In some countries, all blank media has a tax on it which is then distributed to the RIAA (I think) because it is assumed that you will only use it for illegally recording copyrighted media. They are now desperately doing what little they can to try to bring back the only success they've ever known - buying suing their customers, hoping we'll keep buying the 8-Tracks too.Īs has been pointed out above, the law varies considerably depending which country you live in. Seriously, how many people reading this have ever owned just one Mac? How many have owned just one iPod?) In this argument, the record companies lost the battle because they weren't responsive enough to see digital music sharing bearing-down on them like a freight train. (Reminds me a lot of how a certain little computer company is suddenly doing really, really well because it manages to sell multiple computers, and iPod's, to the same core group of customers over and over again. This is when the record companies were making $$$ hand-over-fist, because they were selling the same music to the same dedicated, repeat customers in many different formats. Before you know it, you've paid for 3-4 different formats of Three Dog Night. Want to hear it in your car, you'd buy an 8-Track and (later) a Cassette, and then a CD. Hear a new song on the radio, you'd buy a '45. You're probably too young to remember this, but in the "glory days" of the record companies - lots of people would buy the same music in different formats over and over again.
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