Comments on: Warner Music in trouble

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Sat, 29 Jul 2006 13:02:29 +0000

the Big Four can go suck on this:

http://www.boingboing.net/2004/03/29/empirical_data_on_fi.html

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Tue, 09 May 2006 17:43:11 +0000

The scoop:

http://dealbook.blogs.nytimes.com/?p=2734

Warner Music was purchased Time Warner in March 2004 for $2.6 billion.

EMI Group of Britain has recently offered to buy Warner Music for $4.2 billion. If the offer is taken it would mean a profit of $1.6 billion in about two years.

Is Warner Music a piracy ravaged company on the brink of collapse?
Of course not, business for the shareholders, who are in the investment business, not the music business, is greater than ever.

The piracy and loss figures are simply justification for stronger copyright laws so that the shareholders can make even more money.

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Mon, 08 May 2006 16:18:28 +0000

“We did it, but we’re not sure if we’ll get caught”

We did it, but we’re not sure if we’ll get caught or if e can hire the lawyers that connect to and buy the judges”.

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Mon, 08 May 2006 15:20:35 +0000

“We did it, but we’re not sure if we’ll get caught”.

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Sun, 07 May 2006 17:48:44 +0000

99.9% of the time, corporations “don’t comment on pending lawsuits”. This is nothing but PR to make investors and bureaucrats think they are under frivolous assault. Poor Warner, let’s all jump to their rescue…

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Sun, 07 May 2006 17:18:35 +0000

This story, a good one, shows how record companies give made up numbers to their constituents, be it shareholders, artists, songwriters, legislators, etc.

Then how can their black room royalty payment calculations for artists and songwriters be trusted?

Beware artists. You may too be getting made up numbers from the record companies, be it Warner or the others.

Rafael Venegas
http://www.gvenegas.com

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Sun, 07 May 2006 14:16:13 +0000

P2PNet, when you do your homework, there are non better. Great story!
Ken

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Sun, 07 May 2006 05:37:36 +0000

Jon has been using the term Organzied Music for quite a long time.

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Sun, 07 May 2006 05:33:11 +0000

Very good point. The RIAA/MPAA uses mass scale propaganda to create the impression that bootleg/sharing are infact being done by crime gangs and pedophiles, where in fact, it’s just ordinary people fed up with the cartels overpriced material.

It’s also ironic how they use the term ‘organised crime’. They are pretty close to an organised crime gang, using: price fixing/intimidation/threats/bribes. They abuse the system(law/courts/politics) to get what they want.

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Sun, 07 May 2006 05:16:46 +0000

“Normally you’d check the study, but in this case, the study can’t be studied.”

It is not a study to begin with. It is just a part of the massive PR confidence trick being perpetrated by the entertainment industry and software companies.

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Sun, 07 May 2006 05:03:08 +0000

Once again the old saw about bootleg dvds being sold by organised crime is recopied as we see above. What rubbish!

Organised crime sells a lot of drugs. Why? Because users cant get them anywhere else and they need a continuing supply. How much crack would a drug dealer sell if anybody with a cheap computer could duplicate the bag of crack for 22 cents. Yet thats what any buyer of a dvd can do.

How many bags of coke would a dealer sell if the going price were two dollars….the current price of burned cams and ts movies. Who do you know that is truly addicted to movies? A dvd may be “worth” 25 bucks to a movie company, but on the street its worth close to nothing.

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Sun, 07 May 2006 04:42:34 +0000

Direct from the Wall Street Journal article:

“An additional $529 million in losses came from consumers making copies of legitimate films they bought on DVD or VHS.”

This isn’t piracy. It is called fair use.

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Sun, 07 May 2006 03:36:52 +0000

This is pre spin, next they go to the goverment to get new laws passed. Wolf they are crying wolf again.,

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Sun, 07 May 2006 03:34:35 +0000

What’s outrageous is the mainstream puppets repeating this unverified data without access to the FULL “study”. RIAA’s Canadian arm CRIA published one of these complete surveys and, as was always suspected, online file sharing seems to benefit the bottom line:

http://michaelgeist.ca/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=1168

This is all about failure to adapt and loss of controll.