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Subject: Re: Is Flip an RIAA Sockpuppet ???
Date: 21 Jul 2003 16:51:04 -0700
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In article <vhn2idhac91n25@corp.supernews.com>, "IalsoBUYmusic,Morons" says...
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>DUDE !!!!!!!!
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>"Roger" <spdriver@comcast.net> wrote in message
>news:0uKdnRvGa7_xGYaiXTWJjg@comcast.com...
>> Actually it turns out that Flip may not be an "RIAA Sockpuppet" after all.
>> Look at his e-mail addy, and then check-out the website where he gets his
>> e-mail.
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>> URL: www.mac.com
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>> Can you say Apple Macintosh?
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>> That should make you think of Apple iMusic.......
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>> Which means he is a vested-interest "sockpuppet", for sure!
>>
>> Of course it should not be too hard to understand that the RIAA Agenda
>> will
>> be in the best interest of Apple iMusic, EH!
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>> The IP Robber Barons, and their employees, all want you to either buy the
>> CDs or else download "legal" MP3s files (for only $1.95 each!) for your
>> personal use. But you must not SHARE them...... or the RIAA will get you.
>>
>> HINT: Multiply the number of tracks burned on an audio CD by $1.95. Are
>> they cutting you any slack, or are you still going to be paying $25+ for
>the
>> equivalent content of an audio CD? Plus, you will then have to use your
>> computer to record the MP3s you have bought onto a CD, which you will also
>> have to pay for!
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>> Personally, I think the correct Free Market price for a downloadable MP3
>> file should be 50 cents. That would, in turn, translate to about a $6.00
>> price for an audio CD purchased at a local music shop.
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>> I realize that the prices I quoted is only an honest business mark-up, and
>> it certainly is not the 500% to 2000% mark-up as demanded by the
>hog-greedy
>> IP Robber Barons, but it is all I intend to pay!
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>> Memo for Flip: I get my CDs for $5.00 (and DVDs for $7.50) at the local
>> USED media stores in my town, and will continue to do so until the IP
>Robber
>> Baron mentality, and their hog-greedy actions, are finally stopped. My
>> purchases this year so far amount to 50 DVDs & 75 CDs, with a direct loss
>to
>> their producers of around 3 thousand dollars (since I no longer buy New
>> items).
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>> This is, of course, a REAL LOSS .... as opposed to your make-believe loss
>> which you claim occurs when someone shares a MP3 file.
>>
>> Pleasant dreams.....
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>> "flip" <flippo@mac.com> wrote in message
>> news:flippo-731919.06091902072003@news.central.cox.net...
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>> > > As for you Flip, are you being paid by the word or post???
>> >
>> > I'm not being paid anything, nor do I have any financial interest in any
>> > entertainment company.
>> >
>> > My company, however, is based on intellectual property (trade secrets
>> > and patents). This 'we can steal whatever we like because the owner
>> > wants too much money' mentality threatens the entire free market system.
Free Market System threatened by petty thiefs? C'mon!!! My water company wants
to raise rates 30%. They are going to get it. My gas company raised rates 30%
two and a half years ago. Now thet require another 30% raise. My electric
company also is going to raise their rates. USA's prescription drug pricess are
out of control. I can't afford a hockey game anymore. AND CD PRICES ARE TOO
HIGH!!
The corporate end of the free market system is destroying the system. The
demand a high price, and if they can't get it, they run to our government. Is
this the FREE MARKET we have grown to love? I'm telling you, I'm willing to pay
a price for my music. Like the gentleman above mentioned, I am buying more and
more used media. I really don't particularly care for the commercial stuff
currently on the air anyway. Oh and did the free market set the outlandish
prices on a LOSSY MP3 file? You know...the corporate ol' skool mindset needs to
change. The consumer is much more educated now. The consumer has less
discretionary income also.
Why is it other industries: PC, Electronics etc have restructured their prices
in accordance to free market, but the music industry proceeds to treat the
consumer like crap?
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