Warner Bros. Admits To Issuing Bogus DCMA Takedowns

And I'm sure TPP will make it even worse.
Warner Bros and their buddies have been stealing from us and from artists for years. These days I buy no music and watch almost no movies. I can imagine a time when entertainment industry gets the law changed so that people (like me) who don't consume their product will be labelled as thieves for impacting their profits. That's right warner Music - every time I don't buy a Dwight Yoakam song, that's coming right off your bottom line!!
 
In my younger years I bought up around 500 CDs. Now they sit in boxes. I made attempts to transfer some of that onto my media server and Google Music, but I've put a pause to that. I guess I'm just an old geezer. Although, if U2 or Thievery Corporation puts out another CD I'll probably buy it.

The only movie I want to buy right now is Apocalypse Now on BluRay. And only if it's on sale. The rest I'll watch on netflix.
 
Glaucus said:
Although, if U2 or Thievery Corporation puts out another CD I'll probably buy it.
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I'll likely buy another CD one day - until they put DRM on them or I have to get a new drive and it won't let me rip. Then it's the end.
But a CD, at least around herein Vancouver is about ten bucks to twenty I guess, depending. I've bought new for ten. So you pay about a buck a song, but that buck is split between the retailer (thin margins but probably a few bucks), the supplier, the truckers, the factory, the jewel case supplier, the printer, the rights holder, and if there's any left over from that, the artist. That's a lot of folks who share that money. But with new modern technology, copying and distribution are virtually free, so who gets all those savings? You don't and the artists doesn't, and all those other people who used to make stuff and transport stuff don't. The guys that are skimming all the extra these days can go rot as far as I'm concerned.
 
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