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Forums - General - RIAA vs. P2P. Lawyers win.

Killiana1a on 14 July 2010
Galaki said:

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If anything, the labels are worse than people p2p.

It is an outdated business model just like the movie industry. Great information.

Wow, I would have bet the singer and lead guitarist got the lion share. The equal distribution is quite amazing if it can be shown to hold up among all bands including the classic bands such as Aerosmith, AC/DC, Bon Jovi and the like.

The graph could be misleading but in certain genres such as Rap, the producer is often times a higher up or owner of the record label so their 3% may be in addition to the 63%.



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Armads on 14 July 2010
Killiana1a said:
WilliamWatts said:
Killiana1a said:

I like how you use of the term "lawsuit victims." This leads me to question, do you view murderers as victims of their upbringing, thus sympathizing with them over their dead victims? Was Mumia Abu Jamal the victim when he shot and killed Daniel Faulkner during a routine traffic stop?

As for lawyers, they win financially no matter the outcome of the case.


I like your strange irrelevant statement. It makes me wonder if you view Pol Pot as some misdirected chef instead of the mass murderer he actually was.

The relevance is in sympathizing with the perpetrators rather than the victims who in this case are the individual musicians and their record labels.

A term such as "lawsuit victim" implies the reverse, which in my opinion is false.

Musicians have historically made most of their money through their live shows and not through album sales.  As a graph already shows record companies give the bands practically nothing for their work.  Many musicians (including myself) are not against music pirating because in reality it doesn't hurt us the musicians it hurts the manipulative and greedy record corporations.



Galaki on 14 July 2010
Armads said:

Musicians have historically made most of their money through their live shows and not through album sales.  As a graph already shows record companies give the bands practically nothing for their work.  Many musicians (including myself) are not against music pirating because in reality it doesn't hurt us the musicians it hurts the manipulative and greedy record corporations.

 

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No wonder RIAA boss Mitch ‘The Don’ Bainwol is smiling in the pic on the right.

According to IRS figures, in 2007 he was paid $1,485,000 for his services. But by 2008, the amount had rocketed — to $2,032,072, to be exact.

 

It is now 2010, I gonna make a wild guess that he will make 3M this year.



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Pristine20 on 14 July 2010
Galaki said:
Armads said:

Musicians have historically made most of their money through their live shows and not through album sales.  As a graph already shows record companies give the bands practically nothing for their work.  Many musicians (including myself) are not against music pirating because in reality it doesn't hurt us the musicians it hurts the manipulative and greedy record corporations.

lmao, he makes money for losing the company money? wow. Guess it's Govt work

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No wonder RIAA boss Mitch ‘The Don’ Bainwol is smiling in the pic on the right.

According to IRS figures, in 2007 he was paid $1,485,000 for his services. But by 2008, the amount had rocketed — to $2,032,072, to be exact.

 

It is now 2010, I gonna make a wild guess that he will make 3M this year.





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Mr Khan on 14 July 2010

lol. I wonder how that $16 million slates against actual piracy losses (if we took the fallacious economic assumption of piracy = lost sales)



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