I am not surprised.

I don't know. I agree with the diea that KISS sells so much of their crap cause of on line sharing and all that junk... I wouldn't even waste my tiem downloading KISS music anyway.

But I see it like this. a little while ago I DLed the Crimson Glory discography. I liked it so much I went out and bought the first two albums.

Now, I think it always works this way. if music was cheaper to buy this would happen regularly.



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: A couple of weeks ago, Gene Simmons made one of his ridiculously
: misguided attacks on file sharers (he does it every few years).
: Despite the fact that KISS is a perfect example of a band that
: makes a ton of money from scarce goods that are made more
: valuable the more people are aware of their music, Simmons has
: this misguided notion that "suing everyone" is the
: right strategy. Of course, as we pointed out at the time, he's
: obviously bluffing, because he's had the opportunity to do so
: for years and he has not done so.
:
: Either way, his antics caught the attention of the folks behind
: "Operation Payback," from the group Anonymous (an
: effort that I still think is equally misguided), and they took
: down Simmons' website with a DDoS attack (after an apparent
: dispute internally over whether or not Simmons should be a
: target).
:
: Either way, it appears that the attack only sharpened the
: rhetoric from Simmons, in his standard
: speak-first-understand-later manner. He posted on his site that
: he was working with the FBI to "sue their pants off"
: for "hacking" his site:
:
:
: Some of you may have heard a few popcorn farts re: our sites
: being threatened by hackers.
:
: Our legal team and the FBI have been on the case and we have
: found a few, shall we say "adventurous" young people,
: who feel they are above the law.
:
: And, as stated in my MIPCOM speech, we will sue their pants
: off.
:
: First, they will be punished.
:
: Second, they might find their little butts in jail, right
: next to someone who's been there for years and is looking for a
: new girl friend.
:
: We will soon be printing their names and pictures.
:
: We will find you.
:
: You cannot hide.
:
: Stay tuned
:
:
: Well, good luck with that. It tends to be a lot harder to
: identify folks behind a DDoS attack than you might think. Also,
: I'm curious why the FBI even cares, but we've seen the FBI
: kowtow to celebrities in the past, so it's possible. Either way,
: all this has done, so far, is to get Anonymous back to taking
: down Simmons' website. My guess is that, just like his previous
: comments, this looks like Simmons as all-talk-and-no-action.
: But, the more he tries to become the latest version of Lars
: Ulrich, the more he's going to regret it.
:
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