RIAA to halt lawsuits, cozy up to ISPs instead
 

http://tech.yahoo.com/blogs/patterson/31678

Doesn't surprise me at all. I wonder if it will actually do them any good? I doubt it.

From what I've heard, the lawsuit's been very expensive for RIAA considering the success rate.

I can't believe the RIAA was so arrogant that they ignored the PR fallout. I have been boycotting music purchaes for years over this crap.

Honestly if you have music from the 80s thats all you need, everything else is ****.

The lawsuits have failed.

Yes they stopped some joes and janes from stealing music. But it also caused many of them to abandon new music instead.

CD sales have crashed. You can no longer sell a 16 dollar CD full of crap because people want one song.

The failure has been stunning. Last I checked the money received from the lawsuits was BARELY enough to keep the ops running. Much less actually giving it to the artists.

Does anyone think it's possible that music might evolve beyond being a money making scheme, like it was in the days before record companies?

Nope

Just like that "nope"? You just said yourself that many young people are abandoning new music. What is going to get them spending money on it again?

I agree with Zachstar. Its all about the money now days.

When a 2010-2020 version of Spice Girls comes around.

Then music really is dead :dead:

Got that right.:yep: Nothing int interesting to me has come out lately. (that's because Rap is at large now. (I dont know how people like that stuff. I see this by what I see, and hear on the kids at schools on other kids I pods, and what they sing/talk about. )

Maybe when new music stops sucking. I mean Nickelback is considered a good bad right now, what does that tell you?

Yea, the 2000s havent been to good to music.

Should be a legal flop however. How could the ISP justify hurting your other viewing/downloading over one business interest? Maybe if the RIAA just stops trying to use the courts to get people to buy their outdated CDs things would be better.

Time to face it, the VHS and the CD have gone the way of the 8 track and record.

That would be a very sad thing since CD's are the only permanent recordings a consumer is allowed to purchase nowadays. I have records from the 1960's that still sound as good as the day i bought them. I seriously doubt IPODs will be around half as long.

From what you guys are saying it's no great loss though, at least with pop music. Real music like Blues and Jazz though is a different story. There has been lots of quality stuff recorded in recent years...