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October 23, 2007
Being an Asshole Makes Me Want Your Product More!
Between all the flurry lately over Comcast throtteling service and now hearing on Yahoo News about yet another crack down by international police on a bit torrent server (this is just a few days after someone spooked torrentspy.com, too), I've got something stuck in my craw.
I'm all for artists getting paid for their music. I would want to get paid if it were me. But as far as it goes with the record companies being such whiney bullies over it not working like it did in the hey day of rock, they need to really try to adjust. People have gotten used to getting their music for free one way or another since I was old enough to have musical tastes of my own, and in industry terms that's a pretty long time. It has it's pros and cons, but honestly, the meaner the Record Industry is the less fuzzy and happy and Sandra Dee I feel about buying CDs from them. It was bad enough that most of my money was going to line the pockets of executives instead of the artists or producers, but now I'm supposed to buy a CD and skip away knowing that money is spent on sueing people? No thanks. I want to buy CDs, but I don't want to support the record industry spending money on trying to sue every one hundredth drop of water coming out of a leaky dam instead of trying to move into the digital age in a legitimate way.
| By Spike | 11:09 AM
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Well said. I missed the news of what's going on with Comcast, but you make a good point about the record industry. I was impressed with what Radiohead did last week and I made sure to give them a decent amount of money as a thanks.
Posted by: Chris in Oxford at October 24, 2007 11:20 AM
It all comes down to that old "the personal is political" business that people seem to have forgotten about since civil rights movement and womens rights movement. I've been laughed at a lot for trying to vote with how I shop, and I just keep finding more reasons for how true it is that you can do that.
Posted by: Spike at October 24, 2007 01:09 PM