Let's show the RIAA that we as consumers can control their fate.

[The PIT]

If you cast your mind back there was big fuss about cassettes and recording from the radio. What I found if I liked the song I bought if I wasn't to bothered I recorded over it. The end result was the music industry lost nothing.
Taking your responses, poeple using napster are doing the basically same thing.
The music industry response is the same. lets slap a levy on it.

[Liquid Snake]

Actually, from what I've heard, the record companies and the RIAA gets money from blank cassette sales and SOME blank CD sales. This is to compensate for the fact that they may be used to copy copyrighted music. However, from what I know, they only get money from so-called "recordable audio CDs" that you see in the store. Notice that they almost always cost more than regular CD-Rs. There's almost no point in buying them, because they are basically the same as regular CD-Rs, except that some companies are sucking up to the RIAA, and their CD players only read these "recordable audio CDs."

[impact]

Buy? CDs?... Buy? CDs?... I just don't seem to understand how those two could ever be used together?

Oh, you mean blank media... now I understand...