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Musicnet Fails to Impress Customers
mcwop writes "A Wall Street Journal story carried on MSNBC chronicles MusicNet's failure as a service before it even gets started. The story contains some funny quotes such as: 'The first offering was too clunky and too consumer unfriendly to hold much hope for its success, says Richard Parsons, AOL Time Warner's incoming chief executive. So we are going to go back, and we will come out with a 2.0 product which will be more consumer friendly, easy to use. ... This is a business of trial and error.' Any consumer could have informed the music titans that their business plan was flawed. Unfortunately, version 2.0 won't be any better unless the music industry is willing to take some risks. One of the more interesting aspects to the story is how the major music companies could hardly be present in the same room for fear that antitrust laws may be broken." A good business-oriented review of Musicnet's operations. With the artists making a quarter-cent per downloaded song, they're probably just as happy to see it fail.
...with more than one person in the room?
What will happen when the music executives find out about THIS? Oh, those clever, wicked teenagers... they buy ONE copy of a CD, but TWO people get to listen to it!
If they play it on a boom box on the subway, the number of illegal listeners can climb even higher! It's theft, that's what it is! It's just like shoplifting--no, bank robbery!
We need a law requiring every CD player to include a little IR scanner that counts the number of people in the room and shuts down if you haven't purchased the right number of licenses (or charges them to your credit card). This is in our own interest as consumers, because if this isn't done, there won't be any profit in music any more and then there won't be any music. Nope, none at all. How would we like THAT?
(P.S. It's irony, folks)
"How to Do Nothing," kids activities, back in print!
If only musicnet would realize how to please customers.
I heard a song on the radio the other day, and I am remembering it now! And I am not even paying for the privilege!
I can't stop. I must be a cleptomaniac.