CD shipments surge after lean years

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RIAA sales: In the past few years the RIAA has been complaining that sales are down because of p2p--BULL. My family of 7 used to buy 20 to 30 cd's a year until the RIAA started their strongarm and nazi regime tactics, because of this, we haven't bought one new cd. I will not give my hard earned money to a company that is willing to do the things that they have( ie, trying to take our rights away_ http://www.timesrepublican.com/columns/story/1014202004_colcol.asp all in the name of profit. They should have listened to the consumer of their product(like any intelligent company would) and worked with the P2P companies and they could have made more money than all their lawsuits combined and their sales of cd's wouldn't be suffering, as has been proven by baen.com and is illistrated in an article by Janis Ian http://www.janisian.com/article-internet_debacle.html . P2P hasn't hurt theirs sales one bit, it may have moved sales to the "lesser" artists but not hurt sales as a whole. what has hurt sales is their attitude and actions, which they now blame "the thieving public" which happens to be the consumers of their product, (Psst--calling your consumers thieves isn't smart-kinda stupid if you ask me). I haven't seen a company make so many WRONG decisions in my life, as for the lie that they are doing this for the artist- if it was for the artist, they should be giving the artist a DECENT income (this means NOT taking the expense of production from the artists royalties but from the GROSS income before royalties and more than 12% for royalties) and the freedom to go to another recording company if they feel they are being cheated, both of which (from all I've seen so far) isn't happening and probably won't. Come on ppl. from what I've seen the artist recieves less than 1% after expenses and many times a very large bill if the song doesn't sell or the RIAA decides that it isn't worth trying to sell( many of which still sits on the shelves of major recording companies, never heard by the public (Yes, many unkown song by many artist remain unheard because the RIAA doesn't think they can make enough of the almight dollar from them, or is it a way to control the artists as their contracts are) if they don't think they will make them money, why don't they use P2P put them out(no lost money, they aren't selling them anyway) and see what the public thinks of them and what the sales of the artist that made them does.; Posted by: lone stranger_z Posted on: 10/23/04 You are currently: a Guest | Members login | Terms of Use