Universal Experimenting With MP3s Of Back Catalog
from the good-for-them dept
It’s good to see that Universal is at least experimenting with MP3s more and more. The latest move is to offer up MP3s from their back catalog through eMusic, a subscription service they own. These are real MP3s that users can do whatever they want with. Universal says they want to see if offering the MP3s on music that is no longer selling in retail stores will help them generate additional revenue. It sounds like there are at least a few people at Universal who are beginning to see the potential of MP3s, and are putting together these experiments to push forward.
Comments on “Universal Experimenting With MP3s Of Back Catalog”
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Come on man. They are “Pushing forward”….they are launching feeble experiments offering either non-burnable CD’s, crappy artist titles, or encryption that blows up your PC or mac.
They aren’t “pushing forward” they are trying to hold on to their outdated business model, releasing these crap services to say “We’re trying, but it’s just not working out well. Nobody wanted to buy Pat Benetar’s first album, therefore it’s obvious this method isn’t working out.” They’ll then use their in house stat farms to create numbers proving the idea isn’t viable when the courts finally nail them for price fixing and monopolistic practices 5 years from now.
Instead of dumping all their money into the legal costs of suing peer to peer applications, they should be developing better encryption technology and working on bringing their entire music catalog’s online.
The RIAA wants things to remain how they are now. They are being anything but progressive.
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Come on man. They aren’t “Pushing forward”….they are launching feeble experiments offering either non-burnable CD’s, crappy artist titles, or encryption that blows up your PC or mac.
They aren’t “pushing forward” they are trying to hold on to their outdated business model, releasing these crap services to say “We’re trying, but it’s just not working out well. Nobody wanted to buy Pat Benetar’s first album, therefore it’s obvious this method isn’t working out.” They’ll then use their in house stat farms to create numbers proving the idea isn’t viable when the courts finally nail them for price fixing and monopolistic practices 5 years from now.
Instead of dumping all their money into the legal costs of suing peer to peer applications, they should be developing better encryption technology and working on bringing their entire music catalog’s online.
The RIAA wants things to remain how they are now. They are being anything but progressive.