Dan, the latest data I have seen shows that Music
industry profits are up despite the economy being
down. (Time Warner is just being drug down by the
crappiest ISP in the world with the ludicrous idea
that if they keep sending me coasters I will actually
pay them more money for less access.)
There are good arguments that all of the rampant piracy is actually good for the music industry because it has made more music available, thereby reawakening an interest in music. Bored consumers = radio listeners. Audiophiles = CD buyers.
keith
--- Dan Bernitt <dlb[_at_]psu.edu> wrote:
> At 02:44 AM 1/30/2003 Thursday, Linda Gruber wrote:
> >Hello Eric
> >Having seen the effect of rampant copying and
> distribution on the music
> >industry
>
>
>
>
>
> Is there a quantitative or definitive description of
> this effect? The only
> things I've seen claim that every single download of
> a song is the actual
> loss of a sale. That is so ludicrous. The opposite
> is almost always
> true. I'm pretty old, I've been in the computer
> business for a very long
> time, and I've seen this claim/fear many times
> before. Sport team owners
> were convinced that televising games would surely
> keep people from buying
> tickets, interactive computing would be the end of
> the Computer Center, the
> VCR would be the end of movies and television, etc.,
> etc. Sure, CD sales
> are down in the last couple of years. So is the
> whole danged
> economy! We're in a recession for heaven's sake.
>
>
>
>
> >and the effect of competition from too much royalty
> free stock art
> >and works of old masters on the illustration
> industry, I don't think
> >introducing
> >more works into public domain promotes progress
> enough to offset the
> >depressing effect that releasing a flood of
> republished works has on original
> >creations and emerging markets in the digital age.
> Howeever, since you asked
> >for opinions, I'd like to suggest a carrot instead
> of a stick.
> >
> >If your goal is to nudge languishing copyrighted
> works into the public domain
> >sooner, why not petition Congress to offer a tax
> incentive for donating
> >works
> >that copyright holders don't plan to exploit
> themselves rather than
> >thinking of
> >ways to unfairly push creators into giving up
> copyrights. Creators' heirs
> >already
> >give more than other citizens. Who else in our
> capitalistic society is
> >forced to
> >give up valuable holdings to the public domain
> without any compensation for
> >the loss of income their unique property can
> potentially produce?
>
>
>
> Patent owners?
>
>
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