Comments on: Magnatune Song of the Song

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Mon, 05 Feb 2007 19:33:40 +0000

I think:
The reason they only hit the little people is because they are certain they really have NO case – and a bigger organization with money will call them on it.
The little people just pay the $3750 each and go away confused but happy thinking that they avoided a substantially larger judgment.
It is a hail-mary money grab as they lose control of the distribution.
And it acts as a fear tactic to make sure the public doesn’t feel good about wandering far from what they have laid out for us.

These guys have big lawyers and they know exactly what they are doing. If all of us on this type of website can figure it out, they can too.
They will keep it up as long as they are permitted to.

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Sat, 03 Feb 2007 03:12:17 +0000

This is one of the reasons I love P2Pnet. I see news articles that I would normally miss when using the more mainstream news sites. I’m actually listening to the current song of the day right now as I type this comment, and am really loving what I’m hearing. It is entirely possible that they have just gotten themselves two more customers today (the other being my wife).

I have to agree with the other two comments on this. I think Matt made a good point especially. Most assume, including myself, that music industry is blind, preferring to hide their collective head in the sand. But perhaps that isn’t the case at all. Perhaps they saw the writing on the wall a long time ago, long before anyone else did, likely as far back as the mid to late 90’s. Their actions are certainly of an industry gone completely mad. They go after your perfectly average family, most of whom can’t afford to defend themselves little alone pay a settlement fee, yet rarely bother going after big businesses and large for-profit piracy rings, where they could be making some real money and an actual difference. This has never made any sense to me, especially if greed is supposed to be their primary motivator as everyone claims it is. Leads me to believe that something more may be going on behind the scenes than we all realize.

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Fri, 02 Feb 2007 22:53:38 +0000

There’s LOTS of money to be made if you eliminate the middle-man.
Technology is helping us with that.

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Fri, 02 Feb 2007 22:44:59 +0000

Magnatune is the model upon which all other record labels will eventually have to model themselves after if they don’t want to become obsolete. We have already reached a stage where distribution is so rampant that we effectively don’t even need record labels anymore. In fact, the only reason I see the need for a label to exist in this day and age is to promote music, and that can now be done directly by those who actually make the music.

The majors know this. I have reason to believe that they figured this out before anyone else did. That’s why they are so protective of their old methods; it’s all they have left.