I mostly agree, Frawg, but the one thing I
don't yet see is the industry "losing out."
Wait, lemme address this to Hilary.
I dunno where to begin. First, I'd like to
say, Hilary, you are a fat fuckin' cow.
Now, I don't usually hurl names when I'm
about to make some valid points, but you
_are_ a fat fuckin' cow. I would dislike
your organization so much less passionately
were you not in charge. I had to get that
off my chest; now I can move on.
I'd like to know how much of the artists'
money was spent on this survey.
"When 23 percent of surveyed music consumers
say they are not buying more music because
they are downloading or copying their music
for free, we cannot ignore the impact on the
marketplace." That's right, you can't (or
is that cun't), so you should do something
that will appeal to that growing number of
people who are finding their music
elsewhere? Why are you fighting the trends?
Offer them something more than your
traditional services! You can make so much
more money if you'd spend the artists' money
less on surveys and more on delivery
development. You'd make more money, and
you'd be able to take more money from the
artists. Their pittances would go up and
everyone'd be happy on that end.
I guess this wouldn't be a good place to
reiterate that less than one-tenth of a
percent of all signed artists are above
water in royalties, and the fraction of
artists that are even signed is so
exponential, I won't even begin to guess its
minutia. Perhaps it's time to offer the
public more artists at a lower cost of
delivery?
At the same time, you've still got 77% of
the "consumers," as you so eloquently call
them, yet your sales are down merely 4.1%.
...in poor economic times. As I've pointed
out seemingly a zillion times, sales are
down due to the penny-pinching times. If
the RIAA would even think about it, after
the sales peak of 2000, their 4.1% decrease,
in light of the times, could actually be
considered prosperous. As I've mentioned
before, record sales went from a peak of 140
million units moved in 1927 to a mere 6
million in 1932. Where were all the
"pirates" scoring their music for free then?
Where in the survey does it specify how many
people went out to buy copies of the music
when they found a coupla songs on the net?
Does every download represent to you nothin'
more than a lost sale??
Where does it state how much of the consumer
base is sick and tired of payin' 19 bux for
an album w/2 or 3 songs they will like?
..yet you still have only a 4.1% decrease in
income.
Perhaps your expectations should be a bit
more modest these days. Did you really
expect the continual growth of the past
decade to continue indefinitely??
I suppose the increase in LP and DVD sales
can be attributed to the fact that they
aren't reproduced at home en masse? It's
all about control, ain't it?
Take your cut from the sales of computers,
burners, and blank media, and stop spendin
others' money frivolously. ..it could be
bad for your image. ...you fat fuckin' cow.
ps: I know i was all over the place, and
talkin' in mostly incomplete thoughts, but i
have little time and this article really set
me off.
Super
backmann
milladrive
