I see your point but did you read the article?
Nevermind the fact that we could care less what happens to the majors. The
article approaches the topic in a manner I've never seen written publicly.
Basically stating that P2P does so much more for the industry than people
care to recognize and echoes a lot of what folks like us have been saying
for quite some time - greater exposure to music = more sales not less.
Really a great article imo.
Personally, I preview a great deal of my music from the newsgroups
(alt.binaries.sounds.mp3.electronic). I then take what I enjoy, buy it
online and stream on StaticBeats webcast
(
http://www.staticbeats.com/webcast) along with everything else I've bought
from skimo, fe, boomkat juno, etc.. People tune in to the webcast and in
turn go find the music and buy it themselves.
Anyhow, maybe it's just an old topic....
Shimone/Justes
http://www.staticbeats.com
http://www.moonlight-toys.com
Eggystoast wrote:
You know, you'd think that a music lover like myself would be more
interested in these types of articles. I'm not saying that your post is
dumb, mind (far from it), but stating my own position. I fiddle around
with music, I buy music from small labels, I see a few good live
shows. The "music industry" can't say that I'm not an interested
party. However, *I* can say that there's nothing that the "industry" does
that interests me, and the more "culturally aware" it tries to be while
pulling stunts like the DMCA and RIAA's lawsuits makes me care less and
less about what they're doing. When I see things like "We've lost XXX
million dollars due to piracy" I don't think "That's awful" or "Serves them
right," just "meh, sounds like they need to change their business strategy."
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