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Originally Posted by gideongallery
so instead of consumers being forced to buy an album when they really only wanted 3 songs they now buy the 3 songs.
What funny is you seem to see this as a justification to make more draconion copyright laws rather then i don't know produce a better quality album that has significantly higher percentage of good songs.
leveraging the distribution channels (bit torrent etc) to test market the songs so that you have less dogs and more successes (for example).
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Actually no, I am just stating that the industry has changed. The music industry did a lot of this to themselves. For years (maybe even decades) they have put out artists who have 1-3 good songs and they rushed a CD so you could buy it. You had not other choice. if you wanted those songs you had to purchase the full CD and the record industry made a lot of money off of it. Now that has changed. Now if you want to buy just a couple of songs you can. I actually think that is good because artists that put out good full albums will sell them and those that just release a single or only have a couple of good songs will only sell that.
I do however think that the record labels should be allowed to defend themselves against illegal downloaders. If they feel suing everyone who ever illegally downloaded a song is the way to go about defending themselves then so be it. If it ends up biting them in the ass in the end then they will have nobody to blame but themselves.
Call me crazy but I guess I just don't see it as too much to ask to pay for the music you own.