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Posted By: damon Posted On: Dec 11, 2004 Views: 1415	hardly ever buy music nowadays The last time I wanted a copy of a song I went to Target (a department store) and found that the CD it was on was over $20US and had warning stickers about song content. Way too much money for one song on a disk I couldn't let my kids hear. That's a lost sale. I wanted a greatest hits album for an artist. This artist happened to have two different 'greatest hits' recordings, and neither one had all the songs I expected to find, and both had a lot of songs I didn't want. So I didn't buy either. Another lost sale. I would *GLADLY* buy songs a la carte. I don't use P2P to infringe artists' copyrights. In fact, I've never used P2P at all. But I haven't yet found a place to buy, and this is important to me, non-DRM .ogg or .mp3 files. I'm a linux user and if, like me, you support the GPL then you must also respect other's rights to use copyright law to limit how their work is used. But I believe that under Fair Use, I should be able to burn as many copies of a song I as I require for MY USE. If my kid breaks the disk, if I want to migrate to a new computer system, if I want a back-up, etc. I want more music. There are lots of songs from the past and today that I would be happy to shell out money to have in my collection, but I have my limits. If you sell it to me, it has to be on the same terms as it was when I used to by LPs. P2P hasn't made any difference in my buying habits at all, and probably cannot unless it forces the market to let me buy music on my terms. Damon
Posted By: K-DAWG Posted On: Feb 21, 2004 Views: 1499	P2P I bought cd's more now because I will download a song or two and if I like it I buy it.
Posted By: Bruce Posted On: Nov 27, 2003 Views: 1741	P2P AND SALES By the way, I don't use file-sharing networks for music.
Posted By: napsterlover Posted On: Nov 14, 2003 Views: 931	Love to share File sharing is no more an end to making money from music than the video cassette recorder was in the 70's to the movie industry. I remember them all crying that they were not going to make enough money to make new movies. LMAO!!!
Posted By: Jim Posted On: Nov 11, 2003 Views: 871	Downloads 100% of what I have downloaded I already bought as an album, cassette or 8-track. I don't have the money or desire to buy it all over again in cd format. If I can get it in digital format for free, I will. If it costs, I'll pass. The royalties have already been paid once or twice by me. Remember CSNY 4-way street? I bought that album twice (wore the first one out) so I don't feel the least bit bad downloading the songs from it. It's not right to flat out steal the music from the musicians but it is also not right that consumers pay double royalties. Don't know what the answer is, so I just download what I already own(ed) and I don't steal what I don't own. I'm ok with that.
Posted By: Mike Posted On: Oct 6, 2003 Views: 771	Lost Sales? The vast majority of the music I have availed myself to has been oldies, things I couldn't find in any music store and things I didn't even realize had been remastered to CD. So, has anyone lost any money in my case? Not hardly. If you can't find it, you sure can't buy it.
Posted By: anthonyberet Posted On: Sep 14, 2003 Views: 878	a comment on my own poll The methodology of this is not very scientific I know, but I can't find a 3rd-party provider that does a decent online survey for free. Given the choice, I would ask how many CD's per year a user bought before and during p2p use. Then the data could analysed a bit better. By the way, anyone who thinks I might be an RIAA stooge should ask themselves why I am using this poll provider,and what am I asking? And they could check my posting history on Usenet. They should probably also consider that the RIAA, as it wants IP addresses of sharers, is quite unfettered in getting these from most of the p2p networks themselves. Duh! ;-)