Comments on: File Sharing and Downloading Music - Fun and Free But Beware of The RIAA http://www.moneybluebook.com/file-sharing-and-downloading-music-fun-and-free-but-beware-of-the-riaa/ Personal Finance Beyond Credit Cards and Balance Transfers Mon, 13 Oct 2008 18:20:10 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.2 By: Raymond http://www.moneybluebook.com/file-sharing-and-downloading-music-fun-and-free-but-beware-of-the-riaa/#comment-2396 Raymond Thu, 24 Jan 2008 16:21:37 +0000 http://www.moneybluebook.com/file-sharing-and-downloading-music-fun-and-free-but-beware-of-the-riaa/#comment-2396 Well every bygone industry needs a scapegoat and college students are an easy target. The record producers and music publishers will survive. They just need to focus on innovation rather than continue to grasp at what remaining compact disc market they have left. Some type of affordable monthly subscriber fee for unlimited music may work. Well every bygone industry needs a scapegoat and college students are an easy target. The record producers and music publishers will survive. They just need to focus on innovation rather than continue to grasp at what remaining compact disc market they have left. Some type of affordable monthly subscriber fee for unlimited music may work.

]]> By: Lily http://www.moneybluebook.com/file-sharing-and-downloading-music-fun-and-free-but-beware-of-the-riaa/#comment-2390 Lily Thu, 24 Jan 2008 13:29:25 +0000 http://www.moneybluebook.com/file-sharing-and-downloading-music-fun-and-free-but-beware-of-the-riaa/#comment-2390 Did you hear? The MPAA (older brother of RIAA, in movie industry) just issued an <a href="http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080122/ap_en_ot/college_students_downloading;_ylt=Arxll9FareROCBSjCI8WIhOmG78C" rel="nofollow">apology for basically slandering/libeling college students</a>: <blockquote>In a 2005 study it commissioned, the Motion Picture Association of America claimed that 44 percent of the industry's domestic losses came from illegal downloading of movies by college students, who often have access to high-bandwidth networks on campus. But now the MPAA, which represents the U.S. motion picture industry, has told education groups a "human error" in that survey caused it to get the number wrong. It now blames college students for about 15 percent of revenue loss. Mark Luker, vice president of campus IT group Educause, says that more than 80 percent of college students live off campus and aren't necessarily using college networks. He says 3 percent is a more reasonable estimate for the percentage of revenue that might be at stake on campus networks. "The 44 percent figure was used to show that if college campuses could somehow solve this problem on this campus, then it would make a tremendous difference in the business of the motion picture industry," Luker said. The new figures prove "any solution on campus will have only a small impact on the industry itself."</blockquote> You think maybe RIAA should learn something from this? Also, it's hard for the public to consider the music industry a victim of piracy when it engages in predatory legal tactics that overcharge people for settling ridiculous claims. Did you hear? The MPAA (older brother of RIAA, in movie industry) just issued an apology for basically slandering/libeling college students:

In a 2005 study it commissioned, the Motion Picture Association of America claimed that 44 percent of the industry’s domestic losses came from illegal downloading of movies by college students, who often have access to high-bandwidth networks on campus.

But now the MPAA, which represents the U.S. motion picture industry, has told education groups a “human error” in that survey caused it to get the number wrong. It now blames college students for about 15 percent of revenue loss.

Mark Luker, vice president of campus IT group Educause, says that more than 80 percent of college students live off campus and aren’t necessarily using college networks. He says 3 percent is a more reasonable estimate for the percentage of revenue that might be at stake on campus networks.

“The 44 percent figure was used to show that if college campuses could somehow solve this problem on this campus, then it would make a tremendous difference in the business of the motion picture industry,” Luker said. The new figures prove “any solution on campus will have only a small impact on the industry itself.”

You think maybe RIAA should learn something from this? Also, it’s hard for the public to consider the music industry a victim of piracy when it engages in predatory legal tactics that overcharge people for settling ridiculous claims.

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