The recording industry looks for more ways to lose money

[smiller]

 

And it wasn't easy, there was quite a battle and they had to really twist Apple's arm in order to get 'more profitable' pricing in place...

 

iTunes price hikes lead to lower unit sales, revenues

 

This is all no doubt somehow the fault of illegal downloaders.

 

 

[John Ranalletta]

And it wasn't easy, there was quite a battle and they had to really twist Apple's arm in order to get 'more profitable' pricing in place...

 

iTunes price hikes lead to lower unit sales, revenues

 

This is all no doubt somehow the fault of illegal downloaders.

 

Oh, yeah? Top this.

[smiller]

Oh... my... God...

 

Please tell me that video clip was intentional satire and not reality... it's like watching a train wreck in slow motion.

[russell_bynum]

And it wasn't easy, there was quite a battle and they had to really twist Apple's arm in order to get 'more profitable' pricing in place...

 

iTunes price hikes lead to lower unit sales, revenues

 

This is all no doubt somehow the fault of illegal downloaders.

 

Oh, yeah? Top this.

 

ROFLMAO!!!!!!

[smiller]

ROFLMAO!!!!!!

I know, it's almost surreal. 'The Onion' couldn't have done any better.

 

You wonder how these things happen. I can only guess it's the result of an environment where upper management makes a decision and no one down the chain feels empowered enough to say, 'uh sir, excuse me, but may I suggest that... you're out of your freakin' mind.' Companies reap the rewards of that kind of corporate culture every day.

[John Ranalletta]

Could one infer that it would be legal to record (copy) a tune from a cd by putting a microphone in front of a speaker as the tune plays?

[smiller]

I think the copying of short segments of copyrighted material for use exclusively in the schoolroom has traditionally been considered fair use, so that part would be difficult for them to object to. And apparently they're not... the silliness is that they're not trying to ban that use itself, only the specific act of electronically copying a DVD. The use (for that specific educational purpose) is OK, they're just picking nits over the physical copy method. This is because copying the DVD involves breaking the CSS encryption, and that act is technically illegal under the DMCA. The MPAA apparently wants to enforce this with absolute rigidity, even if it means the absurdities in policy displayed in the clip. And it's all even more absurd because anyone can download software that will make any amount of copies at will... they have absolutely no control over this, nor will they ever, regardless of what they get written into law. The logical thing to do would be to allow certain types of copying under legal circumstances (use in the schoolroom, end users making backup copies or placing the material on home media servers, etc.), but instead they are choosing an impossibly strict interpretation of the law that will (actually, already has) encourage uncontrolled and unrestricted copying on an enormous scale.

 

And from the looks of that clip they haven't learned a damn thing.

 

 

[11101110]

$43k in extra revenue (had they sold the same number of songs at .99) means they sold 143333 songs. Using the 34.5% drop in salse ment that before the price hike the sales should have been 192783 songs.

 

192783 x .99 = 190855.5

142222 x 1.29 = 184899.57

 

a difference of Drum roll please, $5955.93less

 

So they made 43k more on the songs they sold but sold less songs meaning that they lost 6k by not selling as many songs.

 

Why can't these guys stop shooting themselves in the foot? Ah they don't have feet any more so they no longer feel it

 

 

[11101110]

I think the copying of short segments of copyrighted material for use exclusively in the schoolroom has traditionally been considered fair use, so that part would be difficult for them to object to. And apparently they're not... the silliness is that they're not trying to ban that use itself, only the specific act of electronically copying a DVD. The use (for that specific educational purpose) is OK, they're just picking nits over the physical copy method. This is because copying the DVD involves breaking the CSS encryption, and that act is technically illegal under the DMCA. The MPAA apparently wants to enforce this with absolute rigidity, even if it means the absurdities in policy displayed in the clip. And it's all even more absurd because anyone can download software that will make any amount of copies at will... they have absolutely no control over this, nor will they ever, regardless of what they get written into law. The logical thing to do would be to allow certain types of copying under legal circumstances (use in the schoolroom, end users making backup copies or placing the material on home media servers, etc.), but instead they are choosing an impossibly strict interpretation of the law that will (actually, already has) encourage uncontrolled and unrestricted copying on an enormous scale.

 

And from the looks of that clip they haven't learned a damn thing.

 

 

We don't pay teachers enough as it is. Now they want them to waste their time borrowing/renting/buying a camera and a flatscreen to do a real time copy. Appearently they wern't worried about the audio copyrights. If you notice the audio into the camera came directly form the dvd player. Are these people on crack?