Piracy figures used to increase profitability for record labels

They are absolute morons..

WTF these guys are a**holes i cant believe they make a big fuss about piracy but then they turn around and use it to choose the next hit single for an artist then they will sue you for downloading songs this may be the smartest thing ive ever heard

Maybe its to get around the "It takes money to make money" rule.

If they sue others and scare them into paying that way the RIAA/MPAA doesn't have to pay for marketing to find out what type of song/movie should be released next as their "I hope this catches well" track or movie.

Peace

It seems as if the RIAA is taking a "if you can't beat 'em..... Join 'EM" approach Now if they can just get out of the dark ages thinking that suing people is going to help their cause.....

Of course they're just hypocritical, cynical, spiteful, short-sighted ba*tards being totally fake to the truth,
sharing generates sales that would otherwise never be made.

(personally I think much of this 'piracy noise' is just a con for dopey shareholders & politicians/legislators they think believe their 'otherwise we would have made trillions!' cr@p)

The whole point here is - or ought to be - wrapped up in the parts sharing can't give you, the 'added value' that comes with the full retail package......but of course that implies they actually have to shift their bloated idle a$$es and be bothered about and make the effort to release an attractive value product in the 1st place.

There are numerous examples in my own collection where I have d/l'ed the ripped version of something and then bought the retail version on the back of that to get full Dolby Digital/DTS 5.1 audio etc etc.

I know I am far from alone in this.

absofuckinglutely brilliant thinking :D

Originally posted by hughjars:

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There are numerous examples in my own collection where I have d/l'ed the ripped version of something and then bought the retail version on the back of that to get full Dolby Digital/DTS 5.1 audio etc etc.

I know I am far from alone in this.

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Originally posted by hughjars:

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There are numerous examples in my own collection where I have d/l'ed the ripped version of something and then bought the retail version on the back of that to get full Dolby Digital/DTS 5.1 audio etc etc.

I know I am far from alone in this.

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It seems quite logical to me. If a song is poplular on P2P, it's probably going to be popular in general. Since they are monitoring P2P traffic anyway, why not maximize use of the data?

Sounds logical to do.

If nobody wants it for FREE, then why would they want to pay for it !

It would be nice if "THEY" at least stopped with the BS. If the time ever comes that "THEY" decide to tell the truth about something and come clean...nobody will believe them. They cried "wolf" too many times.

While random people are being sued for shock value, record label’s are spying on the same p2p streams to figure out which bubble gum pop single to release next. The mpaa is going to make my head explode!!!

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I think this is great news. This is exactly what media companies should do. They will never stop piracy, but if they are able to use it to their advantage, everyone wins.


~Maitland

Just three words:

NEW WORLD ORDER

'nuff said. Asshole RIAA, MPAA and all other hypocrappers.

does anybody actucally think "they" want any of this to stop? at this point the industry can't survive without it. they don't want you stop dui or speeding in your car, it's all profit to them, they don't care if your a freaking turnip, their gonna get their blood somehow. if they have to break a couple eggs to make an omlet so be it. it's all about their bottom line, it's all a free advertisement and profit. they don't want you to think they look at it that way but the reality is they actually do. here's a for instance, right now I'm watching Van Halen tour rehearsals on the web. do you actually think they would allow that to leak if they didn't want it to? they're trying to create a buzz, good or bad in this case, vip tix are $1000 and $500 and they don't even tell you what seat your getting. onsale to public is $125, they gotta move those seats, so they have crate a motivation to get the working class to spend that kinda money. those are the dollars they're looking for. the fat cats are few and far between, the working class make up the majority no matter what they would have you believe.

This is the way they should see technology as a plus not as a minus due to the fact that they can gage popularity is a plus for them at a minimum cost.