Comments on: Monetize the music ! http://www.p2pnet.net/story/11465 p2pnet.net - reader powered Wed, 01 Feb 2012 15:11:09 -0300 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Reader's Write http://www.p2pnet.net/story/11465/comment-page-1#comment-134492 Reader's Write Thu, 01 Mar 2007 07:03:16 +0000 #comment-134492 I'll start buying music the day Sony BMG go bankrupt... And the other 3 companies too. But no sooner! I’ll start buying music the day Sony BMG go bankrupt… And the other 3 companies too. But no sooner!

]]> By: Reader's Write http://www.p2pnet.net/story/11465/comment-page-1#comment-134487 Reader's Write Thu, 01 Mar 2007 00:23:13 +0000 #comment-134487 I've got a much better idea of what the muzakbigbiz should be spending time and money trying to figure out. What other industry they should all become a part of, as the muzak industry is already more than halfway through the S-bend. Just a little longer and it'll get all the way there, and we'll never have to worry about it again. Just think of the fun we'll have trying to convince our grandkids that such an industry actually existed, actually behaved in these ways, and for a while at least was actually commercially viable! Of course they'll never believe us. I mean, who would? I’ve got a much better idea of what the muzakbigbiz should be spending time and money trying to figure out.

What other industry they should all become a part of, as the muzak industry is already more than halfway through the S-bend. Just a little longer and it’ll get all the way there, and we’ll never have to worry about it again.

Just think of the fun we’ll have trying to convince our grandkids that such an industry actually existed, actually behaved in these ways, and for a while at least was actually commercially viable! Of course they’ll never believe us. I mean, who would?

]]> By: Reader's Write http://www.p2pnet.net/story/11465/comment-page-1#comment-134460 Reader's Write Wed, 28 Feb 2007 19:43:16 +0000 #comment-134460 I love how they blame the scapegoat of 'piracy' for lost sales. If they would just look around them (I know it's hard to do, but at least try), they would see that there are tons of other places where people are spending "entertainment" dollars, from video games, to movies, etc. It would help if major labels stop promoting sh!t bands. The bands that care make music for the music, not for the money, though money does help musicians to keep making music that they love. I love how they blame the scapegoat of ‘piracy’ for lost sales. If they would just look around them (I know it’s hard to do, but at least try), they would see that there are tons of other places where people are spending “entertainment” dollars, from video games, to movies, etc. It would help if major labels stop promoting sh!t bands. The bands that care make music for the music, not for the money, though money does help musicians to keep making music that they love.

]]> By: Reader's Write http://www.p2pnet.net/story/11465/comment-page-1#comment-134442 Reader's Write Wed, 28 Feb 2007 15:10:23 +0000 #comment-134442 "We need to get money flowing from consumers and get them used to paying for music again." - Sure if the price is set at a reasonable level, not as in the past where music was a cash cow. The music must also be available to the customer (not the consumer) as they want it. The customer also wants the music industry to stop its parasitic practices and to stop preying on artists. -"CD sales fell 23 percent worldwide between 2000 and 2006. Legal sales of digital songs aren't making up the difference either. Last year saw a 131 percent jump in digital sales, but overall the industry still saw about a 4 percent decline in revenue." Hmmm, couldn’t be that at this point most people have finished purchasing the CD's for the cassettes and records they already owned? That now that the customers have filled their own 'back catalogue’ of music they are now looking at the newly available music and not necessarily liking what they see? Can it be that DVD sales and video game sales have an effect on the amount of $ spent on music? Obviously not in the industries eyes, their still too filled with $ signs. "The view expressed at the conference is that Apple has maintained a stranglehold on the digital music industry by locking up iTunes music with DRM." -Let me guess, the industry thinks by putting M$ against Apple they will be in control. Silly suits! You'll never be in control if you insist on using DRM. You will be in the same predicament that you yourself had the artists in for so long. We know you like to deny it, but by controlling the means of distribution and airplay, you felt you had the right to take the giants share of the $, and treat our artists like crap, and YES you DID, so stop trying to deny it. Well now the DRM companies will control your means of distribution, and once you’re caught up it you'll be the sheep controlled by the DRM companies. "Sony BMG is working with technologists and retailers, and is constantly is looking for technological solutions to some of the industry's problems, he promised" - You mean new ways to screw the customer and the artists? Well, the customers aren’t particularly happy with your solutions, remember, that's why they turned to file sharing in the first place. “We need to get money flowing from consumers and get them used to paying for music again.”
- Sure if the price is set at a reasonable level, not as in the past where music was a cash cow. The music must also be available to the customer (not the consumer) as they want it.

The customer also wants the music industry to stop its parasitic practices and to stop preying on artists.

-”CD sales fell 23 percent worldwide between 2000 and 2006. Legal sales of digital songs aren’t making up the difference either. Last year saw a 131 percent jump in digital sales, but overall the industry still saw about a 4 percent decline in revenue.”

Hmmm, couldn’t be that at this point most people have finished purchasing the CD’s for the cassettes and records they already owned? That now that the customers have filled their own ‘back catalogue’ of music they are now looking at the newly available music and not necessarily liking what they see? Can it be that DVD sales and video game sales have an effect on the amount of $ spent on music? Obviously not in the industries eyes, their still too filled with $ signs.

“The view expressed at the conference is that Apple has maintained a stranglehold on the digital music industry by locking up iTunes music with DRM.”

-Let me guess, the industry thinks by putting M$ against Apple they will be in control. Silly suits! You’ll never be in control if you insist on using DRM. You will be in the same predicament that you yourself had the artists in for so long. We know you like to deny it, but by controlling the means of distribution and airplay, you felt you had the right to take the giants share of the $, and treat our artists like crap, and YES you DID, so stop trying to deny it. Well now the DRM companies will control your means of distribution, and once you’re caught up it you’ll be the sheep controlled by the DRM companies.

“Sony BMG is working with technologists and retailers, and is constantly is looking for technological solutions to some of the industry’s problems, he promised”

- You mean new ways to screw the customer and the artists? Well, the customers aren’t particularly happy with your solutions, remember, that’s why they turned to file sharing in the first place.

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