"It looks like Napster clearly has an impact on sales in the U.S.," said John Schwarz, CEO of digital rights management firm Reciprocal, which commissioned the study, released yesterday. "Coincident with the arrival of MP3 and Napster, these sales take a pretty severe dip downwards."
"The nearly 20% growth in list dollars that the industry experienced over the last two years is a clear indication that despite the ever-increasing competition for the consumer's entertainment dollar, music has an intrinsic value that touches Americans -- they love their music and they want more," --Hilary Rosen, the RIAA's President and CEO.
My feeling the only people profiting from Napster are the lawyers who are fabricating loads of BS in the interest of the poor 'ol record companies. Geez...
I'm a casual EQ player (5-10 hours per week) and I have to think that Sony'sa announcement is a good thing. The market for Everquest characters and items on ebay is huge. This affects the game balance considerably. There are people who have NEVER played EQ who can go out and buy a nice Level 50 Wizard on ebay. All of the sudden, they can enter some of the most difficult zones in the game without a clue about what they are doing. Then they die and lose all their stuff and complain to the GMs. The GMs have to sort through so much crap everyday that those of us with real bugs to report have to wait in line.
On the names thing, I've seen plenty of stupid ones, like "Bandedforsale", "Saddamhussein", "Comenme". Its ridiculous. Verant has name filters that catch the really bad stuff when someone creates a character, but people get really creative and can slip some stuff past. EQ was designed to be a roleplaying game, not an AOL chatroom.
Eq is a cool game, and highly addictive for some people. I know people that play 50 hours a week. But there are plenty of inconsiderate jerks who play just as much. They are the ones ruining the game. Not Verant.
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I'd just buy 3 or 4 new guitars.
What are your artists/musicians/clients are saying about online file-trading? Love it? Hate it? 50-50?
Do you find that indie artists are more likely to embrace file trading for marketing/name-recognition purposes than well-known artists?
From the Yahoo story:
Having a look at 1999 Yearend Market Report on US Recorded Music Shipments, there is a quote from the President and CEO of the RIAA which states:
My feeling the only people profiting from Napster are the lawyers who are fabricating loads of BS in the interest of the poor 'ol record companies.
Geez...
I'm a casual EQ player (5-10 hours per week) and I have to think that Sony'sa announcement is a good thing. The market for Everquest characters and items on ebay is huge. This affects the game balance considerably. There are people who have NEVER played EQ who can go out and buy a nice Level 50 Wizard on ebay. All of the sudden, they can enter some of the most difficult zones in the game without a clue about what they are doing. Then they die and lose all their stuff and complain to the GMs. The GMs have to sort through so much crap everyday that those of us with real bugs to report have to wait in line.
On the names thing, I've seen plenty of stupid ones, like "Bandedforsale", "Saddamhussein", "Comenme". Its ridiculous. Verant has name filters that catch the really bad stuff when someone creates a character, but people get really creative and can slip some stuff past. EQ was designed to be a roleplaying game, not an AOL chatroom.
Eq is a cool game, and highly addictive for some people. I know people that play 50 hours a week. But there are plenty of inconsiderate jerks who play just as much. They are the ones ruining the game. Not Verant.
Cool! I'm a Druid. What server is he on?