http://www.effectmatrix.com/Youtube_video_download_tool/index.htm

Because of the greed factor, the majority of material now emerging from places such as music are subpar in quality at best. Such was shown to be the case when teens offered a table full of music cds for free as payment for consultations in how to make music more appealing to their age group, refused in mass to take them up on it. Think about that, the major labels can’t give it away for free to the teenage group. What does that say for the future of paid music?

Piracy has existed beside games, music, movies, etc as one of the stables that will be traded on the net. Crap it was going on in the late 80’s. Games are still made and they are still here in business. So as usual, this drumming of everyone is in trouble is just more smoke and mirrors about how the industry isn’t wringing right down to the last penny all THEY THINK they should be getting. It’s not about market factors, it’s again about greed.

Just because a game is made or music is recorded, doesn’t guarantee a hit at the sales. No amount of assumption over such will ever make it so.

But I will tell you some things that file sharing places, such as TPB have done. They’ve made the bloated and filler stuffed album sales a near thing of the past. We have reverted back to the days of singles driven markets. Customers don’t want to pay for an album of trash for that one song. Nor do they want to pay the price of an album for it either for the same song. The scheme of charging far more than that one song, just to get it, is out the window.

Another thing file sharing has done is pretty much kill DRM. Why pay for music with inherent playback problems, stipulated by the majors, when you can do away with all that and get it for free as well? Piracy has shown to have a better market plan than the official stuff. People aren’t as foolish with money, they pretty much on the whole demand value from the goods for the money.

The problem comes in with the majors in they want a lions share of anything leaving no room for the end of the line business to have a profit margin as well. There is only so much the traffic will bear and the majors already have their end priced right to the break line. This 85-15% split leaves out the creator/artists from the real profits, keeping them in only the limelight. When’s the last time you tried to buy groceries with limelight? If the real true motive of the majors was the artists, the artists would not be in the position they are now. Nor would they be experimenting with cutting out majors and dealing directly with the public for sales, handling everything from marketing to distribution themselves. It tells exactly how the cake is cut and a bit about the process that the artists are beginning to sidestep the major vampire in the economical chain of music.

All of this has been made possible by file sharing sites, such as TPB. It has taken a large chunk of the bargaining power of the major players and removed it from the table. Such pressures are the only reason the majors are now looking at other ways to make a buck. They have been dragged kicking and screaming all the way. They’ve hollered wolf so much that I for one give no crecedence to anything they claim to say.

She should have said:
“The record companies are questionably losing potential sales”. The artists will continue to make money as they have for thousands of years, by PERFORMING.

And I have no sympathy for fatcat record bosses. They are becoming obsolete, and expect the public to provide them with an income irrespective of their anachronistic business models and the reality of the internet. Why should we have to account for their losses? We are not here to subsidise record companies!

I remember… the 80s and 90s. When art was art and the good things were paid for. But since then each technological advance forward the industry took a creative regression backwards and the bottom line became the only line. Greed destroys culture.

Since you are a RIAA/MPAA agent tell your master that we are comming for them that they have better to start running now because we shall not and will not tolerate parasites like you and them in our societies.

If I was you I will not be working for these pieces of garbage right now. So you have better to find yourself another job that will be useful to the society or you will go down with them.

Meanwhile you can you and your friends put yourself into a trashcan and please close the lid to prevent odor!

Thank you!

In short, piracy is at a staggering 92%, several publishers have gone under, small ones can’t get started and major ones are developing more and more for consoles, because it’s thankfully much harder to pirate those games.

The article also addresses the excuse of “they wouldn’t have bought it anyway”.

http://www.extremetech.com/article2/0,1697,2271706,00.asp