Try to imagine you are a Mom and Pop store on Main Street America selling donuts. Every day, half your customers come in and decide not to pay and walk out. You call the police but they hang up on you and say 'but it is just a donut, who cares'. Well the music industry has been experiencing this ever since Napster popularized file 'sharing'.
I agree entirely with the idea of music lockers and streaming of music. There are ways for all parties to be happy. The key is getting everyone into a room to discuss it. That is the hard part.
With that being said, my music software company is attempting to do just that.
Everyone seemed to forget that selling 1 million downloads is um, not exactly happening every day either. It is more like 1 million downloads of which 100,000 were paid for if you are VERRRRRY lucky. Illegal file sharing still very much alive in well out there.
ps: The only artists getting 1m record deals are those that win on shows such as Idol in the USA and others like it abroad.
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Try to imagine you are a Mom and Pop store on Main Street America selling donuts. Every day, half your customers come in and decide not to pay and walk out. You call the police but they hang up on you and say 'but it is just a donut, who cares'. Well the music industry has been experiencing this ever since Napster popularized file 'sharing'.
I agree entirely with the idea of music lockers and streaming of music. There are ways for all parties to be happy. The key is getting everyone into a room to discuss it. That is the hard part.
With that being said, my music software company is attempting to do just that.
Selling 1 million worth of stolen downloads?
Everyone seemed to forget that selling 1 million downloads is um, not exactly happening every day either. It is more like 1 million downloads of which 100,000 were paid for if you are VERRRRRY lucky. Illegal file sharing still very much alive in well out there.
ps: The only artists getting 1m record deals are those that win on shows such as Idol in the USA and others like it abroad.