The RIAA has sued again. This time, the focus light includes more students than before.

It seems like a normal cause for the RIAA. They invest money to make money. Some people come along, however, and download the music for free. That rips away all the profits for the RIAA; maybe not all the profits.

If you think a bit more than some people want you to think, how does the first music file on the Internet come to exist? Either someone bought a copy, or someone recorded a whole debut/opening concert somewhere, right?

That means that the person who initiated the availability of the first music file [not the first music file on the internet, for any particular song] paid to be the legal owner of the song [unless they recorded it in a concert, which is not the case since almost all the files are direct burns from the original cds].

Regarding the profits, the RIAA is making more profit every year. If you take a look at all the previous cd sales in terms of the amount of revenue coming in, you will notice that the revenue coming in is much higher than the previous year for the past 5 years. If you take a look at the number of quality songs coming out each year, you will notice that they are decreasing. Even without the number of quality songs, the total number of songs or albums released each year is less than the previous years.

How can the profits and revenue keep going up while the number of albums and singers [Toxic is toxic, not a singer nor an album] keeps going down each year that are active on duty [releasing songs]? One would think that the price of the cds is going up, and one would be right.

People are paying more for the same [or even worse] cds than before. The revenues keep going up for the RIAA [when I say the RIAA, I am referring to the music labels that form the RIAA in the backbone], and so does the profit.

How then is downloading the music for free hurting the artists or the RIAA? Majority of the singers have no contracts with any label companies. They cannot afford to have a production staff to come up with a song. How then, can we expect the music artists to have an equal access to the same population [consumer/customer] base that the RIAA-hired artists have? They own all the production companies and all the distribution channels.

If they will come out with more quality than things that are called “songs”, why would we not buy the cds? Why do we still buy La Bouche cds from 1997, yet hit the download button on all Toxic wastes?

We pay to go into the movies. Yet, we are shown workers on movie production sets that downloading off the Internet is wrong, compared to the situation when “you steal a candy from a store.” We are told it is wrong. I will tell you what is wrong with stealing movies off the Internet and what might be wrong with the movies themselves in theatres, another day.