Teenagers abandon CDs
p2pnet news | Music:- The mainstrteam media make the same mistake over and over again. They persist in discussing Apple’s iTunes as thought it’s an important factor when it comes to online digital music.
It may have a certain relevance with respect to Warner Music, EMI, Vivendi Universal and Sony BMG’s cockamamie sue ‘em all business plan, but that’s where it ends.
Otherwise, iTunes has little significance in the real world of online music where billions of music files move computer to computer every hour of every day with zero assistance from any of the corporate ’services’.
Big 4 shareholders should be raking in as they draw percentages from this huge traffic. But the people who run labels are instead using their RIAAs, CRIAs, ARIAs, and the other so-called trade associations, strategically sited around the world, in extremely expensive and utterly wasted efforts to crush P2P file sharing and P2P file sharers who are, at the end of the day, the people used to be their customers.
"For the first time last year, nearly half of all teenagers bought no compact discs, a dramatic increase from 2006, when 38% of teens shunned such purchases, according to a new report released Tuesday," says the Los Angeles Times, going on:
"The illegal sharing of music online continued to soar in 2007, but there was one sign of hope that legal downloading was picking up steam. In the last year, Apple Inc.’s iTunes store, which sells only digital downloads, jumped ahead of Best Buy Co. to become the No. 2 U.S. music seller, trailing Wal-Mart Stores Inc.
"That could be hopeful news for the music industry, which has been scrambling in recent years to replace its rapidly disappearing CD sales with music sold online. The number of CDs sold in the U.S. fell 19% in 2007 from the previous year while sales of digital songs jumped 45%, Nielsen SoundScan said."
And until the labels lower their prices, open their catalogues and stop treating the people who keep them alive as potential criminals and thieves out to rob them blind, the situation won’t change.
Also See:
Los Angeles Times – More teenagers ignoring CDs, report says, February 27, 2008
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February 27th, 2008 at 11:05 am
DO NOT BUY ANY THING FROM THE FOUR MAJOR PLEASE!
February 27th, 2008 at 11:10 am
Every money you give to these parasites will be money they will use to extort someone.
No money for the pigs!
They are melting melting melting! The boycott is working and expending. The faster it expend the soonner they will go out of business the least people they will hurt.
Do your part as a good citizen! Tell your friends, your collegues your class mates no the feed the parasites!
February 27th, 2008 at 3:35 pm
Teenagers abandon CD’s
Shit I’m 32 and I haven’t bought a CD in almost 10 years.
They are a waist of money and they are bad for the Enviornment.
The polution caused by CD printing and the impact they have on landfills should make them illegal.
I think the RIAA should have to pay carbon tax for every CD they make and consumers should get carbon credits for every song they download (regardless of whether it was legal or not)
and for the record I am not a tree hugger, I’m just using the “going green” aggainst the RIAA
also for the record I hate WordPress
February 27th, 2008 at 5:38 pm
Why buy CDs when you can fit your music collection onto a Blu-ray?
February 27th, 2008 at 6:48 pm
Why buy a Blu-Ray is even a bigger question
February 28th, 2008 at 7:53 pm
I like the article. But I wish you would stop picking on the company stockholders. As a long-term investor myself, I can tell you these corporations are being run for the benefit of the executives, not for the shareholders. In fact most shareholders are getting just as screwed by these thugs as the artists and the public, with their hundred million dollar salaries and golden parachutes. I tell you anyone who buys stocks in these companies is going to LOSE money as they alienate their customers, destroy their businesses, and pay themselves millions for the privilege.
Read “Battle for the Soul of Capitalism” by John Bogle and you’ll see what a mockery of a real capitalist economy we have become…
February 29th, 2008 at 4:50 pm
Just a question:
Has anybody ever actually thought up a way to have the “big media cartels” (who make the content possible) “rake in a percentage” from p2p traffic?
I mean, let’s be honest here: one of the biggest “arguments” you see in favor of p2p boils down to “why pay for crap when you can get it for free?” It’s exceedingly unlikely that p2p advocates WOULD actually bother with “legitimate” downloading, even if such downloading were of non-DRMed files. Y’know why?
They just want stuff for free. That’s the ONLY reason p2p as we know it was even invented (Shawn fanning’s whole purpose for making Napster was so he could find other people’s mp3 collections.)
So no, the “pure-hearted” anti-corporate p2p folks are exceedingly unlikely to ever actually PAY for music, even if the price is lowered to what they consider “reasonable”.
And, Mr. “Cd’s should be illegal to protect the environment”: fuck “the environment”, okay? Eco-nonsense has become the quickest and most sure-fire way to oppress people, and if you dare question it, you’re just a “corporate shill” (similar to how anyone who dares besmirch p2p leeches is is deemed to be an “RIAA troll”.
Go back to your crackpipe, Newton, and stop trying to defend the indefensible.