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Stop Music For Free, Pleads Record Industry
Reuters via Yahoo ^
| July 10, 2002
| Paul Majendie
Posted on 07/10/2002 1:02:19 PM PDT by Reaganwuzthebest
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To: Reaganwuzthebest
Lower the price of a disk and you'll sell more of them.
To: Reaganwuzthebest
I agree. Those who are in it for the money will leave the music scene, while the true artists will stay. Good.
To: Reaganwuzthebest
Return to mainstream music -- stop forcing that CRAP on those of us with any taste!
Regarding lowering the price, that would help. It actually costs less to produce a CD than it did to produce a vinyl LP, yet the margin is at least three times higher.
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posted on
07/10/2002 1:13:14 PM PDT
by
TommyDale
To: Reaganwuzthebest
Well their killing of Napster was like slaying the goose what lays the golden eggs. They took they few eggs forming then and now none left.
Napster sold more CDs -- with great quality sound -- after some tracks were sampled in MP3.
Being too greedy has lost it for them.
They are now like the vacuum tube manufacturers trying to stop the transistors. Or buggy whip makers, or makers of pitch tar torches.
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posted on
07/10/2002 1:13:20 PM PDT
by
bvw
To: Reaganwuzthebest
This coming from an industry with an unblemished track record of scupulously looking after both artists and consumers interests sometimes at the expense of their own, for lo these many years. </sarcasm>
To: Reaganwuzthebest
The record industry pleaded on Wednesday with consumers to stop downloading and recording music for free because piracy was strangling the multi-billion-dollar industry.The music biz is is in its death-throes. They know it and there isn't anything they can do about it. There is an entire generation of kids out there who have never known what it is to actually *pay* for recorded music.
The only people getting screwed here are the execs. Musicians don't make diddly-squat from CD sales --maybe pennies on the dollar. Musicians (especially small, touring bands) actually win out with this new arrangement. More people get exposed to their music this allows them to make more money performing live (which is really where musicians have fun make the bulk of their cash).
It is the suits who are panicked.
Here is a related thread: Labels to Net Radio: Die Now (Why RIAA wants to kill internet radio)
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posted on
07/10/2002 1:16:04 PM PDT
by
Drew68
To: bvw
Being too greedy has lost it for them. That and the fact there simply aren't any Led Zeppelins or Pink Floyds around today. The quality of the music has never been this bad.
To: Reaganwuzthebest
Industry bigwigs: The only thing that would make me jump for more joy than watching you squirm would be the watch the MLB players overplay their hand and take in like a man when the pink slips get delivered ala league contraction. Man o man, are we in for a deflationary period. Makes me wanna sell muh house now!
Industry bigwigs---->bwahahahahaha. go away. music today stinks anyway.
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posted on
07/10/2002 1:16:25 PM PDT
by
kinghorse
To: bvw
"Napster sold more CDs -- with great quality sound -- after some tracks were sampled in MP3."
Pollyana want a cracker? Your joking right.
To: Reaganwuzthebest
Perhaps they should consider selling CDs for less than $12 to $17 ... nah, that's just crazy talk.
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posted on
07/10/2002 1:20:28 PM PDT
by
Polonius
To: Reaganwuzthebest
Speaking as a professional musician...it couldn't happen to a NICER bunch of coke-addled buttwipes.
The industry REALLY needs to start over, and flush out ALL the idiots, and re-think how music is made, produced, and profited on.
I have found that going AROUND the Industry penguins (think white powder here...), and getting my music heard by all who want to ALSO has had the wondrous effect of killing schlock radio and talent-less DJ's as well!
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posted on
07/10/2002 1:21:58 PM PDT
by
Itzlzha
To: Reaganwuzthebest
Sooooo.......what's the best way to capture streaming audio?
To: Reaganwuzthebest
Remember when mediocre was a bad thing? Now it's happening everywhere--in art, music, everything. Craftmanship is dead.
To: BrooklynGOP
99.9% of musicians' incomes would not be affected at all if the entire recording industry vanished from the face of the Earth. The RIAA and its constituents equating themselves with "music" is laughable.
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posted on
07/10/2002 1:22:34 PM PDT
by
eno_
To: Reaganwuzthebest
I said it before I will say it again, this needs an ecconomic solution.
I think these suits also need to get a grasp on intelectual property and the fact it is a legislative construct. intelectual property's rights are limited by time and are not infinite.
To: Drew68
Re: post # 7...
Dead-Bang on target! This assesment is 100% correct!
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posted on
07/10/2002 1:23:53 PM PDT
by
Itzlzha
To: Reaganwuzthebest
That and the fact there simply aren't any Led Zeppelins or Pink Floyds around today. The quality of the music has never been this bad. I beg to differ. There is an incredible amount of quality music being made today, in many, many different genres. It just isn't being played on the radio or pushed by major labels. The smaller artists who are exposed to a larger audience by file-sharing networks are the ones making incredible music, and they benefit from the current environment. THAT's what terrifies the execs right now.
To: Reaganwuzthebest
Record executives also believe there are now more unauthorized music files available on the Internet than at the height of Napster's success in the field.This is a blatant lie, and they know it. I've found it increasingly difficult to locate the tunes I search for now and again. Mostly you get spammed with .txt lists of "WinAmp" generated play lists.
(And if you're one of these people who puts their play lists on their website, you should have your butt kicked.)
To: N. Theknow
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