenerio but in general, there is always a negative affect when technology is evolving into another state
obviously, we cant stop new technologies from being invented but we can help the music industry to take on a less suffering damage and help them by buying a few albums

not that i would
LOL

so my say is KEEP ON LEACHING!!

LOL

I still buy as many records regarless of MP3's. I don't buy one hit wonder CD's ever and now I can hear the music anyway. It serves the Music Industry right to get bit in the ass by this. CD's are way cheaper to duplicate but cost more. Yes you still have the cost for recording equipment but they had that with tape. They just have to put it on a cheaper medium now but they charge more. That's bullshit.

Well my stance is I know they loose allot of money from download sites, hell I used to buy probably 20-40 cd's a month and have one hell of a collection, but since p2p and the old napster I have not purcased a single one in probably 3-4 years, so I do understand why they are complaining. The only thing that is happening in real life is the rich bastards are not making the money they think they should and now cannot afford to buy that extra 20th house in france or some crap like that. So in short I support p2p

[Omega]

Idunno, I think they probably are losing money, but I don't think they should try to abolish P2P. Before Napster and CD Burning I would buy CDs through BMG Music Service. I would get like, 10 free CDs every time I referred someone, so I just kept doing that, and ended up with about 50 CDs for the price of 1. I was never a huge fan of going to a store and paying $15 for a CD. I definately wouldn't have nearly as robust of a music collection if MP3s and P2P (or a similar thing) didn't exist. I would have maybe bought 5 CDs in the past couple years. On the other hand I do also make $20 by burning 18 Phish CDs for a friend who quite possibly would have spent $80 on them retail...or however much it'd cost. [Legal disclaimer: The previous sentence is completely false, and was used for demonstrative purposes only. I have not profited in any way from pirating music.] On that note, I also haven't downloaded over 50 movies, with the following titles:

Panic Room
Office Space
Oh Brother, Where art Thou?
Fight Club
The Virgin Suicides
Hackers 2
Coyote Ugly
Black Hawk Down
Vanilla Sky
Tomb Raider
Sneakers
War Games
Pi
Swordfish
Hackers
Road Trip
Mr. Deeds
Minority Report
The Bourne Identity
The Usual Suspects
Antitrust
American Pie 2
Collateral Damage
Ocean's 11
Snatch
Men in Black
Starship Troopers
K-PAX
Austin Powers: Goldmember
Wild Things
Monty Python: The Life of Brian
The Sixth Sense
Pulp Fiction
Braveheart
South Park - Bigger, Longer, and Uncut
Memento
Enemy at the Gates
Evolution
Fight Club
The Cell
Ferris Bueller's Day Off
Saving Private Ryan
National Lampoon's Van Wilder
Mallrats


Three Kings
Men in Black 2
Mission Impossible 2
Spider Man
12 Monkeys
Terminator 2
Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon

So please don't private message me if you'd like to download them from me, because I don't have the stored separately on CD.[/i]

*LOL* To funny! I have also not downloaded over 160gb worth of movies, nor have I downloaded over 5 gb worth of music.