I hate the RIAA and the way that the music industry is setup right now. The record companies are getting way too bloated on cash. Online music distribution is definately the way of the future, but not file sharing. It's not cool to work your rear end off making a song or a game only to have it pirated and spread around the internet. Piracy is really getting out of hand. Apparently Halo for Mac had more copies pirated than actually sold. So, no use complaining about things without thinking of a solution. My solution is to eliminate the middleman. The RIAA and record companies as we know them must go. Distributing music directly over something like iTunes would be a much better idea. Right now, Apple is actually losing money for every song sold on iTunes. They only reason they're making a profit on music is hardware sales of iPods. Why? Because a dollar a song isn't enough for the phreaks at the record companies. The artists themselves recieve only 5-10% of the profits made on thier music. So, you pay a dollar for a song on iTunes, the artist gets a dime. Of course, there is a much better way of doing it. If you remove the RIAA from the picture, you could end up paying 10 cents a song, and having all of it go to the artist. What about Apple? Instead of making a loss on every song sold, they would be breaking even. 10 cents a song, or a dollar for an album is very reasonable. I would buy my entire collection of MP3s if it was at that price. Anyway, back to file-sharing. I think that Kazaa, WinMX, Emule, and other such file-sharing networks suck. Really, they're horrible. You may complain that "They can be used for legal purposes!" Well, they can, but its bad idea. If you want to spread a file without wasting your own bandwidth, use Bittorrent. It's much more efficient, and its almost guarunteed to work well.
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