nicketynick;200445 Wrote: > Please, Mr. Hoops, could you explain in very simple terms how your DRM > is going to be an advantage to the artists and labels who are selling > more music than ever at emusic.com & zunior.com? (Artists who aren't > trying to become millionaires have more options than ever for > generating income from their art!) > Wait, I take that back - they will probably do better than ever, once > the big labels have priced themselves out of the market! That's an > interesting insight...... the industry is beginning to realize that > huge revenues are only going to be generated via volume (large number > of artists), rather than depending on a small number of artists to > generate collossal revenues. It's a structural shift brought on by the > digital era (similar to what the newspaper business has struggled with) > that is going to be difficult for the multinational corporations to > handle, companies that size just aren't very nimble, too bad for their > shareholders, but at least EMI has recognized it and has begun the > process. > As long as your arguments tend to lean toward greater profitability for > these large corporations, I'm not going to see any sense in what you > propose.
I agree entirely. The market distortion happens at the level of the business model of the music companies (particularly the very skewed contractual arrangements they have with young up and coming artists). The attempt to enforce this distortion downstream is leading to bizarre and illogical choices and posturing when these same companies deal with their final customers. I must say I find it ridiculous when music corporations ask for an extension of the copyright, when this has nothing to do with providing the artist with a rightful income stream, but only brings cashflows to the company owning the copyright. This is an abuse of dominant position wrapped up in a moral cocoon. I find this attitude repulsive. What is very interesting is how the economic good being traded (particularly the "replicability" of the digital product) is having effects upstream on large corporations, who will have to bend or wane. All of your concerns (quality particularly) will be addressed by the market once the initial distortion is addressed. Who said that music quality has to decrease as the business model changes? The only thing I can assure you is that less money will be spent on low quality marketing-driven music. As far as I am concerned that is a good thing. Cheers, Giacomo -- gbruzzo ------------------------------------------------------------------------ gbruzzo's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=3633 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=34928 _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list audiophiles@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/audiophiles
