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Oz Music Retailers Boycott Over Electronic Distribution
Michael Woodhams writes, "Fairfax I.T. reports that two major Australian music retail chains will no longer stock recordings from publisher Festival Mushroom Group in retaliation for the latter granting sanity.com.au exclusive rights to electronic sales and distribution of their songs. For a change, it appears that it is the exclusivity rather than electronic distribution that is causing the problem."
I dont like the fact that by owning stock in the online service, the percentage of money the record company ends up with is even more. Artists should look to get a larger share since Festival Mushroom Group is ending up with more money overall.
Darn, I was looking forward to picking up some Festival Mushroom Group artists music while I was down in Australia.
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While it is good to see the Aussie music industry working to stop this sort of thing it is a bit late. The deal is already signed and sealed.
At least it might stop them renewing the agreement in 3 years but for now they are going to have to live with it.
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uhmm.. make that like 6th and 1st reply post to my own post or something like that
I dont like the fact that by owning stock in the online service, the percentage of money the record company ends up with is even more. Artists should look to get a larger share since Festival Mushroom Group is ending up with more money overall.
You're smoking crack. The structure of ownership of the companies has nothing to do with how much money anyone gets. This is a double counting error pure and simple.
I'm Australian. I buy music online. It's cheaper, MUCH cheaper.
Quite honestly, Sanity/Mushroom can do whatever they want. Sure, it sucks, but i'm still gonna buy from overseas anyway...
whoa... that is offtopic but what a SUN bashing!
damng.
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Sorry, I mistyped, I meant "WTO law"! (although, I'd also argue that WTO law basically = US law)
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Business A signs a deal with Business B, and now Businesses C & D will no longer talk to Business A.
Nothing new...old business practices. In certain situations, such reactions are illegal, but rarely. This sort of stuff happens all the time in music labels, movie production studios, etc. etc. A perfect example: a while back all the late-night talk shows (Letterman, Leno, etc.) were in fierce competition over guests, and various claims were made by various related organizations that if guests were to go and appear on one show they wouldn't be allowed to appear on the other, and vice-versa. Illegal?..no...they're just competing in one of the few ways they can. Does it still seem slightly ugly to me...a little, yes.
Nothing new under the sun, unfortunately...
Buy overseas, screw the domestic economy. It's a capitalist world, and every person for themselves!
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Better yet, the fact that they are protesting the exclusivity must mean that they wanted to do some electronic distribution themselves!
Many American artists and labels have exclusive arrangements with online sites like emusic, real, etc. and retailers haven't made a peep about it as far as I know
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If I remember correctly, Video Ezy and Blockbuster video have been doing this for awhile.
I can't remember the exact movie (major box office movie) but Video Ezy had sole hire rights to it until it moved to 3 day hire at Video Ezy, at which point all other stores could get stock.
Admittedly the Sanity deal is different in that Sanity keeps sole rights for 3 years instead of a few months, but the deal is the very much the same.
Simple solution here buy the affected music elsewhere.
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On Wednesday, Festival announced that Sanity.com.au would have exclusive right to sell and distribute digital copies of songs by its Australian artists for at least three years.
So nobody else can even sell CDs? After all, they are digital...
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What kind of a name is that for a business? It sounds very drug related.
e r to Get Stoopid & Stoned Group"
Maybe they should change their name to "Festival-Of-Being-Hiting-On-The-Head-With-A-Hamm
There isn't quite enough censorship here yet, as your account hasn't been permanently blocked.
Rob? Get on it. Block access to account "i244" and make it snappy.
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I dont know the exact law but i think that the actions of sanitydotcom are againts certain sections of the trade practices act (dont know the exact paragraph). I know this from personal retail experience. Could someone who's got a degree in australian law could clean this up please.
KMart is fine if all you want to listen to is teeny-bopper boy bands and the other top 40 stuff. I can track down any music I like from an online retailer.
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I'd be worried if I were Mushroom/Festival Records. After that little secuirty hickup that sanity.com.au had late last year (where you could by cd's in a different currency and sanity.com.au would send you out the cd's BEFORE it even converted the money or even confirmed that you had a real credit card) And now your going to trust them to handle your digital downloads ??? I think perhaps record companies should strike deals with the big players in the Australian MP3 community like MP3.com.au . Leave it up to the guys that know how to do things best.
Australia's largest retailer, Harvey Norman, made good on their threat last year to stop selling Compaq products if Compaq started web sales. The result? Harvey-Norman no longer sells Compaq computers, costing Compaq something like 18 million in revenue for the year. Throughout the retail industry in Australia, large retailers are leaning on their distributors to make sure that ecommerce sites cannot offer better prices.
...which explains why it is cheaper to buy a HP from Harvey Norman than it is to buy direct from HP. I was wondering about that
I wonder why HP would bother with the online distro if they can't ever be cheaper... they may get the occasional dimwit who couldn't be bothered shopping around, but that would hardly cover the cost of maintaining an e-commerce site??
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Amazon.co.uk has some wacky prices sometimes, especially with textbook prices. The same textbook might cost only 22 pounds at amazon.co.uk (~ $35US) and $83 at amazon.com.
Perhaps amazon is trying to dump products in the UK in an attempt to drive out competition and underhandedly achieve market dominance. If true, it's just another reason to boycot them.
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