I think the reality is the music industry want's it both ways a paid download costs them a fraction of the CD, DVD would so their margins are huge. But they find everyone (ok not everyone) are downloading music for FREE.
I think they have to accept the future is finding a way to charge the websites for hosting the free stuff as they can't find a way of stopping it whilst making it accessible.
In the UK many of the bigger more established groups have launched CD's by them being given away in newspapers (presumably for a healthy sum).
This way the royalties are paid upfront and the record companies make the profit in one hit!
Maybe they can work out a way for this model to work online who knows?
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I think the reality is the music industry want's it both ways a paid download costs them a fraction of the CD, DVD would so their margins are huge. But they find everyone (ok not everyone) are downloading music for FREE.
I think they have to accept the future is finding a way to charge the websites for hosting the free stuff as they can't find a way of stopping it whilst making it accessible.
In the UK many of the bigger more established groups have launched CD's by them being given away in newspapers (presumably for a healthy sum).
This way the royalties are paid upfront and the record companies make the profit in one hit!
Maybe they can work out a way for this model to work online who knows?