"We haven't noticed any real decline. Our business has been pretty consistent."
"There's definitely been an effect, but not an intense one. We've probably seen the most effect on singles sales."
"The majority of my friends buy their CDs online. If the study says the music stores near the colleges have seen a drop in sales, that doesn't mean that college students are not buying records."
"It costs major labels less than $1 to make a Pearl Jam album, but the list prices are nearly $20. They've precipitated this themselves--it's ridiculous. The major label companies are (run by) extremely evil people; I'm sorry, but there's no other way to say it."
Quotes from RIAA and friends:
"It looks like Napster clearly has an impact on sales in the U.S. Coincident with the arrival of MP3 and Napster, these sales take a pretty severe dip downwards."
"The findings come as no surprise and confirm our worst fears. This demonstrates the importance of protecting artists' rights on the Internet."
Quote from the article:
The drop in college music store sales was more pronounced in 1998 than in 1999--a year before Napster was written, released and began spreading quickly across college campuses.
Reunion of Colombine and Oklahoma, lets blame something for all the violence we're hearing about. Oh, we haven't used video games in a while, let's use that. Good idea.
Rambus is floundering because they thought that they could ride the Intel gravy train all the way to the bank. While innovative a year ago, Rambus is getting slow and fat from eating off of Intel's plate for too long. When will companies learn to never stop innovating?
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Quotes from store managers and students:
"We haven't noticed any real decline. Our business has been pretty consistent."
"There's definitely been an effect, but not an intense one. We've probably seen the most effect on singles sales."
"The majority of my friends buy their CDs online. If the study says the music stores near the colleges have seen a drop in sales, that doesn't mean that college students are not buying records."
"It costs major labels less than $1 to make a Pearl Jam album, but the list prices are nearly $20. They've precipitated this themselves--it's ridiculous. The major label companies are (run by) extremely evil people; I'm sorry, but there's no other way to say it."
Quotes from RIAA and friends:
"It looks like Napster clearly has an impact on sales in the U.S. Coincident with the arrival of MP3 and Napster, these sales take a pretty severe dip downwards."
"The findings come as no surprise and confirm our worst fears. This demonstrates the importance of protecting artists' rights on the Internet."
Quote from the article:
The drop in college music store sales was more pronounced in 1998 than in 1999--a year before Napster was written, released and began spreading quickly across college campuses.
Come to your own conclusions.
Not that I do go on IRC...
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Ok, then we should pass a law that only lets people who are semi-intelligent or greater play violent video games.
Pay-Per-View is one thing I am not sure will make the transition to the web.
In the long run, all books will eventually be online.
In the long, long run all, paper books will have withered away.
In the long, long, long run, none of this will matter because the apocalypse will have happened.
Rambus is floundering because they thought that they could ride the Intel gravy train all the way to the bank. While innovative a year ago, Rambus is getting slow and fat from eating off of Intel's plate for too long. When will companies learn to never stop innovating?