> We dont have to break laws to get noticed. That, in my opinion, is in an ideal world. > There have to be some forms of protests that do not > involve breaking the law. Might be. But, without eMule/ Kazaa, our friends in the record industry would not have thought about alternate mediums.
> Jagdeep points out the huge disparity between the cost > of a blank cd and a blank cassette. I fear he's right > that audio companies are banking on revenues from cd > sales by hiking up the price to whatever they find > convenient (even thought end cost of cd may be less > than cassette). I personally do not mind paying 200 bucks for the CD. But I agree with Srinivas' and Jagdeep's logic. I pay a lot more for DVDs, but at least there I get a value, since they've much mroe than the movie. > If there was a better awareness of this in media > outlets... say if someone in this group can get a > member of the media to highlight the economics of cd > versus cassette production and talk about how we're > getting the short shrift, then that would be great > start. I frankly think it will not help. Since we're merely highlighting out stand/ plight. Until that plight of ours affects the record label/ industry nobody will take the initiative to change the status-quo. There has to be a business case for them to change. Our sob stories/ us being short-changed has no business side to it. If at all there is, its only our business side, not theirs. I'm all for staying inside the law. Which is why I said I 'believe' I'm protesting. Its my belief and I've convinced quite a few people on it too. And I'm not going to put up with crap cassette quality just because I'm protesting. Protest is not a suffering as far as I'm concerned. I'm protesting to prove a point. If there's a lawful way to get this message across I'm all for it. But again, as I said earlier, we need to get them to notice the business case. And for that, no satyagraha (buying tapes and suffer with that quality without buying CD) will work. Karthik This August, Discover the Birth of Your Independence and The Magic of A.R.Rahman's Music in Mangal Pandey - The Rising http://www.risingthefilm.com http://www.mangalpandeythefilm.com Music released: Jul 14, 2005 Movie releases: Aug 12, 2005 Explore, Experience, Enjoy A.R.Rahman - The Man, The Music, The Magic. Only at arrahmanfans - The definitive A.R.Rahman e-community. Homepage: http://www.arrahmanfans.com Admin: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To Subscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/arrahmanfans/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
