I wouldn’t pirate stuff if..
20 July 2007 by Mushroom Queen
Okay, let’s face it. Most of the people who are probably reading this blog indulge in some type of piracy. I won’t confirm or deny whether or not I do. Last night, I was thinking that maybe if there were a compelling reason to download music legally, people would do it. There are a few ideas out there about how the RIAA and MPAA should go about selling music:
- Charge 5 cents a song. This seems almost absurd at first, but think about how many people would choose to buy a song for 5 cents at CD quality rather than trying their luck at Limewire and mistakingly downloading three minutes of silence. According to this theory, record labels would make plenty of money on the fact that people would buy large amounts of music rather than stealing.
- Charge a flat rate per month. I would possibly do this if it meant that I got an unlimited number of music downloads and if the monthly rate was affordable.
- Release films on DVD on the day of their cinema debut. Seriously, no one wants to wait 3-4 months to purchase a film on DVD.
- Product placement in films to cheapen the cost of DVDs or film tickets. This is a novel idea, but I don’t think I want to see a Pepsi can appear on the set every 5 minutes.
I’m sure there are more/better ideas out there as well. The answer, however, isn’t to encourage people to steal music by inflating CD prices, putting internet radio out of business, and go after people who download.
And I put up a review of a good classic novel.
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July 20th, 2007 at 6:06 am
Music pirater.
Meh, not like I care whether Music is stolen, although the ideas do seem better for the music industry if they are looking to make a profit. I dunno, they know it’s going on and as far as I see they are hardly doing anything on the mass about it. The DVD release on the day seems a bit OTT for me, I’d say at least 2 weeks, otherwise the cinemas can hardly make any money, why would I bother to go to a cinema when I can buy it on DVD see it whenever I want over and over again.
Anywho, nice ideas.
July 20th, 2007 at 7:20 am
I stel shit frm da big buzinesses
July 20th, 2007 at 7:22 am
Creepy, stop pretending to be a female.
July 20th, 2007 at 7:24 am
Who is dis crepy felow? he sounds kool n hot
July 20th, 2007 at 7:26 am
I can bantard you. This is my blog.
July 20th, 2007 at 7:28 am
wub me to much to do that.
July 20th, 2007 at 7:30 am
Lmfao at that.
July 20th, 2007 at 7:55 am
I agree with you about ‘Brave New World’ It’s still a very good book, but I prefer 1984.
July 20th, 2007 at 10:31 am
“encourage people to steal music by inflating CD prices”
I say let irony do it’s job.
July 20th, 2007 at 1:45 pm
Yeh. Flat rate would win me over.
July 20th, 2007 at 5:51 pm
How about a super powered, half price internet cinema? £3.50 for one view, high quality film. And you don’t need to go outside.
Although that’d make it so much easier to steal. Ahaha.
July 24th, 2007 at 2:58 pm
If the music industry had free entry and exit…like it should instead of and oligopoly like it does this would not be a problem.