, SecurityFocus 2003-04-30
To the Recording Industry Association of America, sending threatening messages to online music swappers is a potentially effective way to educate the public that trading copyrighted material is wrong. But to security geeks in the file trading community, the technique is just another volley in the electronic war with peer-to-peer opponents... and a rather trivial one at that.
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And the end of the story ?
2003-05-02
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RIAA messaging gambit faces countermeasures
2003-05-02
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The CD costs a lot less to produce than a tape, and it's sold twice the price. Some could argue that in 15 years, there as been inflation, but I don't think the cumulative inflation could have doubled the price of the old audio tape.
You can see the same thing with DVDs. They are sold twice the price of the VHS tape, yet they cost not even 1/10th of it. Some argue that there is extra contents on the DVD, but usually, you get the trailer and the director's audio comments and that's about it.
We are seeing the same thing with DVDs has with the CDs; the industry is slowing changing the mindset of people that it is normal to pay twice the old price for a movie.
Stronger copyright laws are not the answer. There is strong copyright laws and better enforcement of these laws in Europe. However, the effect is that the industry sells their contents twice the price than in America.
This is also why they invented a system for "region coding" DVDs. You cannot buy a DVD in New York and play it in Paris (with a regular branded DVD player).
As for my habits, I support my local artists, and so I buy theirs CDs and DVDs. However, I won't pay another buck to the multimillionnaires in Hollywood and elsewere... I download MP3 for these, and I rent DVDs and copy them with my DVD burner (which I had bought for data archiving anyway).
As the cost for bandwith and the cost of CD and DVD discs and burners lowers, the piracy will rise, because the RIAA and MPAA and their respective members take us for fools.
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