Comments on: Used CDs Are Bad Bad Things

By: dave

dave — Fri, 11 May 2007 00:14:09 +0000

Jeff, I didn’t bring up the guns in the post but that was the first thing I thought of. I do agree that if the music industry is hurting, they should be altering the way they do business and what they sell. It’s how it works for other industries, but the music business gets special treatment because they are special.

Bryce, that’s an admirable way to handle your money.

John, that might be next. The RIAA and MPAA might next attack that bastion of pirates that let people take their content for free, the evil public library.

By: John

John — Thu, 10 May 2007 12:57:45 +0000

This is ridiculous, why haven’t they done this to used bookstores then?! The music industry needs to wake up and face reality (put out better music and lower prices)!! In the meantime, I invite you all to check out GigaTribe (encrypted file-sharing between friends): http://www.gigatribe.com

By: Bryce Moore

Bryce Moore — Wed, 09 May 2007 14:50:48 +0000

As much as I tend to drink conspiracy-theorist’s Kool-Aid from time to time, there’s no doubt in my mind that the music industry is very quietly pushing and supporting these laws in the background (through study groups and fake lobby fronts and other shady tactics we’ve come to know and love).

There’s a used CD store in my area that’s locally owned by a guy who still works the counter two days a week. Patronizing his business to me is less about “sticking it to Big Music” and more about not only getting a great deal on CD’s I never got around to replacing from my vinyl/cassette days, but also supporting my local job-providing small business owner.

By: Jeff

Jeff — Wed, 09 May 2007 13:30:08 +0000

So a waiting period before purchasing guns is considered an unreasonable restraint on our right to own firearms….

But the guy who wants to resell that crappy CD that wasn’t worth $17.95 the first time around has to wait 30 days.

As you say, a law like that can have only one purpose… to put the chill on that sector of the business, and to further enforce their silly victim narrative.

If the music industry is suffering (and statistically, in some ways, they are doing better than ever) is not because we are downloading or reselling their product.

It’s because they protecting their piece of the pie using any means necessary other than actually evolving their ideas or selling better music.