I have to admit that this story makes me happy -- it couldn't have happened to a more deserving industry. Once these companies collapse, a new business model around music will emerge, but the scourge of these companies will hopefully not re-emerge as quickly.
1 posted on
05/28/2007 5:23:24 AM PDT by
WL-law
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To: WL-law
I don’t get it...doesn’t everybody want to buy CD’s of the latest Rap and Hip-Hop artists?
To: WL-law
Most of the new talent just plain sucks.Add to that gas prices and young folks just don’t have them money.
3 posted on
05/28/2007 5:29:58 AM PDT by
TLEIBY308
To: WL-law
The new business model is here, they just don't get it.
Despite costly efforts to build buzz around new talent and thwart piracy
Well, when your "new talent" sucks and you spend money going after the little guy, that'll happen.
Songs to download should cost a quarter. Paying a dollar or close to it for a song that in some cases has limited life/playability, that's a no for me.
As for talent, when they focus on music with a melody and people who can actually sing and stop selling a "look", then they'll get the publics attention.
4 posted on
05/28/2007 5:32:32 AM PDT by
visualops
(artlife.us)
To: WL-law
Hilary Rosen's extortionate attempts to prop up the Big Labels with lawsuits has flopped. RIAA needs to go back to the drawing board.
Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." -Manuel II Paleologus
5 posted on
05/28/2007 5:32:56 AM PDT by
goldstategop
(In Memory Of A Dearly Beloved Friend Who Lives In My Heart Forever)
To: WL-law
I hate to admitit ,but I like it too.
After all their efforts to jail or sue people who downloaded their crap this is their reward. I think its great.
When your music is around and people are downloading it free, others are buying. When the kids cant get it free ,it gets no play. No play. small sales.
6 posted on
05/28/2007 5:33:22 AM PDT by
sgtbono2002
(I'm gonna vote for Fred. John Bolton for VP.)
To: WL-law
I haven’t purchased a CD in almost 10 years, but that doesn’t make me a criminal. Gifts, legal music downloads and loaned CDs still make up parts of my library. That’s not to say I don’t want these vermin to be flushed as they deserve.
I’ll gladly support artists, and being an avid concert-goer, I do. They get MUCH more than my fair share of money from the swag I buy from tickets to t-shirts and stickers. The artists are a smart bunch of folks, and I think they’ve wised up to the dinosaur recording industry’s extortion.
7 posted on
05/28/2007 5:33:40 AM PDT by
rarestia
("One man with a gun can control 100 without one." - Lenin / Molwn Labe!)
To: WL-law
Only time I buy a whole CD is when I can’t find what I want to download off iTunes. iTunes selection of classical music is somewhat limited.
8 posted on
05/28/2007 5:33:42 AM PDT by
randita
To: WL-law
What happened to the music biz is very similar what is happening to the news biz. They don’t control the distribution system anymore. Much as the newspapers don’t have a monopoly on the printing press, the music biz doesn’t have a monopoly on music recorders.
9 posted on
05/28/2007 5:34:06 AM PDT by
abb
(The Dinosaur Media: A One-Way Medium in a Two-Way World)
To: WL-law
I saw an article a few weeks ago that suggested that CD's as currently sold by record companies are on their way to becoming obsolete.
You'll see more and more artists selling their music song by song from their websites.
10 posted on
05/28/2007 5:36:23 AM PDT by
csvset
To: WL-law
The social ripping and burning of CDs among friends which takes place offline and almost entirely out of reach of industry policing efforts accounted for 37 percent of all music consumption, more than file-sharing, NPD said.
I'd like to know just how they can come up with a figure for an activity that is under the table. I mean where do they get that? Consumer polling? Guess? Wishful thinking to explain their sagging sales?
11 posted on
05/28/2007 5:37:18 AM PDT by
visualops
(artlife.us)
To: WL-law
Country music is on fire right now with lots of good songs...but I’m tired of the music business. I do the right thing and download songs for a buck a piece at Walmart. But now each song contains some sort of lock on it so it can only be played on one computer, and you have to move them to mp3 players in a special way or song won’t be unlocked. Also if you reinstall your OS and upload your songs to the hard drive, the “key” isn’t there and they hassle you about how many times you’ve reinstalled your OS(they only allow two reinstalls- how big of them.) Sometimes you’ll just try to play a song and the key will be lost. I have a few songs like that I’m just tired of trying to get to work.
13 posted on
05/28/2007 5:39:47 AM PDT by
Vision
("Blessed is the man who trusts in the Lord, whose confidence is in him." Jeremiah 17:7)
To: WL-law
It's almost like these people are purposely showing their greediness and absolutely stupidity about "how" the medium is changing.
Figure it out bozo's, and stop bitchin!
The gravy train is changing tracks!
14 posted on
05/28/2007 5:39:47 AM PDT by
sirchtruth
(No one has the RIGHT not to be offended...)
To: WL-law
American Idol is taking the wind out of these other companies’ sales.
15 posted on
05/28/2007 5:40:16 AM PDT by
ikka
To: WL-law
This isn’t just about piracy either. The market for promotion services have now become commodities that don’t lend themselves to hierarchical business models. The cost of entry has dropped to the point where anyone who applies for all their junk mail credit card applications will have enough credit to cut and promote tracks. Musicians win back their artistic and career freedom by taking back control of their business plans. Down with record reps!
Independent CD/DAT mastering studios are charging less now than they did 5 years ago. CD pressing now costs less than US$.75 a wrapped disk if bought in quantity. It’s gotten so cheap large numbers of baby boomers are pressing their own CD’s, oh god some of them are horrible, but it’s a cheap hobby relatively.
So many things are falling apart in the industry, the lawyers who had sway and went for the resist and litigate route put the final nails in the coffins.
To: WL-law
attn: people buying CD’s
Everyone is laughing at you.
To: WL-law
Sgt Pepper eh?
bought the LP
bought the cassette
bought the CD
bought the computer to burn the CD’s and DVD’s
21 posted on
05/28/2007 5:41:57 AM PDT by
Liberty Valance
(Keep a simple manner for a happy life :o)
To: WL-law
22 posted on
05/28/2007 5:42:52 AM PDT by
TommyDale
(More Americans are killed each day in the U.S. by abortion than were killed on 9/11 !)
To: Wolfstar
23 posted on
05/28/2007 5:43:28 AM PDT by
silent_jonny
(staying & praying)
To: WL-law
There have been,at best,about 20 songs released in the last 15 years in which I’ve had the slightest interest.My music collection consists today of about 5,000 songs and is about 99.5% complete thanks to CD purchases and CD burning (most of the purchases were made before I learned how to burn CD’s).
26 posted on
05/28/2007 5:46:46 AM PDT by
NavySon
(Saying we went to Iraq for oil is like saying we went to Vietnam for rice.)
To: WL-law
They made their own bed..
27 posted on
05/28/2007 5:47:33 AM PDT by
xcamel
(Press to Test, Release to Detonate)
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