ben m
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It would appear that there is a threat to companies such as CD-WOW who offer customers cheap albums by shipping from Hong Kong and similiar places.
If this ruling goes through, it will reduce competition in the marketplace and ensure that British (and to an extent European) customers are charged more for their music.
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Pingutron
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Piracy- Ok so it's a threat to the profit margins of all the large companies like Sony, Viacom, Time-Warner. I say piracy will always be there, you can not beat the determination of the few who believe that piracy IS needed to break the oligopolistic attitudes of the majors, and that music should be cheaper, ie covers the production costs. In a media rich world, the creativity of the human mind has a price, how much? I say free. The human race is not a common market. |
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wailingalleycat
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Pirate copies are rapidly spreading but dont you think that crack downs would punish people like myself who download music legally?
I have to admit pirate copies are quite tempting considering you may have to pay £14 (sterling) for a legal CD.
If the major companies can come up with a simple way of charging for downloads especially for people without credit cards then you may prise people slowly away from pirating.
Hey Will, i see you are also ripping your hair out over a dial-up connection, dont suffer in silence mate!!
-Paul
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chrn368
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I know that piracy can hurt the profit margins of large companies (which in my opinion isn't necessarily a bad thing since they're ripping people off to begin with), but how would this effect say the musical artists? |
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Wed Sep 06, 2006 9:49 pm |
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AMR
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In late 2006 Universal Music will be distributing their music catalog for free.
Publicity based business models will ensure artists get payed and labels get revenue.
A paradigm shift, but same loadz of money...
Benetton and Levi Strauss are backing Universal on this, other major labels will follow imediatly if it seems to work.
So music will turn into a game of "audiences", making it's quality even more important, and the target market price for publicity even higher. Can you pirate that?
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AMR
http://www.alvaromrocha.com
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Calipso
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Hey AMR, what exactly do you mean? Have i missed something on the news recently?? |
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Fri Sep 08, 2006 10:08 am |
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conquistadore
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Hmm..interesting, that article. But what makes them sure that people are going to watch those adverts while the song is downloading - they could just leave the downloads to happen and read the newspaper! Its an interesting move but not a clever one i think...
Somehow for me, owning music in a medium that can be held and moved around wherever I go (like a CD/DVD) is more satisfying than an mp3 file sitting on my hard disk. |
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Governmment crackdowns.Dawn raids on anyone suspected of owning pirated material(obviously targeting broadband users first!).Perhaps the conservatives will adopt this idea as a new policy?
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