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[new] Sharing, buying and copying (Avg. Score: none / Raters: 0) (#4)
by SamLiban on Fri Jun 20th, 2003 at 11:52:20 AM EURODISCORDIA TIME
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Where does one start, when the truth seems so obvious?
The sharing of music does not hinder the regular consumption (sales) of music!
During the early time of Napster and other p2p-models - before the hype made the RIAA notice and BMG buy Napster - the record industry sold more records than ever before.
Additionally, the applications made it possible to test new 'paths' of music, e.g. somebody with no knowledge about Jazz could surf and download different pieces and by this get to know artists, she/he would have otherwise never noticed - and guess what: Many have then bought the records!

On the other hand - the music industry is a slave-machine - we are penetrated with boy-groups, girl-groups, "bimbos", remakes, re-remakes and re-reremakes - and if that was not enough - many so called musicians are not more than actors, better employed actors - remember Milli Vanilli (at least here in Germany, it was a perceived as a slap in the face of the consumers, when it was revealed, that another group was doing the singing and Milli Vanilli only danced and moved lips...).
Have you ever thought about the ways the companies produce records - thats what they do - they produce. Therefore, it seems logical, that (since in our times people thinking of themselves as capitalists only envision short time periods - see the consequences of the "Share Holder Value" on the stocks) the industry turned from helping artists produce their individual art, to producing employees and using the same methods over and over again, minimizing the costs and (through the CD and other ways) maximizing the profit.
With the introduction of the CD the industry lost what ever was there - concerning its reputation.
I can only speak for Germany (where I live), but the prices for an album exploded from about 10-15$ to 20-25$. Since we all had computers at that time and the CD was a tool we used - we understood, that the CD cannot cost the record company more than us - thats less than 1$ - so where do those 19-24$ go? Why should anyone buy a car from a merchant, that obviously tricked you the last time you went there? Why do we have so many small but great labels (especially in "old Europe"), who sell music from artists again and are successfull doing so?
The truth is simple - and I will try to make it sound american:) - :
Dog your consumer and your consumer will dog you! Treat your consumer with respect and you will be respected.
The success of Apple proves it!

Take care and Hail Discordia!

sam

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