Comment You can get something for nothing! (Score 1) 336
The beauty of MP3's and Divx and so on is that you are getting something for nothing. If a book is printed and someone steals it, then the store loses money... not so with MP3's.
If you look at the sales of record companies you can see that MP3 trafficking, although higher than ever has not stopped them from making staggering profits.
I have bought maybe 10 CD's in my life. The reason is that they are just too expensive. If I hear one song I like from a band, I don't want to risk buying the CD because experience has taught me that I rarely like all or even most of the songs on the CD.
MP3's have changed all that. Now I can actually check out the songs and if I like them I will buy the CD. So in MY case, MP3's have actually made me by more CD's than before. It also gives obscure bands a better chance to be heard. I don't know why they pursue this anti piracy stuff with such vigour. I think that most of the 'problems' are grossly overstated or even imagined.
PLus just imagine if you could buy MP3's on CD's. I would for sure buy a CD with all the songs by a band (and I mean multi albums). I think that it would be far more cost effective to forget about all this prosecution stuff and do some smart business. Drop CD prices to 5 dollars a CD. I would actually start buying even regular old CD's for that price. Same with DVD's.
The advent of digital media brings with it it's own new problems to the industry but it also brings tons of new opportunities. The Movie industry and the Music industry isn't helping anyone with these sorts of crackdowns.
Why prevent the spread of digital media without copyright? Just change the approach. Instead of crushing people who trade MP3's, just sell better quality ones. I wouldn't bother looking for MP3's and finding ones that are poorly recorded or are missing the last 20 seconds or something if I could buy them on CD's from the record label. And as if the Crappily encoded Divx I download off the Net is going to keep my dollars from flowing into the coffers of the movie makers, quite the contrary! If I download a cool movie off the net, then I will want to go see it on the big screen. I might not make that risk other wise cuz movies are freaking expensive too.
I think the bottom line is that the advent of digital media means more money for everyone in the industry. Stopped worrying about trying to stem the tide and go with the flow.
If you look at the sales of record companies you can see that MP3 trafficking, although higher than ever has not stopped them from making staggering profits.
I have bought maybe 10 CD's in my life. The reason is that they are just too expensive. If I hear one song I like from a band, I don't want to risk buying the CD because experience has taught me that I rarely like all or even most of the songs on the CD.
MP3's have changed all that. Now I can actually check out the songs and if I like them I will buy the CD. So in MY case, MP3's have actually made me by more CD's than before. It also gives obscure bands a better chance to be heard. I don't know why they pursue this anti piracy stuff with such vigour. I think that most of the 'problems' are grossly overstated or even imagined.
PLus just imagine if you could buy MP3's on CD's. I would for sure buy a CD with all the songs by a band (and I mean multi albums). I think that it would be far more cost effective to forget about all this prosecution stuff and do some smart business. Drop CD prices to 5 dollars a CD. I would actually start buying even regular old CD's for that price. Same with DVD's.
The advent of digital media brings with it it's own new problems to the industry but it also brings tons of new opportunities. The Movie industry and the Music industry isn't helping anyone with these sorts of crackdowns.
Why prevent the spread of digital media without copyright? Just change the approach. Instead of crushing people who trade MP3's, just sell better quality ones. I wouldn't bother looking for MP3's and finding ones that are poorly recorded or are missing the last 20 seconds or something if I could buy them on CD's from the record label. And as if the Crappily encoded Divx I download off the Net is going to keep my dollars from flowing into the coffers of the movie makers, quite the contrary! If I download a cool movie off the net, then I will want to go see it on the big screen. I might not make that risk other wise cuz movies are freaking expensive too.
I think the bottom line is that the advent of digital media means more money for everyone in the industry. Stopped worrying about trying to stem the tide and go with the flow.
