Want to Fight Piracy?
Three words: Subscription based music!!
The record industry has been stuck in the past, they believe music is a physical object; a CD, record, tape, or DVD which you can only buy in the store. If music is a physical object, then what am I downloading off the internet? A bunch of 1's and 0's which happen to be in a certain order resembling music? If the record industry wants to get with the times and profit off internet based distribution, it MUST turn to subscription based music.
Much like television today, subscription based distribution collects fees from all users, which in turn goes to the producers of the content; artists, personalities, and technical support. The infrastructure and business model for this scenario is available today and can be implemented with the support of the record industry.
Don't even get me started on the record breaking CD sales since MP3's came out (exposure and advertising is a good thing!); and how artists themselves make far more money off concerts than the measly cut from CD sales.
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And when the service goes under, or I decide I can't afford it anymore? Do I own any of the music I've been enjoying for the last months or years?
My dad still has all of his favourite albums from the 60's; there is still some inherent value in 'owning' music in one format or another.
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I think piracy is the best business model for music, at least from the consumer's point of view... We all get free music and the chance to easily browse and explore new genre's, and artists get... well... the chance to have their music heard by millions of people :) and live off food stamps...
oh well, at least we're happy...
Posted by
Yeah I like downloading tunes to sample shit out, but the fact of the matter is: MP3s sound feeble on a good system, so if the music is good enough I will buy the cd anyway.
So hey there Jon, how the hell are ya? Pragmatic reformist, I'm feeling the need for some of your impractical gongist beliefs! Like:
how is the job?
how is the car?
how is the bar?
what else have you been up to?
take care of it in the meantime!!
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Will it work on all devices? I need Slimserver to use it, and to put lossy versions on my DAP, which has no DRM support, and if one in the future does, it will not be used, unless the system is open and allows for fair use in its design.
Will it work on all OSes, with any software?
Will it be 44.1/16 or better? Lossy is what I make, not what I buy; because I can fit more music in 1GB at ~200kbps than than at ~850 kbps (typical FLAC).
Is there any chance the studio folk might get more respect, time, training, and pay? I want dynamic range! If recordings were made better, and a fair bit of that went to those who can make it happen, I would be less put off by current prices. I hate getting an album with a good performance, and shitty production/mixing/mastering.
Will they accept that we share music, and either integrate it into the cost, of have a mild per-copy fee? If it was $1-2 per CD or so (remember, this is pure profit!), I'd not complain, honestly.
They know that small-scale piracy helps them--they want to stop p2p (and for some reaosn, they don't care about the flea market guys, making money off of it).
However, we're talking about giant corporations, which have histories of stagnation and death in the face of change. If they fail, I will only mourn if their catalogs aren't bought and released again by whatever succeeds them :).
Posted by
hoi
» Post a Commentmusic is more popular than his Bush, Global warming posts...hah
why doesn't anyone care about tv shows posted on the web?
it's because advertisers already paid for them
whoever's supposed to make money off cd's is losing out cuz people're are sharing on a scale of 10000000000's
instead of charging 1-2$ per song, better to charge a monthly service fee