Re: Is EMI dropping the RIAA
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webe123
There’s no one in the record industry that’s a technologist. That’s a misconception writers make all the time, that the record industry missed this. They didn’t. They just didn’t know what to do. It’s like if you were suddenly asked to operate on your dog to remove his kidney. What would you do?
:lol: we are fighting for our private freedom against dumbasses!
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Originally Posted by
webe123
They made their own problems….Napster could have been a great way of the music industry and customers coming together….but greed got in the way and now they are paying a price for it.
"You have been called greedy for the magnificence of your power to create wealth" (Atlas Shrugged, 421). Do not scorn them for being greedy, as if it is immoral. Do not assume moral supremacy because you are not. They see filesharing as a threat to their well-being. If you were in their position, you would do the same; any rational man with his own self-interest and happiness as his purpose would do the same...
They are only "paying a price for it" because their attempts at stopping filesharing have failed. The EMI does not see the funds as a promising investment. Should they have shown success, the EMI would surely still support them. EMI is being rational.
Don't you understand that if the recording industries and the international organizations supporting them 'recognize' Napster as "a great way of the music industry and customers coming together", their existence would not be neccessary. The only reason musicians sell-out to these industries is for the industries to distribute their music via, but not limited to, CDs. The musicians can upload their music onto music-sharing databases like torrent trackers just as easily as a recording industry could. I really don't want to assume why you would think Napster and the like are "great ways of ... coming together", so I will not go farther.
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Originally Posted by
webe123
I am glad that at least one major label is seeing the light. Now if the others would follow suit……
What light? Their own demise? How can you justify yourself in claiming that the forced destruction of a perfectly legitimate corporation, in regard to intellectual property and distribution rights, by indifferent filesharers is moral? Please, I would like to see you try.[/quote]
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webe123
So what do you think? Is the music industry finally collapsing under it's own bloated weight?
If by "bloated weight", you mean the incredible amount of wealth their business is producing, then no, they are not. This is not karma in action. The immorality of getting too much money legitimately, which is one of your false premises, is not coming back to bite them in the ass.
I think this article just describes a normal business decision, and the possible future of more like it. The only thing really learned from this article, at least by me, is that the attempts at stopping filesharing by the recording industries are failing miserably, as indicated by their loss in funds.
Re: Is EMI dropping the RIAA
It sure does look like this is a sign of things to come to the record industry. When big company usually cut something in there budget that means to me that things are not going well as planed. Or maybe it was EMI getting wise burning off some leaches and investing the money in technology, in a last ditch effort, in something like napster that would ultimetly pay off for them. It's hard to say right now but I would say this move is forecasting a collapse.
Re: Is EMI dropping the RIAA
This sounds to good to be true.
Re: Is EMI dropping the RIAA
Too good to be true, especially when you see what they are trying to do in France
http://news.zdnet.com/2100-9588_22-6...ml?tag=nl.e550
This could be the end of file sharing ! !
Lets face it, you all say the record companies are too greedy and did not embrace Napster etc. But you can buy music legally from Itunes etc but people still download. And I think they would even if songs were say 10 cents each legally.
Regards
Digby
Re: Is EMI dropping the RIAA
Profit and loss...
It's no good fighting piracy with cash, if the cash you spend is more than the money you theoretically lose through piracy (it is proving extremely difficult for the industry to quantify how much money they are losing, simply because no one knows how much piracy is actually going on).
I think that EMI have probably decided that piracy is not going to go away, so their investment to fight it is a literal waste of money. After all, why spend money trying to stop something that cannot be stopped. Only a government department would be so stupid.
Re: Is EMI dropping the RIAA
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Originally Posted by
digmen1
Too good to be true, especially when you see what they are trying to do in France
http://news.zdnet.com/2100-9588_22-6...ml?tag=nl.e550
This could be the end of file sharing ! !
Lets face it, you all say the record companies are too greedy and did not embrace Napster etc. But you can buy music legally from Itunes etc but people still download. And I think they would even if songs were say 10 cents each legally.
Regards
Digby
Broken link. I wonder what they are trying to do. :unsure:
Re: Is EMI dropping the RIAA
I think this is the story that digmen1 was referring to:
http://news.zdnet.com/2100-9588_22-6219944.html
This news about EMI is very exciting; I'd love to see further updates on this. If true, the record industry as we know it might finally begin to change their ways.
But I doubt it.
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Thanks for that new link Mollusk.
I don't know what happened to mine ....
Regards
Digby