Ooook so your a bit sensative on the subject I see.
Breathe man Breathe!
Well you are right its wrong that they are increasing prices and changing the law when all it would take is to lower prices so people will continue to buy CD's. I heard on our radio station here on 104KRBE that Tommy Lee has a new CD comming out and he went through someone else and did alot of other processing for his CD on his own and is charging 7.00 a CD in the stores so that way kids/parents can buy the CD with out being charged and Arm and a Leg. No teenybopper is going to keep asking mommy and/or daddy for more money to buy that stuff cause they know mom and dad will probably say no when it gets too high, unless money is not an issue for you.
Or they will look for other ways to obtain it when its too much.
And I know some about the music business...I sing, I've done touring, I've seen the shitty pay, on the other end the hard work that goes into it as well, at the same time, I love singing and so it didn't bother me as much the money aspect, yeah it was low, but I loved what I did.
And I know that when it comes to record sales they get a small percentage from every CD that is sold. They get a huge amount of money from touring/apperances/etc, and its why they do tours instead of just making CD's.
What they do forget is that this is just another way that music is copied just like back in the day when your friends, or you had that one guy in your neighborhood where he would sell you copies for cheap on tape. Ya'll remember those days. The only difference with this is information travels a bit faster but not to mention that not everyone has a computer in there house hold and that some ppl are buying this stuff from other people. So I could understand when you maybe make a copy of a CD for a person or two but when you start handing it out or selling it like hotcakes then yeah that is wrong.
How can you say that getting charged a monthly fee to download songs and then to get charged to burn every song that you want is the best deal. Your looking at like, just a figure for example, $15.00 USD a month + 13.00 (.99cents a CD) - so you come out pay a lil bit more this way than buying the cd or just getting individual songs and paying something maybe cheaper per song. Not to mention depending upon how many songs are on the CD too! Just charge a flat fee and be done with it I say.
For me...some type of music i listen too its hard to even try to get it main stream or not even available (cause its overseas or music is a different language). Or even mixed stuff or dj's stuff.
Over all I just think this could be handled a lot better and they are just jumping ahead with out thinking about it and in the end I think its going to fall on everyones faces and for those like the RIAA and other that are overly- suing, over charging, etc. It just could be dealt with SO differently or at least better.