IFPI ‘illegal download’ moan
p2pnet.net News:- If you make too many “private” copies, commercial music sales will suffer, whine the Big Four record labels.
“Ongoing common use of illegal sources on the Internet” such as p2p networks and “the unresolved problems due to excessive private copies” are “slowing down market growth for music downloads,” claims IFPI, Germany, spokesman Michael Haentjes.
Short for International Federation of Phonographic Industry, the IFPI is one of the numerous PR / DRM enforcement units, called ‘trade’ organizations, owned by the Big Four Organzied Music family members, Warner Music, EMI, Sony BMG and Vivendi Universal.
It said it plans to redouble its efforts to combat illegal downloading, continues Heise Online, adding:
“Sales of CD albums reportedly remained stable at 54.6 million items. Sales of LPs continued to drop, especially because sales of music cassettes (which are part of the “long play” category) dropped by 1.5 million items. Sales of singles fell short of the level of Q1 and Q2 2005 by 1.1 million at 6.5 million. Sales of music videos increased by 4.7 percent to 4.5 million items.”
Also See:
Heise Online – German music industry complains about “excessive private copies”, August 15, 2006
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August 18th, 2006 at 7:05 pm
wtf is this trying to say? they expect someone to buy it 5 times just so they can use it on their PC,mp3player, car, toilet, bed, etc?
thats stupid.
August 18th, 2006 at 7:53 pm
That is precisely what they expect.
Absolutely no fair use is what they are after, and they will
Buy whomever they can, lie to whomever will listen,
and block any media story that will impede that goal.
So much for working together.
August 18th, 2006 at 9:25 pm
Sometime in the future will be the complaint that cd sales are dropping in volume. The industry is desperate to get rid of the cd. They want the format dropped to the realm of the 8 track so that better protections can be engaged through the dvd or for the cheaper method of on-line distribution.
So you can expect for the subject to be revisited in some fashion with the complaint that no one is buying cds, that mom and pop record stores are continuing to decline in number, and at the same time withholding info about their part in it.
This is just another fluff piece that is working at trying to influence a pro-cartel stance without giving all the data.
August 18th, 2006 at 11:47 pm
Actually, the music cabal’s big wet dream is a ‘Pay to Play, EVERY TIME’
marketplace with them in total control and no competition. No purchases, no subscriptions, just a virtual coin slot connected directly to your credit card on any and every device that can play music. “You wanna hear that tune again? Put your money in the slot.”
August 19th, 2006 at 1:38 am
And, with “well respected” U.S. Senators such as Orrin Hatch fronting for the cabal, who’s to stop them?
August 19th, 2006 at 1:55 am
The only way to screw up a digital music collection is to make the file format obselete – and it’s pretty hard to come up with a good reason why people should repurchase their DIGITAL music.
(Analogue was great for the record companies – they could sell replacement copies every 10 years or so)
August 19th, 2006 at 1:24 pm
“And, with “well respected” U.S. Senators such as Orrin Hatch fronting for the cabal, who’s to stop them?”
No one but us.
It is really good to try to settle the issue, with both sides
working together.
That one sentence shows why it IS NOT POSSIBLE.
Not anymore. We can have no more faith that those currently
in control have the public good in mind.
It’s time to OUST them.
Vote them out.
Participate in elections.
Cast your votes.
Kick their corrupt cans to the curb.
Be sure to write them and let them know why.
August 19th, 2006 at 4:33 pm
[quote](Analogue was great for the record companies – they could sell replacement copies every 10 years or so)[/code]
It's like they really expect the business model of the 80s to carry on in present days. I remember buying the same tape twice, because tapes would just sometimes get tangled and lost forever inside the tape deck, that was fucked up, but it was the nature of the way music was sold back then. Do they really think people nowadays will be as willing to shell out money for the same music more than once, fat chance my friend, fat fuckin' chance.
August 19th, 2006 at 4:34 pm
We (I) want BBcode, we want BBcode, We want BBcode. Did I mention we want BBcode.
August 20th, 2006 at 6:27 am
What the hell is BBcode?
Got a link?
August 20th, 2006 at 6:31 am
When all is said and done, it’s the people themselves, John Q. Public, who has the power to make change happen, if they(we) choose to use that power.
To everyone in the US who is reading this, goto the polls this November and vote the corrupt politicians out of office.
As to the guy that I am replying to, you got my vote.
August 20th, 2006 at 6:52 am
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bbcode
August 21st, 2006 at 7:16 am
Sales of LPs and cassettes have dropped? I wasn’t aware that you could even purchase these any longer, except from the ‘used’ music stores?
Seriously though, I think the drop in cassette sales can be attributed mainly to the fact that automobile manufacturers now equip their offerings with CD players in lieu of cassette players. Each time a 1980-something automobile goes to the junkyard, so does the cassette player in it’s stereo (if so equpped.)
Generally people are not going to try and rip their cassette collection to CD. Guess what they are going to do? Probably go replace their favorites with new CDs (if they don’t know about p2p.)
And yes, some people are so carefree with their money and lazy that they can’t be bothered toting a case of CDs between their home and automobile, so there will be ‘car CDs’ and ‘house CDs.’
This is yet another example of disingenuous spin from an industry organization.
–TG
August 21st, 2006 at 6:02 pm
” Generally people are not going to try and rip their cassette collection to CD. ”
True, but ….
Scenario 1 :It is not that difficult to record cassette to PC.
Still fair use, You bought the cassette.
Scenario 2:
You want your PURCHASED casette copied to your PC,
but are not sure how to do it.
DL a copy via P2P.
You OWN a PURCHASED copy.
Fair Use.
In the Cecilia Gonzalez case, they DROPPED ALL infringement counts in which
she had a purchased copy of a DL’d song
August 22nd, 2006 at 4:53 pm
And remember boys and girls – home taping is KILLING music!!!!