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Music industry has lost a third of its value since 2003
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article published on 20 January, 2011
The International Federation of the Phonographic Industry's (IFPI) latest Digital Music Report has painted a bleak picture for the music industry, explaining how its value has been cut by a third in just seven years, with no end in sight.
Digital music revenue has grown 1000 percent in the time frame, but growth has slowed from triple digits earlier in the century to just 6 percent in 2010.
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24. January 2011 @ 22:47 |
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Originally posted by john_swan:
Al Yankovic --- Don't Download This Song
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zGM8PT1eAvY
i clicked the link and it said this video contains content from vevo,who has blocked it in your country on copyright grounds.
some of the music by weird al yankovic is hilarious.
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25. January 2011 @ 01:43 |
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We are able to watch this video in the United States.
The Digital Millennium Copyright Act(DMCA)is an example of legislation enacted to support a treaty. There will be legal challenges to DMCA. As technology changes copyright laws will continue to change. Court decisions will help everyone understand our responsibility when it comes to fair use of copyrighted material.
Today, a public library purchases copyrighted material for use by people in the community. You can check out copyrighted material for a period of time. Many people share the copyrighted material over its lifetime.
Using current technology we should be able to create a public library to serve the public over the Internet. The developers of operating systems could create files which expire after some period of time. The copyrighted material would become available for check out.
John Swanson
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25. January 2011 @ 01:47 |
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and they can shove their drm right up their arse.. the public have already spoken in this regard.. we will pay to rent a physical item.. but we will not pay to rent something non physical.. we buy outright or they can gtfo!!
good riddance to the parasitical "music business" .. all the rich leeches.. when you see shows like Cribs where some talentless rapper with 1.. yes 1 minor hit has a multi million house.. twats.. talentless shite for stupid brainwashed people..
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25. January 2011 @ 03:43 |
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For every wealthy musician there are fifty starving musicians. The top 2 percent of musicians earn 90 percent of the income. These are the people our government protects because they can influence elected officials with generous campaign contributions; most of the rest of us consider them bribes.
Our CD sits on the dash of car on a warm day and takes on the shape of a potato chip. We have to buy a new CD.
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26. January 2011 @ 00:46 |
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Originally posted by john_swan:
For every wealthy musician there are fifty starving musicians. The top 2 percent of musicians earn 90 percent of the income. These are the people our government protects because they can influence elected officials with generous campaign contributions; most of the rest of us consider them bribes.
Our CD sits on the dash of car on a warm day and takes on the shape of a potato chip. We have to buy a new CD.
just think for every weathly person in this world how many starving and homeless people there are in the world.
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26. January 2011 @ 03:52 |
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26. January 2011 @ 10:47 |
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Originally posted by pcrepair:
it was wet muddy and chaotic a real shambles and no naked girls they were added after how about another NEWPORT
I don't know which Woodstock you went to, but the one I went to had more than enough glistening boobage in both the morning and evening dew. And for your information... That was in in 1969...
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26. January 2011 @ 11:04 |
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Originally posted by Interestx:
How about the music business & the talent-lite moldable wannabes they prefer to promote stop pretending that being an artist is all about striking it mega rich & then being an egotistical & narcissistic abusive fool ever after having done that with that awesome 'career of 1 or 2 singles & an album or 2?
(cos the truth in any event is that the record Co. gets almost all the money &the best the 'talent' can hope for is some presenting job on low audience cable/satellite TV for a couple of years)
True artists want their art out there & history shows most great artists weren't rich idle idiots and kept up the stream of work (providing they survived their demons).
This is exactly what I was attempting to quote on earlier!!! You were just much more eloquent in your explanation. Disney and its child-grinding machine is the biggest example of this kind of behavior. I can't wait for Justin Biber, Baber, Embiber (however you spell the newest finger banging sensation's name this year) to end up face down in the gutter with a needle in each arm, bags under his eyes and a laundry list of legal actions against him after he has tried to take on the Entertainment Leviathan once he thinks breaks his artistic cherry and tries his hand at being a real artist... only to possibly find out that he either is or isn't; which in either case Disney still won't let him do shit. And we all have seen what happens to celebrities that take on Beelzebub of ABC, right? Other than Kurt Russell, I'm not 'immediately' aware of another child star/performer from the Disney grind house that made it out.
I just use this as an example by which most artists have to compete with in some varied degree. Hopefully, with a bit more exposure of this sort, the public could see that the "industry's" oh-woe-as-me cry for help can frankly go pound sand.
But as an artist myself, I have found that everyone loves my work. Simply raves about it. Can't get enough of it. Until they have to pay for it. Its at this point that even I find myself becoming a hypocrite at times...
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28. January 2011 @ 17:19 |
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LordRuss
I thank you.
+1 mate
+ fecking 1
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12. February 2011 @ 00:04 |
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When the music industry promotes people who can actually sing (no Autotune crap), and when digital online resellers provide songs in a lossless, DRM free format I will purchase more music. Why should I pay for compressed garbage? I like my DVDAs (and other high fidelity formats) and I have the equipment to appreciate them. I am able and willing to pay for music - I paid $156 USD for a MFSL vinyl on which was only one song I liked - but it was for the sound quality that I purchased it. Give me quality & I will pay for it - simple as that.
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12. February 2011 @ 00:15 |
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"give me quality & I will pay for it - simple as that."
Here here! :)
I have mediocre equipment, and I appreciate good music. Period! Long live nine inch nails :p
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12. February 2011 @ 01:27 |
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The recording industry should stop production runs of music CDs in China. The artwork, burning and packaging costs about 0.20 dollars per CD in China. The product sells for about 15 dollars per CD in US. The recording industry's manufacturer in China will distribute music CDs within China for more money than the recording industry pays them.
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15. February 2011 @ 13:36 |
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Originally posted by john_swan:
The recording industry should stop production runs of music CDs in China. The artwork, burning and packaging costs about 0.20 dollars per CD in China. The product sells for about 15 dollars per CD in US. The recording industry's manufacturer in China will distribute music CDs within China for more money than the recording industry pays them.
Just to be a conceited prick (me) and knowing full well that the 'industry' will not come into this forum and correct me (and damn sure not with a valid figure); given the inflation rate [from albums in the 70's to today] I believe artists are making between 13 and 17 cents (liberal figures here) per album from a mainstream recording company that allows the artist to maintain his or her recording/publishing rights. Its still between 3 and 7 cents (sorry, US currency) per album if the record company hold the rights.
If the Recording artist owned everything there was to own about the 'industry' then the loss due to this supposed international turmoil known as piracy would be of concern, but we (most of the public as a whole) simply know this isn't true... if there is one thing the US has mastered it is the art of fucking someone else out of what doesn't belong to them.
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15. February 2011 @ 19:30 |
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Originally posted by LordRuss:
...the art of fucking someone else out of what doesn't belong to them.
= unregulated capitalism (in their case).
Its a lot easier being righteous than right.
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15. February 2011 @ 22:09 |
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My first thought on reading the article title, is that it has also lost about 9 tenths of its quality!
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19. February 2011 @ 18:00 |
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An oldtimer who over the years have purchased 2000 33 1/3 LP'S or more with many fillers as the industry called the many tracts of junk foisted on us pay back is a dirty word to them the artests were the ones I alys felt sory for.
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18. May 2011 @ 18:49 |
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Originally posted by john_swan:
A true friend shows up on moving day with a truck to help you move.
A friend helps you move. A *true* friend helps you move a body... ;-)
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