Comment new music vs. food (Score 1) 376
"Celine Dion's album was fitted with copyright protection"
It's about time the music industry took steps to protect us from Celine. Preventing these discs from being played in so many CD players may be one of the smartest things they've ever done. I applaud their efforts to keep such crap from making it's way onto the Internet.
But seriously, I think it is high time that these powerful corporations start looking at the ever present "bottom line." I could easily, much more so than scouring P2P services, go to the record store and buy an album (if there were any I wanted to actually own). But the last time I checked, the average CD was about $18. I don't have a degree in business or ecomomics but I have been able to distill my budget down to two very important categories: things I need and things I don't need.
Things I need: food, shelter, warmth, etc ...
Things I don't need: $18 CD's.
It's really very simple, if the music industry wants to compete with the tidal wave of "piracy" that has come about b/c of this digital "revolution" then perhaps they need to do what I did and figure out what is important to them. I can't imagine for a minute that I'm going to run out and start patronizing an industry that has done nothing for the past two years but go to war on alienating their bread and butter by hiking prices and cavalierly snubbing their nose at honest, paying customers. I don't buy CD's, not b/c I can get the music online, I don't buy CD's b/c they're expensive, the new offerings are almost unilaterally bad and most importantly, the industry behind all of this has presented itself as nothing more than a large, evil, greedy monopoly absolutely bent upon parting people from their hard earned money by any means. Perhaps some will rise up and cry "capitalism" but to me it's just "stupid" particularly when their methods are so incredibly transparent.
What they fail to remember is that we all still have a choice. We can choose to purchase new music or we can go without. The mere presence of a product does not necessitate anything other the the mere presence of a product, period. I don't have to buy anything, especially if I don't need it. Over the past four years, I've purchased all of maybe two CD's, one from an independent label. I would think they would have started getting the message (as well as remembering the rules of supply and demand) but apparently costly legal bills, invasive and largely useless protection technology and price gouging are the smart ways to run a business.
It's about time the music industry took steps to protect us from Celine. Preventing these discs from being played in so many CD players may be one of the smartest things they've ever done. I applaud their efforts to keep such crap from making it's way onto the Internet.
But seriously, I think it is high time that these powerful corporations start looking at the ever present "bottom line." I could easily, much more so than scouring P2P services, go to the record store and buy an album (if there were any I wanted to actually own). But the last time I checked, the average CD was about $18. I don't have a degree in business or ecomomics but I have been able to distill my budget down to two very important categories: things I need and things I don't need.
Things I need: food, shelter, warmth, etc
Things I don't need: $18 CD's.
It's really very simple, if the music industry wants to compete with the tidal wave of "piracy" that has come about b/c of this digital "revolution" then perhaps they need to do what I did and figure out what is important to them. I can't imagine for a minute that I'm going to run out and start patronizing an industry that has done nothing for the past two years but go to war on alienating their bread and butter by hiking prices and cavalierly snubbing their nose at honest, paying customers. I don't buy CD's, not b/c I can get the music online, I don't buy CD's b/c they're expensive, the new offerings are almost unilaterally bad and most importantly, the industry behind all of this has presented itself as nothing more than a large, evil, greedy monopoly absolutely bent upon parting people from their hard earned money by any means. Perhaps some will rise up and cry "capitalism" but to me it's just "stupid" particularly when their methods are so incredibly transparent.
What they fail to remember is that we all still have a choice. We can choose to purchase new music or we can go without. The mere presence of a product does not necessitate anything other the the mere presence of a product, period. I don't have to buy anything, especially if I don't need it. Over the past four years, I've purchased all of maybe two CD's, one from an independent label. I would think they would have started getting the message (as well as remembering the rules of supply and demand) but apparently costly legal bills, invasive and largely useless protection technology and price gouging are the smart ways to run a business.
