Comments on: The 99c question http://www.p2pnet.net/story/6640 p2pnet.net - reader powered Thu, 08 Jan 2009 08:53:52 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.2.1 By: Reader's Write http://www.p2pnet.net/story/6640#comment-22689 Reader's Write Fri, 21 Oct 2005 19:12:47 +0000 http://www.p2pnet.net/story/6640#comment-22689 I suggest people to check http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,1895,1862166,00.asp out. Its a column by John C. Dvorak (hated by many, loved by some, I just find his columns funny to read). He argues that its not about the profit, as there is none, or about setting a precedent of songs more expensive than a buck a song. He argues its (again) about killing off 3rd party initiatives just to gain 100% control of the distibution cycle. Of course chances of anyone proving his theory are slim to none, but it does fit in a certain scheme that shows in other lines too... All I know is, I haven´t ever bought music online and I (probably) never will. I suggest people to check http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,1895,1862166,00.asp out. Its a column by John C. Dvorak (hated by many, loved by some, I just find his columns funny to read). He argues that its not about the profit, as there is none, or about setting a precedent of songs more expensive than a buck a song. He argues its (again) about killing off 3rd party initiatives just to gain 100% control of the distibution cycle.

Of course chances of anyone proving his theory are slim to none, but it does fit in a certain scheme that shows in other lines too…

All I know is, I haven´t ever bought music online and I (probably) never will.

]]> By: Reader's Write http://www.p2pnet.net/story/6640#comment-22541 Reader's Write Wed, 19 Oct 2005 12:26:33 +0000 http://www.p2pnet.net/story/6640#comment-22541 Something I wrote on the value of a song; http://wheel.blogs.com/kesho/2005/10/what_is_a_song_.html <a href="http://wheel.blogs.com/kesho/2005/10/what_is_a_song_.html">Click here</a> Something I wrote on the value of a song;

http://wheel.blogs.com/kesho/2005/10/what_is_a_song_.html

<a href=”http://wheel.blogs.com/kesho/2005/10/what_is_a_song_.html”>Click here</a>

]]> By: Reader's Write http://www.p2pnet.net/story/6640#comment-22514 Reader's Write Wed, 19 Oct 2005 02:39:31 +0000 http://www.p2pnet.net/story/6640#comment-22514 quote: "fans buy what they hear on the radio and see on TV." This one part of a sentence deserves a bit of looking into. The author of this article sees it as business. He doesn't care if anyone makes a profit in the process but he does care about killing the golden goose. He also makes mention that timing of price increases is more critical to him than "if it should" be raised. What is coming out of radio and tv is very simular to what is coming out of the media cartels. After all for the most part they are the same groups in both of them. When a business loses touch with what its customers want, when a business forgets that the customer and not themselves determine the well being of the industry, and when it loses the idea that keeping the customer happy with the purchase is on par with long term survival; they are up for a belt tightening in the economic circles. The media cartels have been hell bent on control and have ever since they became big. AM radio at one time was "the place" to hear new music to determine if that one tune was worth buying as a single. Then payolla hit the scene and that hearing of new music was strangled for the sake of replay. Folks got tired of the on going commercials, the steady replay over and over, and the lack of new material on a regular basis. Literally, the public abandoned AM in favor of FM that was still new and didn't have payolla going to the extent it is now. (Does any of this sound like it could apply to tv also? Just replace tunes with movies and shows.) I got tired of tv for that very reason. Know what? I have a tv, but no antenna, no cable, no satellite reception. As things are now, I plan for it to stay that way. There is nothing on pay tv that is worth the money being charged. As a customer I have lost interest in tv because of the steady commercial and replay. We won't even get into the subject of content. So what happens when I am not a front runner in trends but merely another echoing the publics resentment to the hijacking of the entertainment for the sake of money? Where then comes the new exposure to fuel the purchase as this author seems to think exists now? Overcharging to the point of all the traffic will bear has consequences. Any first term would be economist can tell you that. There is a direct relation to charging more equals less sales. That point has already been reached. DRM infested material isn't worth what uninfested material is worth. DRM exists for the sole purpose of limiting the buyer in what he can do with his purchase. So much so that for the buyer to do anything he wishes with his purchase and apply it to his style of life, he will either have to become a criminal or worse become what the industry wants to label as pirate in order to take his music with him or store it as he would wish. It has become such a limitation to the buyer that many such as myself won't buy for that one reason alone. Anytime you make a product that puts extreme requirements on the buyer to make use of it, you have far less happy customers. You also have those at some point that refuse to continue to jump through the hoops to do so. Now that the cartels have managed to kill off the source of hearing fresh and new sources, decided to sue their very best customers, and want to charge out the yang yang for what limited product they do get; is it any wonder folks are not showing up in masses at the pay for sites? quote:
“fans buy what they hear on the radio and see on TV.”

This one part of a sentence deserves a bit of looking into. The author of this article sees it as business. He doesn’t care if anyone makes a profit in the process but he does care about killing the golden goose. He also makes mention that timing of price increases is more critical to him than “if it should” be raised.

What is coming out of radio and tv is very simular to what is coming out of the media cartels. After all for the most part they are the same groups in both of them. When a business loses touch with what its customers want, when a business forgets that the customer and not themselves determine the well being of the industry, and when it loses the idea that keeping the customer happy with the purchase is on par with long term survival; they are up for a belt tightening in the economic circles.

The media cartels have been hell bent on control and have ever since they became big. AM radio at one time was “the place” to hear new music to determine if that one tune was worth buying as a single. Then payolla hit the scene and that hearing of new music was strangled for the sake of replay. Folks got tired of the on going commercials, the steady replay over and over, and the lack of new material on a regular basis. Literally, the public abandoned AM in favor of FM that was still new and didn’t have payolla going to the extent it is now. (Does any of this sound like it could apply to tv also? Just replace tunes with movies and shows.)

I got tired of tv for that very reason. Know what? I have a tv, but no antenna, no cable, no satellite reception. As things are now, I plan for it to stay that way. There is nothing on pay tv that is worth the money being charged. As a customer I have lost interest in tv because of the steady commercial and replay. We won’t even get into the subject of content. So what happens when I am not a front runner in trends but merely another echoing the publics resentment to the hijacking of the entertainment for the sake of money? Where then comes the new exposure to fuel the purchase as this author seems to think exists now?

Overcharging to the point of all the traffic will bear has consequences. Any first term would be economist can tell you that. There is a direct relation to charging more equals less sales. That point has already been reached. DRM infested material isn’t worth what uninfested material is worth. DRM exists for the sole purpose of limiting the buyer in what he can do with his purchase. So much so that for the buyer to do anything he wishes with his purchase and apply it to his style of life, he will either have to become a criminal or worse become what the industry wants to label as pirate in order to take his music with him or store it as he would wish. It has become such a limitation to the buyer that many such as myself won’t buy for that one reason alone. Anytime you make a product that puts extreme requirements on the buyer to make use of it, you have far less happy customers. You also have those at some point that refuse to continue to jump through the hoops to do so.

Now that the cartels have managed to kill off the source of hearing fresh and new sources, decided to sue their very best customers, and want to charge out the yang yang for what limited product they do get; is it any wonder folks are not showing up in masses at the pay for sites?

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