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I agree with you. I think those in charge of the RIAA need to get a reality check. They're standing on a GOLD mine, and they're doing everything they can to burn it down. All they end up doing is pissing off people when they sue 7 year old Jimmy for downloading a Disney song. They need a serious update in their views.
The thing is that no matter what they do they won't stop the free trading of files on the internet. Ever. There are always ways for people to get past whatever the record companies or the government will throw at them.
I say the best way would be to create a person to person file sharing program that would cost a monthly or yearly fee, or a small fee for each file downloaded. The only problem here is maybe the lack of interest from users that already use free p2p software, which would screw over those that actually would pay to use the service. If the price was reasonable, and I was guaranteed X number of people hosting X number of files were going to be using the service, I would sign up I suppose.
It would have to be very good though, I wouldn't want it to be like WinMX where you spend days in a que. I dunno if it would end up being worth it, but the RIAA would get their "fair share".
They could also have a website hosting files, and charge per file, but that would have to be a HUGE website and they'd most certainly hike up the price to something ridiculous.
The RIAA expects people to pay $20 for some artists crappy CD with only one good song, all this does is make people turn to the internet to get that song for free. Look at the age group that the music industry has the most investment in these days - the teenagers. Teenagers are usually broke, and they expect them to pay all that money for one good song? They could easily collect if they could work with it.
The RIAA is, instead, fighting things like CD burners. CD burners do not promote illegal copies, and are perfectly legal because an owner has the right to make a copy of the CD he owns. Why not produce blank CDs? Why not sells things like the CD booklet for an album, which, after a person downloads a CD and burns it, they could have the material meant to go with it? Why not sell something like a 'burning kit' which would be basically everything you get in a regular CD, except the CD is blank and you can burn your mp3s to it? I dunno how reasonable my suggestions for how they can profit from things like that are, but at least I'm thinking of stuff.
The thing is that they're acting dumb and greedy when they should be smart and greedy.
Ashley
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