[citation][nom]rohitbaran[/nom]TPB says the truth. Recording industry is just the money sucking unnecessary evil that should be done away with. Artists should be able to present their work on a platform that has a wide audience and one that gives them their due, not like the recording companies who pay a small fraction of their profits to the artists.[/citation]
to be 100$ fair, recording companies sink crap tons of money into artists, so much so that most dont break even on a debt till their 3rd or 4th cd.
a pro recording studio costs alot of money to make, or even rent
people mixing the song just right cost money too.
a concert also costs a significant amount of money.
without the record companies, alot of lesser bands may never even see the light of day.
record companies =/= riaa
though with digital recording for guitar, bass, keyboard, and so forth, the only really hard parts would be a real drum kit (or an e kit that is 3-4000$) and vocals, but you could make a small recording room and with a decent mic, get the voice pretty good, edit it how you want, such as making it should like it was recorded elsewhere.
for the most part a necessary evil.
[citation][nom]JOSHSKORN[/nom]RIAA and SoundChoice are my two biggest angers. They're both greedy.Instead of being a F*&#ing bully and suing everyone, a MUCH better solution would be to find a way to prevent piracy in the first place. Everyone has Windows computers. Partner up with Microsoft and create a new anti-theft/anti-piracy solution.For the piracy that has already occurred, well, just cut your losses and move on. That's your own damn fault and you deserve it.[/citation]
yay, no more being able to rip my cd collection, i have to re purchase everything... whats this, they increased the price per song to 4$ (2 or 3 songs on every cd are worth purchasing, they want to make up the loss) and there is nothing i can do about it...
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all that said
However, the loss of human jobs due to piracy is real
show me. i'm of the belief that almost all piracy is people who wouldn't purchase it to begin with. show me where the money is actually lost, and not just "potentially" lost like the riaa and mpaa love to point out (mpaa says that every so often that a movie would have cracked 1 billion if not for piracy, but it was a colossal piece of crap and no one went to see it in the first place)