On Wed, 14 May 2008 20:56:36 -0700 (PDT), Endymion wrote:
> On May 14, 9:23 pm, Nyx <secret...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>
>> The old paradigm of making money from record sales is dead, face it.
>
> Possibly, but it's still going to be kicking around until someone
> succeeds in finding a better way. Downloads aren't quite there yet.
> The technology may be near there,[1] but the business model isn't even
> close.
>
>> It
>> never made any money for anyone but the record companies, anway. I
think
>> Robert Johnson made about 50 bucks
>
> Right, that's how Paul McCartney and Michael Jackson got so poor,
> isn't it?
I thought the latter made most of his pile with the "record company"
rights to most of the former's early work...
> [1] Although I'm half dismayed and half annoyed by the fact that the
> biggest cheerleaders for the concept spend half their time trying to
> convince moderate audiophiles like myself that we really don't NEED to
> be able to hear anything subtle in the music. But I guess it worked
> for Wonder Bread...
That's WHY record companies can actually survive. If the record
companies released thier own low-quality MP3s, the vast majority of
people that aren't going to buy it anyway would be satisfied with their
128kbps downloads. Buying gets you the high-quality stuff just like now,
a nice box, nice artwork, stickers, maybe coupons for a tour
that the publisher is trying to promote to encourage "buy early, buy
new" instead of delaying.
--
They got rid of it because they judged it more trouble than it was worth.
(And considering they'd gone to great lengths to minimize its worth,
I suppose they were right.)
-- J. D. Baldwin
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