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Originally Posted by Kevin-SFBucks
its not baseless law rhetoric....you are saying adapt to the current situation which pretty much means give it away... many of us find that unacceptable. whos right and wrong time will tell but it doesnt mean you are right.
even with the back to album model, people still want their product protected and not given away.... why put the effort in otherwise?
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I fully agree that everyone who creates any kind of content should have the right to protect it however they want. Porn and music are both a little different yet the same. I think there are ways to get a product out there and into people's hands without having to give it away.
The problem I see with the RIAA suing is that there is already animosity among music fans who are sick of being overcharged for what turn out to be crappy albums. Also a lot of people try new music by stealing it. They maybe weren't willing to spend $15 on a CD from a band they have never heard before, but if they get if free, they try it out. Some small bands say file sharing actually helped them get notice. The more the RIAA sues the more people tend to see them as greedy and the more they rebel against them. It's a can't win situation for the music biz. Maybe if the industry started to show that they were focused on putting good albums out again they might be more willing to pay for it again. There are some people that still sell a lot of records and I think one reason for that is that people know those artists can be counted on to put out a good album, not just a couple of singles.
The parallels of the music biz and our biz are very similar. I think the potential problems are the same. Finding a solution is not going to be easy. Ultimately suing may not be the best answer to the problem. The RIAA has filed over 20,000 lawsuits and still they haven't made a dent in file sharing. how many content producers or affiliate programs out there have the money to file that many lawsuits? It is possible that this ends up being one of those situations where some stealing is inevitable, you just end up hoping more people pay then steal.