RIAA Misfires, Grazes PCMag.com article points that the music industry has gone off the deep end. The RIAA and other music industry organizations have spent the better part of the decade fighting the digital transition, with only a shrinking business to show for. It’s time for these music execs to pull their collective heads out of the sand and fully acknowledge and accept all the ways their industry has changed.
The advent of digital media and analog/digital conversion technologies has vastly increased the concerns of copyright-dependent individuals and organizations, especially within the music and movie industries. The industry has tried digital restrictions management approach to enforce access policies everywhere, but not with great results.
The stupid CD copy protection experiment failed on music industry because “the costs of DRM do not measure up to the results”. The end result of this stupid experiment was money spent, angry customers and falling CD sales. The incentive to buy CDs dropped for me considerably when I found out that the CDs don’t play in all my devices and some CDs were even spreading malware. I learned that time that buying new CDs was not fun anymore, and I practically stopped buying new CDs…. Stupidity of many DRM systems has been also a reason why many on-line music shop experiments have failed and very few have succeeded well.
Nothing will stop technology’s inexorable march forward. Things will continue to change. Music downloads and sharing will never go away no matter how much the music industry hopes that. They have to start to live in this new environment (maybe new to them not them but now new to the consumers) or prepare to die slowly. People who have business models that depend on strong controls for everything — those are flawed models.
Thank you for taking the time to publish this information very useful!I’m still waiting for some interesting thoughts from your side in your next post thanks.
I agree with your opinion. If there is no music industry, how can we download music?
Where is the support for newcomers?
There are so many fabulous musicians like “Curran Carter”…
I agree with your opinion too. But where does it lead to finaly?
Piracy May Boost Sales, Judge Concludes
http://torrentfreak.com/piracy-may-boost-sales-111102/
A Spanish judge came to an interesting conclusion in a case dealing with a seller of pirated copies. According to the judge the defendant doesn’t have to pay compensation to the rightsholders because it is not possible to determine to what extent piracy actually decreases sales. On the contrary, the judge suggests that piracy may even boost sales.
Piracy problems? US copyright industries show terrific health
http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2011/11/piracy-problems-us-copyright-industries-show-terrific-health.ars
Things are going so “badly” that a major new report commissioned by copyright holders says that these “consistently positive trends solidify the status of the copyright industries as a key engine of growth for the US economy as a whole.”
I saw those articles mentioned at
http://www.tietoviikko.fi/kaikki_uutiset/oikeus+musabisnes+voi+hyotya+piratismista/a717178?s=r&wtm=tietoviikko/-07112011&
RIAA and Homeland Security Caught Downloading Torrents
http://torrentfreak.com/riaa-and-homeland-security-caught-downloading-torrents-111217/
If there’s one organization known for its crusade against online piracy, it’s the RIAA. Nevertheless, even in the RIAA’s headquarters several people use BitTorrent to download pirated music, movies, TV-shows and software. And they are in good company. The Department of Homeland Security – known for seizing pirate domain names – also harbors hundreds of BitTorrent pirates.
Angry Birds boss: ‘Piracy may not be a bad thing: it can get us more business’
Rovio’s Mikael Hed tells music industry audience that embracing pirates can attract new fans
http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/appsblog/2012/jan/30/angry-birds-music-midem
“We took something from the music industry, which was to stop treating the customers as users, and start treating them as fans. We do that today: we talk about how many fans we have,” he said.
“If we lose that fanbase, our business is done, but if we can grow that fanbase, our business will grow.”