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Music Downloads = Expensive Concerts?
melonman writes "According to an article at BBC News, $250 tickets for the latest Madonna tour are the fault of P2P file sharing. 'Before the advent of illegal downloads, artists had an incentive to underprice their concerts, because bigger audiences translated into higher record sales, Professor Krueger argues. But now, he says, the link between the two products has been severed, meaning that artists and their managers need to make more money from concerts and feel less constrained in setting ticket prices.' And it seems David Bowie agrees. Is 'the fans always get fleeced' the rock industry's equivalent to Moore's Law?"
I wish i could fix my typo and score a 5
Personally, I blame high ticket prices on people illegally sneaking into concerts and stealing sound from legal concert-goers. I propose a system of Digital Concert Management, where all sound output is encrypted using a closed-source algorythm (and compressed to save bandwidth costs - 128kbs should be fine). Legal concert goers are then given headsets containing a Trusted Concert-Going Chip which decodes the compressed signal and plays back the audio through a complementary set of approved headphones. Of course, discussion of how to decrypt the signal, or even overhearing the encrypted signal without permission from the content producer, would be a criminal offence. Everybody wins!
Music Downloads = Expensive Concerts?
Well if you put it that way, of course it'll be true. This is a common mistake with the assignment operator. What you meant to say was "Music Downloads == Expensive Concerts?" This will test to see if the statement is true, then return.
She'd have to do way more than sing for $250...
Sad old women with pretense to British aristocracy.
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For that price you should get the seat in which your view is exclusively the tips of her pubes. Or more accurately - HER seat.
"We hate to do it, 'cause the fans really have enjoyed the other key signatures. But we can't afford black keys on our pianos anymore. Sorry. It's 'cause of piracy. So really it's the listeners' fault."
Please use RIAA radar to avoid giving these tools another cent, ever.
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Well, if that 5 is a typo and you meant to type a 1, then congratulations, you've succeeded.
The subsequent decrease in demand for concert tickets will be due to P2P too. Not the high prices. I'm sure they've got another professor that will completely agree. So it must be true.
Who ordered that?
And then there is, of course, good old fashioned greed.
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No no no - Every time you engage in illegal music downloading, God causes a barrel of oil to get lost in shipping; that's the reason for higher gas prices according to RIAA internal memo of Ms. Mia Bonus...
(What? It's no more absurd than some of the other insanity we hear from this group.)
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What is it with the Germans and they're complete lack of taste in music? First David Hasselhoff and now Madonna. What is wrong with those people?
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Just say no to irreversible processes!
Yes she did. She said that I must be "her lucky star".
True. But at the concert, someone else cleans up the mess.
... for the DVD of the concert to come out and P2P that.
Don't fight for your country, if your country does not fight for you.
Really, what concert is worth $250?!?!?!?! Especially with all the crap you have to put up with to go to it - parking, crowds, rude people. The last concert I went to made me realize how much I hate a concert. The guy next to me (and sort of in line with my view of the stage) was standing up dancing around with his butt in my face and flinging his arms in the air almost hitting me a couple of times. I asked him if he was going to stand up the whole concert. He turned to me and said, "Probably!" Well, I have a whistle that is about 135dB (with my fingers in my mouth, not an actual "device") At the end of the next two songs (with gayguy still dancing around) when everyone was screaming at the top of their lungs, I whistled the very loudest I could. They guy then got up and moved, and I stopped whistling. the rest of the concert was much better. Still, having to resort to that made me regret going to concerts.
God, she's right! What the fuck was I thinking downloading her shitty album? I'll never make THAT mistake again...
I'll form my OWN solar system! With blackjack! And hookers!
Gee, I thought the $250 ticket price was the fault of the artists thinking their presence was worth $20,000 a night, combined with the music being so lame they need 200 support people and 4 million dollars worth of equipment to make the concert be a memorable experience.
They could replace all that money with some talent and still put on shows.