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Six Giant Music Retailers Will Try Online Sales Together
PingXao writes "The New York Times is reporting that several music retailers are banding together to test online sales. Sad to see the article's author flat-out claim that '... a proliferation of free music-swapping services on the Internet has led to a decline in CD sales.' The retailers are starting to get a clue but still have a long way to go as evidenced by 'Recording companies make the music...' and 'We are in the customer relationship business.'"
movies that you can d/l? oops they already have that.....
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Let me be thhe first to say it:
"Downloading music on Kazaa causes me to go buy CDs, I just like to preview the songs first"
come on you know you all were thinking it...
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I kind of like it too... only one target to DDOS ;) ;) ;)
Now, what would be irony is if someone hacked all the DRM crippleware to be DDOS clients, auto-activated every time Metallica made a press release.
"People can't "pirate" subs, gyros, or muffulettas."
the gauntlet is thrown.
any takers?
Thanks for the link. It was interesting reading, especially the quote from the RIAA "In addition, the label incurs additional costs in finding and signing new artists"
Bad grammar aside, I never realized that new artists were such a shy, retiring lot, or that locating and signing them was such a difficult activity. I was under the mistaken impression that most of them would do anything for a bit of publicity, and would sell their own mother for a record deal. Silly me.
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'... a proliferation of free music-swapping services on the Internet has led to a decline in CD sales.'
well, of course. now people can listen to an album and find out that it sucks BEFORE they buy it.
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People can't "pirate" subs, gyros, or muffulettas.
Well, if they can pirate ships surely they can pirate subs too?
"Accept that some days you are the pigeon, and some days you are the statue." - David Brent, Wernham Hogg
Indeed! Given that a CD costs you something on the order of 20 bucks, just imagine how much it would cost if they had to hire screenwriters, cameramen, actors etc. and make it last over 90 minutes instead of the 40-50 minutes you now get! Why, the results of such a huge and expensive undertaking could certainly not be sold to a customer for less than $200 or more!!
5 years for $2,500 - that's, what, like 120 albums or about 10 cd's of mp3's. (Gazes over at the teetering pile of CDR's in the corner). Shit, I'm getting the death penalty.
"People can't "pirate" subs, gyros, or muffulettas."
the gauntlet is thrown.
Head on over to opensandwich.sourceforge.net. It's a new P2P (Plate to Plate) sandwich sharing application. You can search by bread type, meat type, album, and condiments. It's still in beta though, so be sure to check the sandwiches you download before consumption!
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Lawyer for the prosecution: We realize, your honour, that the defendent's illegal file sharing totalled only $1,206.59, but we intend to prove that this is, in fact, equivalent to $2,892.61 in price-fixed-- ahem, value-added RIAA products, and therefore request the greater sentence....