You know what I've noticed lately? The recording industry keeps saying that it's loosing tons and tons of money SOLEY because of file sharing applications. As we all know, with more and more people getting broadband connections, the number of movies being traded on the internet is also increasing. Here's the funny part, the movie industry is booming! Big blockbuster movies today are raking in more and more cash because they are quality and people want to see them in the theaters. Clearly, the music industry isn't loosing money only because of file sharing... I say it's partly because of their shitty music! I went from buying two albums a month to almost no albums in an entire year. Why? Because the music today sucks! I hate the vast majority of the shit they're coming up with these days. I really believe that the RIAA is too busy pointing their fat ass fingers at KaZaA to even realize the real reason they're losing all their money. And this crack down on music swaping is complete bullshit. All they will successfuly do is alienate their customers. Yesterday I didn't buy any new albums because they all suck, today I refuse to even go near a record store because those greedy fat fucks are trying to steal my wallet. According to
CNN, when you buy a record the artist is only getting an average of 12% of that purchase. Where does the real money go? To the RIAA. They can screw themselves... and don't give me that shit about the artists starving without me.
I'd rather download a $15 album of KaZaA and send a check for $1.80 (12%) directy to the artist.