Good job industry, welcome to Clueless Land.

BTW I sure hope they got licensing rights for the DOOM references, the Klingons, Panasonic, Yahoo, Ricoh, Ernst & Young, and so on.

It could also Burn the MOVIES in Standard VOB for ANY DVD player, with not COPY PROTECTION, which means it will play on ANY DVD PLAYER, or one of the OTHER nice formats, WMV, DIVX, MP4, MP2, and be able to play on(ALMOST) ANY DEVICE you want.(I WONT watch a movie on a 4″ screen)

So, everything is taken care of, and the media can be PLAYED on Many, many machines/devices.
Setting up 1 machine would cost about $15k-20k and burn EITHER CD or DVD..BL is abit more expensive.. Making a profit of $1 per sale? over 1 year would pay off the machine, AT THE LEAST. And if it doesnt, your machine is in the WRONG SPOT.

You could even do this with SOFTWARE.. Thinbk of cutting 3/4 off a $50 NEW program..
Think about having 1000′s of pieces of software/demos/freeware in a 4×4 Cabinet..

A cabinet that you could install ANYWHERE..
From gas stations, to WALMART..

The bottom line problem is that their media is SIMPLY WAY TOO EXPENSIVE both in terms of what people earn and can afford to pay for entertainment, and in terms of intrinsic worth of much of what amounts to….garbage. Garbage that costs far less to actually make than what we are supposed to pay for it. If RIAA wants to reduce or eliminate piracy, the common sense thing to do is STOP THE JACKBOOT THUG POLICIES and simply reduce the price of the media to something people are actually are willing and able to pay for. The greed of this organization is apparently boundless. It always pisses me off when I find a great video on YouTube from the 60s or 70s that NO ONE is going to buy as it’s too obscure, and then I find it removed or wrecked (audio lifted) because of this copyright crap. The funny thing is….if they offered me the opportunity to actually BUY that video…at a reasonable price….I WOULD! But I don’t even get that option. And the artists who might have been lifted from obscurity by posting the video go right back into the memory hole of the ages….

So fug RIAA and the time machine they teleported in on.

Oh, #1. I thought the same thing but they do thank Star Trek and idSoftware at the end — so I guess they have permission.

If they made music so plentiful and cheap, that they’d buy it the way they buy bottled water. There would be very little piracy, in proportion to what was produced. But the industry is only making and selling music as if they were selling diamonds. And can’t understand why people would copy it, rather than pay a small fortune for it. People buy bottled water and juices, because it’s convenient and fairly cheap. If the price were jacked up by corporate greed (as music is). Then people would buy empty bottles and fill them themselves. And no stupid law prohibiting that, is going to work.

So the only thing the music industry is really accomplishing, is stifling the creation and distribution of independent music. By making sure the same channels that carry indy music, are blamed for carrying copyrighted music, illegally. So it all gets shutdown. It wouldn’t surprise me if the recording industry “leaked” tunes onto P2P, just so they can cry foul of it all. If piracy didn’t already exist. They’d have invented it.

When 10 albums is MOST of the food you are going to buy?? They want me to pay HOW MUCH??

since the cost of goods has increased 30-50%..
And wages DIDNT go up for years.

NOW wages are going up, and COSTS are going up FASTER.

When CANADA is considered the MAJOR pirate of the world??