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Music Industry Compared to Movie Industry
tgibson writes "The Denver Post has an article comparing the missteps of the recording industry to the movie industry's success with DVDs: 'The best-selling "Chicago" movie soundtrack is available on CD starting at $13.86. The actual movie, with the soundtrack songs included, of course, plus additional goodies ranging from deleted musical numbers to the director's interview and a "making-of" feature, can be had for precisely $2.12 more...'"
Pffft.
Ummmmm....I don't think we have a tax like that in America. That's why prices are so freaking high.
I think taxing is the answer. In Canada it seems to work quite well.
Of course I'm not expert, so take my opinions with a grain of salt.
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DIRTY HOOK-NOSED FUCKERS
CDs and DVDs wouldn't be so expensive if only you'd take some simple advice. STOP STEALING MOVIES AND MUSIC, ASSHOLES!
If you would stop stealing, you wouldn't have to bitch about prices being too high.
IF I EVER MEET YOU, I WILL KICK YOUR ASS!
I regularly buy $50-100 a week on DVDs. But most of them are anime, distributed by companies that generally don't support the MPAA or even put Macrovision on their discs.
To be quite honest, I would rather have cds of my entire music collection. When I purchase cds, I listen to them much more intently, I hear music the way it was intended in an album sense...When I burn a cd, it just doesn't feel the same.
So. Did you know that right now on usenet, you can get entire albums in lossless format, with cue sheets preserving the exact original track layout, including gaps, CD-Text info, etc., so you can burn a perfect copy? Usually they even include scans of the booklet and cover art, so if you have a nice printer you can fake the original case. Its only a matter of time before this kind of thing is everywhere. Its already a very manageable download on a decent broadband line.
If you priced cds at 5 bucks a pop, I would never download another song (aside from learning about a band to subsequently buy.)
But why bother if you can download the above? The record companies are in the impossible position of competing with free, perfect copies of their own products. There is NO way for them to survive, except through the enforcement of copyright laws, and the curbing of piracy. The encoding quality of most stuff on p2p right now is bad enough that there may actually be a short term spike in CD sales due to piracy, as people get bad rips of songs they like and then decide they want to hear it in higher quality. But the industry is thinking in terms of the long term, and considering that, what they are doing is exactly right.