Their way of doing business is dead as we know it. Look at the PC gaming industry. For years they have tried to combat piracy and what have they learned? Piracy will prevail no matter what, so in turn they had to improvise.
For example, Blizzard and Warcraft3. One can copy the CD and play, but in order to really take advantage and play to the fullest, one needs a unique CD key in order to enter Battlenet - their onlinge gaming system. So people have an incentive to buy the CD.
Now lets take a look at a plain music CD. Hell it just has music in stereo sound! Why would I want to buy it (apart from moral and supporting the artist issues), when I can just download the music. The music industry needs to give us incentives. Lets say: videos,lyrics, artist info, additional surround sound formats etc. Hell, maybe a unique cd key to let us enter a site to download more music from this artist.
My 2 cents
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Their way of doing business is dead as we know it. Look at the PC gaming industry. For years they have tried to combat piracy and what have they learned? Piracy will prevail no matter what, so in turn they had to improvise. For example, Blizzard and Warcraft3. One can copy the CD and play, but in order to really take advantage and play to the fullest, one needs a unique CD key in order to enter Battlenet - their onlinge gaming system. So people have an incentive to buy the CD. Now lets take a look at a plain music CD. Hell it just has music in stereo sound! Why would I want to buy it (apart from moral and supporting the artist issues), when I can just download the music. The music industry needs to give us incentives. Lets say: videos ,lyrics, artist info, additional surround sound formats etc. Hell, maybe a unique cd key to let us enter a site to download more music from this artist.
My 2 cents