Slashdot Mirror
EMI Exec Says 'The Music CD is Dead'
Anonycat writes "Alain Levy, the chairman of EMI Music, made a speech at the London Business School declaring 'the end of the music CD as it is.' He went on to say that most CDs are simply used for ripping onto digital audio players. Levy adds that by the beginning of 2007, all EMI CDs will come with additional material to make them more attractive to the consumer. Revenue from CDs still outranks revenue from downloads by better than 6 to 1. Would it take 'additional material' to get you to keep buying CDs? What material would you like to see?"
$100 bills would be pretty frickin' cool
Why rootkits and virii for my computer of course!
"The way we can tell it's C# instead of Haskell is because it's nine lines instead of two." -- wadler
Anything that's not DRM'd.
I know, what are the chances of that, huh? On the other hand, what's the point in including extra fluff that's DRM'd in a package where the primarily content isn't DRM'd? "Here's the cake you ordered, sir. And to thank you for your patronage, we've included a bonus poisoned pill. It's sugary though, yum!" "Umm, thanks... I'll just eat the cake."
The Musical-Idolatry Complex already controls me completely, just like Hunter S. Eisenhower predicted.
It feeds me proto-literate lyrics, expertly Photoshopped images of poseurs, titillating videos that don't make any sense, the instrumental talent of digitized samples and vocal harmonizers, and -- if I can afford it -- maybe a ticket to a lip-synched World Tour performance with a team of 30 dancers and some fireworks.
People who download music miss all of this. They aren't cool. They hurt the Artists.
That's why Mariah Carey made "Glitter", you bastards. She was hurt.
Rich And Stupid is not so bad as Working For Rich And Stupid.
We would still be paying Ogg for the patent on that wheel thing
I'm pretty sure Ogg would want it to be unpatented...
How about a singing goatse?
Or a goatse-tubgirl duet, in B-fart major. Barrrrf.
Seven puppies were harmed during the making of this post.
Heck I can do that right now! Who is bloc party?
"Personal ownership is a hallmark of conservative capitalism. And I don't believe I am entitled to anything that I did n
From the article:
...all EMI CDs will come with additional material to make them more attractive to the consumer.
;)
Isn't that all was Sony was trying to do, give you some free software when you bought their CDs?
Tequila: It's not just for breakfast anymore!
Not only that, but my records used to skip like a bitch when I played them in the car.
Gamingmuseum.com: Give your 3D accelerator a rest.
Oh come on. The codec programmers don't need that kind of FLAC.
You're probably being sarcastic but I'll offer this link anyways:
http://flac.sourceforge.net/
A typical album is around 45 minutes of music, let's call it about 410 MB. That's 410,000 MB
The trip is 2780.82 miles, so At 20 MPG and $2/gallon, the transfer will cost $278.08, or $100 per MB of data.
Sorry, but 410,000MB (410GB) that costs $278.08 to transfer is $0.000678/MB, or about $0.68/GB. Your $100/MB is only about a factor of 150,000 too high on the cost. Nice try, though.
The difference between this and a physical CD is the protective cover containing album art. My proposal is simple- a lossless audio codec that contains the album art as a wrapper to the file. We'll it "the FLAC jacket".