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p2pnet news view | RIAA News:- Presidential candidate Barack Obama has a whole slew of new and revolutionary ideas, one of which should be taken seriously by the major record companies.
It’s this >>>
In a good business, the customer is king.
But as far as the Big 4 labels, Vivendi Universal, EMI, Warner Music and Sony BMG, are concerned customers are “criminals” and “thieves” to be disrespected and treated with contempt.
And actually, Obama’s observation, which comes in the June 16 print edition of Time, isn’t new.
The phrase the customer is always right was mooted by Harry Gordon Selfridge, founder of Selfridge’s department store in London, England, in 1909.
But, say music cartel policies, the axiom doesn’t apply in the digital 21st century, if it ever did apply.
These days, according to them, the customer is always shite.
If the customer is ever wrong, re-read rule #1
“Stew Leonard’s … is a small chain of supermarkets in Connecticut and New York that Ripley’s Believe It or Not! has deemed ‘The World’s Largest Dairy’ and that Fortune Magazine has deemed one of the top ‘100 Best Companies to Work For’!” - says the Wikipedia, going on:
“In 2004, Tom Leonard, son of the founder, also opened a spinoff store, Tom Leonard’s Farmer’s Market, in the Short Pump section of Henrico County, Virginia (suburban Richmond).”
The store is also known for its customer-service policy, which greets shoppers at each store entrance with this message etched into a three-ton rock:
1. The customer is always right.
2. If the customer is ever wrong, re-read rule #1.
The cartels have created for themselves huge mountains of customer ill will.
They might have gotten away with it before the Net came along. But these days people can, and do, use blogs, IM, cell phones, web pages and all the other communications technologies of this digital era to bypass, if not completely ignore, the traditional corporate news and information media.
Customers with free will
A primary reason Obama is so successful is: he’s come to understand the importance of the Net as the way to reach people not only in the US, but around the world.
In the 21st century, consumers are steadily being replaced by customers with free will who know what they want and who are no longer willing to be treated like mushrooms —- kept in the dark and fed on bullshit.
And it’s still possible for the corporate music and movie industries to turn things around.
All they have to do is start treating their customers as reasonable people who deserve the best, not the worst.
But the chances of that happening grow slimmer by the day and in the meanwhile, customers are not only right, they know it.
Three years ago, in a Q&A with Slyck, “One way or another, p2p technologies will be the primary backbone for communications in this century,” I said, going on >>>
Thousands of new people are going online every day meaning for the first time in history, ‘we’ have a voice ‘they’ have to listen to.
Look at what’s happening in the entertainment industry, for example. They’re going blue trying to avoid the issues, but they’ll eventually be forced to acknowledge their customers as active participants rather than mindless cash-cows.
Moreover, the companies and governments forget the people they’re threatening in various ways are also the ones who are conceiving, developing, servicing and administering the very systems which keep the wheels turning and the money coming in.
Cheers! And if you’re in the US, have a great time celebrating Independence Day 
Jon Newton - p2pnet
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July 3rd, 2008 at 1:52 pm
Sorry but that was a terrible comparison. Move along, nothing to read here, just another mindless plug for Obama.
July 3rd, 2008 at 3:03 pm
Actually, I think it is an excellent comparison.
HC thought she had the nomination in the bag.
She forgot about just how FAST info goes around on the net.
She forgot the ‘Net never forgets.
Every lie was found out usually minutes after she spoke it.
Every denial was met with a link to a youtube video of her .. saying
what she denied.
Mr. Obama uses the internet to spread word of his policies and counter the
rumor mills .. and to pont to where ther rumors can be proven to be lies.
Using the internet .. Actively .
Use the internet well and wisely, ignore it at your peril.
HC=RIAA
Obama= ????
Time will tell.
July 3rd, 2008 at 3:21 pm
Great article! Well said Hippie
July 3rd, 2008 at 5:32 pm
You are right but the record companies have the finances and media control which will allow them to continue to misinform the majority of the population, in other words, those who are not internet account holders.
July 3rd, 2008 at 5:33 pm
Obama uses the internet…so he can use YOU! He is a politician:by definition a person saying exactly what you want to hear to get your vote. When the win happens then the money factor kicks in and you are all but forgotten in the mad dash for cash. And since the Hollywood gang has all the cash it turns out to be their big win. You’ll see this when he demands that all American trading partners ratify ACTA within six months of his inauguration.
July 3rd, 2008 at 7:28 pm
” You’ll see this when he demands that all American trading partners ratify ACTA within six months of his inauguration. ”
Ok, WHEN he is inaugurated, we’ll see
Bush has PROVEN to be worse.
McCain has also PROVEN to be worse.
As a person who has NEVER voted anything but third party since I was old enough to vote,
I have enough confidence in Mr. Obama to be willing to take that risk.
I am not alone in this.
There are MANY third party voters like me who are finally willing to risk a major party candidate.
Talking points and bullshit won’t mislead us. We read, research and investigate, and still, Mr Obama
shows the strongest. As for ACTA, well .. one of goebbels tactics was to take what YOUR candidate will do
and claim that the opponent will do it. Obama MAY wish to ratify ACTA, but McCain Definitely will, regardless
of anyones wishes.
Paranoid fear is no longer going to manipulate me, or anyone else with a mind.
nice try though .. OOOGA BOOOGA
July 3rd, 2008 at 7:29 pm
@ Michael (Why did you delete my post Jon?
)
I said this is not about what Barak will do or not do if he is president. It is that the big music business now is in big trouble because consumers can connect with each other.
July 3rd, 2008 at 7:40 pm
” I said this is not about what Barak will do or not do if he is president. It is that the big music business now is in big trouble because consumers can connect with each other. ”
You’re absolutely right Paulus. That is what this thread is about.
The same applies to politics, big business, etc ..
ANY business or politician concerned about hiding their secrets or misleading the public are
in big trouble because EVERYONE can connect with each other and sort out the fact from fiction.
That’s why net neutrality is so important. Michael is trying to threadjack this tread and turn it into
a political pissing contest, but it is realted in that the half truths are so easy to research.
Start here.
http://www.barackobama.com/index.php
a lot of questions are answered about Mr Obama’s stances on the ISSUES.
If you don’t want to believe him, that’s fine.
But ask yourself, if ALL of them lie, what make you think McCain is being any more truthful ?
As I said, after seeing such a downhill slide over these many years, I am willing to risk the
possibility that this man IS genuine, and I am far from alone.
I won’t take this thread any further off track. and I will no longer
respond to any more political trolling in this thread.
July 3rd, 2008 at 8:08 pm
Sorry Paulus. I was killing spam and I must have accidentally deleted your last post.
But you’re right — “big music business now is in big trouble because consumers can connect with each other”.
Stay tuned
Cheers!
July 4th, 2008 at 12:36 am
I have adopted a “wait, and see” attitude where this three-ringed circus known as politics is concerned. Who ever wins the presidentship will be exposed to power, and authority on a scale they have never seen before. So we’ll see how they are in 3 months after taking office, and see if they still have the trust, and respect of the people, or they have given in to the power, and money offered by the big record labels, and the RIAA. Remember the saying “Power corrupts, and absolute power corrupts absolutely”.