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Originally posted by SweetTater
Also remember that if you do get the CDs in a free method, you're also denying the artists what miniscule amounts of money they would be getting.
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The artisits hardly get any money from CD sales. Artists get almost all of their money from concert revenues. Why do you think that a majorioty of the people speaking out are the companies and not the artists? It is almost in the artists best interest for people to rip their music off Kaza. More people hear/like their music, the more people go to their concert.
But that is besides the point. The record labels need to realize that digital medium is here to stay. They need to figure a way to make money while still allowing for the fact that their songs can be transfered to a digital form and spread around the world. How do they do that? Make the CDs free.
Thats right, make them free. They could revamp music stores so that you got a card and you where allowed to take any CD in the place (within reason) and check out, then walk out the door. How would they make their money? Advertisments. Short advertisements in between the songs. I know you guys are probably thinking, but I could just fast forward through the ads. You could, but you could also mute TV commercials, but for some reason people just don't seem to do that. The advertisers would pay money to the record label based upon how many copies the CD sells. In other words, a ad on a Britney Spears CD that goes quadruple platinum would be the equivilent of buying an ad durring the superbowl, while buying an ad on the new Best of Vannila Ice Anthology would be like buying an ad at three in the morning, on the wheather channel.
Another problem solved, by Militant Bob.
2003-07-30, 01:15 PM
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