Reply #19: I also have quit [View All]

[tarheel]

download and file sharing. My take is its more of a not wanting to risk prosecution though.

But I do have to agree with uberotto. They said, "The market changed, the company didn't keep up, people lost their jobs."

I think the RIAA missed a golden opportunity a couple of years ago to reshape their entire industry and give the consumers what they wanted.

When file sharing started to boom, they could have jumped on the band wagon and offered a product that was user oriented and reasonably priced but they chose to try and bleed consumers.

What I mean is they can effectively eliminate about 30-40 of their overhead costs by simply placing their product on servers and making it available to the buyer. They no longer have to purchase and burn CDs, package that product, pay to distribute it to the record stores, or pay a cut to the record stores.

And even with all of this, they still want to charge me around $15.00 ( based on 15 songs per CD @.99 per song) per CD and they want to control what songs are on that CD rather than let me pick and choose what song I wish to record ? This way they foist off bands that have only 4-5 appealing songs across 3-4 CDs at this price and I end up paying up to $60.00 for 5 songs that are worth my money.

This is what the RIAA has historically done and the public is sick of it. I do have sympathy for the artists and industry workers and support them fully, but I refuse to be a part of the music corporations bleeding the public for ever climbing profits, which I am sure very little of is passed on to the workers or artists.