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The Future of the CD
Murdock037 writes "Nice read at the New York Times (free reg. req.) on the CD, and how it's getting crowded out of the marketplace by gaming and DVDs-- the basic conclusion is that music executives aren't rewarded for rocking the boat, and they wouldn't know how to do it if they were. (And included is a flabbergasting claim from RIAA head Hillary Rosen that only 3 percent of consumers polled are buying less music because prices are too high-- of course, you can come up with a statistic for anything, as 72.5% of all people know.)"
93% of all statistics are made up.
Numers are like people. Torture them enough and they will tell you everything.
There are lies, damm lies, and statistics.
I guess that the RIAA has aquired all three.
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Most analysts and industry executives agree that selling music online is the future.
When did this happen? Industry executives actually acknowledging the obvious? Now where'd those pigs go...
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I believe those cunning Japanese are working on an auto-reverse tape player as we speak!
YAW.
Your head of state is a corrupt weasel, I hope you're happy.
Seriously though, music piracy hurts the industry - every year the record companies make less money, and every year they are forced to recoup lost sales buy launching yet-another-crap-boyband. We must stop the proliferation of yet-another-crap-boyband if we want to save our souls from a fate worse than death: listening to yet-another-crap-boyband. Yet-another-crap-boyband extracts money from unsuspecting pre-teenage girls who have not yet discovered kazaa, much like yet-another-crap-girlband extracts money from unsuspecting teenage girls who worship them as their role-models. Im not saying boys are perfect, they are taken in by a similar vice - yet-another-crap-football-video-game and yet-another-crap-console. We must stop this now, buy music and video games before they release something more deadly than Leonardo Di Caprio films on DVD!
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I have said it before, and I will say it again...
I love Metalica. I have all their MP3s.
The RIAA has sucessfully made their own customers hate them, similar to Microsoft. When your customers think you are a schmuck, they don't feel too bad stealing from you. Of course, half the rappers ARE convicts. Don't be shocked if people break the law getting a copy of their latest songs. Its almost poetic justice.
Tequila: It's not just for breakfast anymore!
The other 97% have stopped buying them as the music sucks.
Or... it's becaus 97% of people don't pay for there music :)
Just download.
ALL consumers are buying fewer CDs due to higher prices. It's called the LAW OF DEMAND.
And to think, the marketing department is always trying to cut the economics requirements from their major..
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