Artists earn 90% of their money from touring. It's the RIAA (Recording industry assossiation of america) who want the money, because their business is becoming obselete.
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It's regrettable that TDC is the arsehole of the click scene, but somewhere has to be.
I would have never bought half the cds I own if I never heard some of the mp3's first. I think the decline in record sales has something to due with the fact that new music sucks ass. Examples:
Linkin Park
St.Anger (whhyyy????)
'50 Cent', Sean Pual, ect.
Avril Lavenge, Justin Timberlake
It's a shame this new millennium has to be full of all this rap and pop shit. Even rock has become more sober, making it much more mellow than it ought to be. Heavy metal nowadays comes from god-awful bands such as Kitty and Slipknot. Pointless screaming and heavy, yet souless riffs. No thank you.
Death in the air
Strapped in the electric chair
This can't be happening to me
Who made you God to say
"I'll take your life from you!!"
I have bought a ton of CDs, a couple of which I had to order from the US (I'm Australian), all because I heard the Mp3's first. I'd say that Mp3's have helped the music industry from my stand point. It's my recently purchased burner thats gonna cost 'em
Show me the power child,
I'd like to say,
That I'm down on my knees today,
Gives me the butterflies,
Gives me away,
'Til I'm up on my feet again,
I'm feeling outshined.
Pirating Nirvana Ashman!? [b]FOR SHAME![/b] Among some of the only legit CD's I have!
Anyway...What has been said is true. It is without a doubt one of the inevitable things that comes in this digital age of the Internet, CD ripping and burning, file sharing and file compression. It is bound to happen, and the Internet is such a vast place, and growing, it's going to be harder and harder to track these "crimes".
It's not so much the big artists who've sold millions of records that should be worried about this, which kinda contradictory why Metallica were at the forefront of shutting Napster, when they've had tens of millions...blah
Anyway...I was getting on tangent there...low attention span...
But yeah, I think it's more worrying today for artists starting off these days with this. Simply because if they have one well known song, people are going to get onto the net and download the shit out of it, and not bother with purchasing the single when they can get the song for free, thus depleting sales and what not. All you need is one sap to buy the CD and rip it off. Or record it off the radio and BAM...your all over Kazaa, or where ever.
However, on the flip side, this could be played to an artists advantage. Linkin Park is one prime example of this. They had a big web based, when they were known as Hybrid Theory, and basically got fans via the web to download tracks they recorded, and to tell friends and other interested about them and what not.
So, to contradict myself, it's not all bad if you play your cards right.
As I said earlier, and as always, we shall see. Adaption to the web may be a key element in the success of artist in the future. It's certainly swaying that way. And as a muso myself, I can't wait to see!
MUGGUS
Come and annoy me more at
www.muggus69.tk STOUT ANGER!!!
Internet will change the industry, but change doesn't have to be bad. In my eyes, a bigger threat for RIAA would be a completely legal one. Artists can distrubute their works through their homepages. Offline listeners could pay to download the music. Online listening could be free, funded by advertisement. If enough artists did this, and the concept would become popular, it would be far more devastating to RIAA than any amount of filesharers could ever be.
- Ok, you must admit that was the most creative cussing this site have ever seen -
Well, with palladium their will probably be music that you download that will only run on palladium computers. Since each palladium computer will have a unique ID the music will only play on the computer on which it is "activated". You can disable certain parts of palladium but not the digital rights management (copy protection). It will take years for palladium to catch on after it is released (probably sometime in 2006 with the release of the next Windows) but eventually you won't be able to buy a computer without it. Old hardware only lasts so long you know. I think as broadband becomes more common you will see software and music being purchased over the internet with palladium providing security against piracy. I doubt that in 15 years music and software will be sold in stores anymore.
By the way, I take it many of you like to steal cars to see if you like them. If you like it you buy the car, if not you keep it anyway.
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hehe i wud love to boycott microsoft - if there was a operating system which was as easy to use, worked wwith my hardware and i could run all my software on it i would have no problem at all with leaving microsost - likewise, if i could make a word document on a non windows program, take it to uni and edit it in MS word, then bring it home and it would still work on my word processor, i would use it(i think Sun microsystems are working on a completely compatible with mircosoft office program)but until its all interlinkable i have to use microsoft for its compatibility
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I think as broadband becomes more common you will see software and music being purchased over the internet with palladium providing security against piracy. I doubt that in 15 years music and software will be sold in stores anymore.
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