Apple’s IPod Success<\/a><\/p>\nYou can’t stop people from trading music.\u00c2\u00a0 Absolutely impossible.\u00c2\u00a0 EVERYTHING
can be ripped via analog means, EASILY, and then distributed freely
digitally.\u00c2\u00a0 Via all the means I delineated above.\u00c2\u00a0 The key is to focus on the easiest
way to distribute music and monetize that.\u00c2\u00a0 Which is what Thomas Middelhoff
attempted to do by funding the original Napster.<\/p>\n
But other majors sued to shut the company down.\u00c2\u00a0 And then sued for copyright
infringement damages.\u00c2\u00a0 Assuming they win, whatever monies they recover will be
DWARFED by whatever would have been collected by licensing Napster and
charging people to trade music for the past SIX YEARS!<\/p>\n
Whatever money I had six years ago I’ve spent.\u00c2\u00a0 I’ve got the music I
downloaded from Napster, but you can’t get it from me now, because the
money’s all gone.<\/p>\n
The labels want to keep the old paradigm in place.\u00c2\u00a0 While trying to build a
new system, via iTunes and\/or Yahoo\/Napster\/Rhapsody, they’re leaving BILLIONS
on the table.\u00c2\u00a0 Meanwhile, not even a million people are subscribing to each of
the tethered download services.\u00c2\u00a0 In any other industry this would be
considered a colossal failure and purveyors would seek new means of distribution.\u00c2\u00a0
Only in the record business, where non-tech-savvy baby boomers make decisions
based on decades-old models, is this untrue.<\/p>\n
Kids and twentysomethings may not control record companies, but they DO
control the Internet, they DO control the modern means of distribution.\u00c2\u00a0 Keep
alienating them, keep delivering what they don’t want, keep suing them.\u00c2\u00a0 As Dr.
Phil would say, IS IT WORKING FOR YOU?<\/p>\n
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