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KeyserSoze · 09-11-2003, 08:52 PM

Personally I think the real reason the sales are down 30% is because of USED records and CD sales.

My friends family owns a couple of used record stores and their business has tripled in the past couple of years....Hmmmmm...I wonder if the RIAA has looked into this as their loss of revenue.

Now, heres the problem I have.

I buy a CD and after recording it and playing it a few times I then go and sell it to a used record store. Buy a couple of different cd's and do the same thing. Now the RIAA does not see one dime of this money and they don't complain or pitch a bitch.

I buy the same cd and put it on my PC and offer it up for free for those who wish to have a certain song, now remember this is MY CD that I purchased USED and no money was given to the RIAA from the used record store or to their artists.

Whe I purchase music it means that I have PURCHASED THE RIGHTS to that individual CD or ALBUM, what I choose to do with it is of my own FREE WILL.

If I put the songs on MY HARDDRIVE and offer it up for the use of others it is my right because that particular CD is MINE.....not the songs....not the artist.........that CD.

The used record stores are basically doing the same thing I am doing but they CHARGE for EXCHANGING music because thats all it really is anyway, just another form of exchanging music.

Maybe we should sue the RIAA for infringing on our rights as consumers and trying to dictate what we do with the product we buy. If I have a receipt for 100 cd's and I share those.........IT'S MY FUCKING BUSINESS wether I wipe my ass with them or make copies and give them to all my friends.

When they start tring to dicatate what I do in the privacy of my home and on my PC something is really wrong with our judicial system when they allow this to happen.

And for any of you that are going to say the artists are being hurt...........DON'T give me any of that BS because the artists are the last ones on the food chain in that industry that sees only the crumbs the record industry makes.

09-11-2003, 08:52 PM	#24 (permalink)
KeyserSoze Psycho Location: Lost Angeles	Personally I think the real reason the sales are down 30% is because of USED records and CD sales. My friends family owns a couple of used record stores and their business has tripled in the past couple of years....Hmmmmm...I wonder if the RIAA has looked into this as their loss of revenue. Now, heres the problem I have. I buy a CD and after recording it and playing it a few times I then go and sell it to a used record store. Buy a couple of different cd's and do the same thing. Now the RIAA does not see one dime of this money and they don't complain or pitch a bitch. I buy the same cd and put it on my PC and offer it up for free for those who wish to have a certain song, now remember this is MY CD that I purchased USED and no money was given to the RIAA from the used record store or to their artists. Whe I purchase music it means that I have PURCHASED THE RIGHTS to that individual CD or ALBUM, what I choose to do with it is of my own FREE WILL. If I put the songs on MY HARDDRIVE and offer it up for the use of others it is my right because that particular CD is MINE.....not the songs....not the artist.........that CD. The used record stores are basically doing the same thing I am doing but they CHARGE for EXCHANGING music because thats all it really is anyway, just another form of exchanging music. Maybe we should sue the RIAA for infringing on our rights as consumers and trying to dictate what we do with the product we buy. If I have a receipt for 100 cd's and I share those.........IT'S MY FUCKING BUSINESS wether I wipe my ass with them or make copies and give them to all my friends. When they start tring to dicatate what I do in the privacy of my home and on my PC something is really wrong with our judicial system when they allow this to happen. And for any of you that are going to say the artists are being hurt...........DON'T give me any of that BS because the artists are the last ones on the food chain in that industry that sees only the crumbs the record industry makes. __________________ THERE IS NO KEYSER SOZE!! Last edited by KeyserSoze; 09-11-2003 at 08:54 PM..