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EggyToast
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Date:
Tue, 04 Mar 2003 22:31:33 -0500
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Re: [idm] Record companies on the way out
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At 12:13 PM 3/4/2003 +0200, you wrote:
quoted 5 lines Found this in a thesis....>Found this in a thesis.... > >The US music industry lost $40 Billion in 2001. A sign that things are >changing. The next few years could difintely see the rise of the indi >musicians.
Or the rise of the consumer, rebelling against all of the crappy music out there. I still think it's funny that there's "all this money" purportedly being lost when they're not losing any physical product (like, oh say, the *rest* of the piracy world), there are still plenty of manufactured stars and bands, and they're printing more music than they're selling. Yet they never stop to think that, oh, maybe like every other industry on the planet, that if you don't offer a quality product, people will take their money elsewhere. You get 1 hour of questionable entertainment on a $18 CD. You get 2 hours of entertainment you're much more sure of on a $20 DVD. I wonder why the CD industry is losing money? Maybe they should take a look at the DVD industry and take some pointers -- give people what they want, and at a good price. ------- eggytoast.com ------- coming soon: eggtastic.com --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: idm-unsubscribe@hyperreal.org For additional commands, e-mail: idm-help@hyperreal.org