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20-02-02, 07:43 PM | #1 |
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Music industry's digital plans 'fail'
The music industry's attempts to replace Napster and similar copyright-breaking services with legitimate music downloads have failed, according to a report.
The report, by OC&C Strategy Consultants, says legitimate, paid-for music downloads earned only $1m (£710,000) in the US and UK last year. At the same time, some eight billion tracks were exchanged by users of pirate sites offering free music downloads - and up to 2.7m people at any one time are logged on to them. More |
20-02-02, 09:08 PM | #2 |
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What a surprise..... NOT!
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20-02-02, 11:32 PM | #3 |
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"Labels will have to accept lower priced and lower margin models for digital sales in order to compete effectively with pirate services."
Really? How about ZERO margins? Heh. If I'm ever to buy it at all, I'd prefer getting it directly from the artist. I just can't figure what good a label's for today... - js. |
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I like Courtney Love's analogy: the record companies have traditionally been the gatekeepers and they are desperately trying to keep that as a necessary part of the process... ...the labels remind me of the manufacturers of horse-drawn carriages...and it's 1910..and they're standing out in front of their shops watching the first automobile coming down the street |
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If their band really starts to take off, they can always hire someone to make a professional looking cover design and then go directly to some CD manufacturer and see if they can mass produce their albums. If that can't be done they can always keep it small and keep burning the CDs themselves. Doing it this way they will retain all the profits(minus expenses), but they might not have the "prettiest" looking CD. Quote:
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22-02-02, 08:24 PM | #8 |
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Courtney Love's diatribe on this subject is a classic......
http://www.salon.com/tech/feature/2000/06/14/love/ |
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