Who’s the pirate here?\u00c2\u00a0 Is it the public acquiring music in new ways that Universal won’t monetize or is it this ancient man running around behind the scenes trying to hold up technologists for cash?<\/p>\n
If your future model is based on being paid by the HARDWARE manufacturer, then why don’t food companies get a slice of stove sales?\u00c2\u00a0 Better yet, why don’t television producers get a slice of TV sales?\u00c2\u00a0 Why don’t content producers get a slice of every playback device known to man?\u00c2\u00a0 BECAUSE THAT’S NOT WHERE THE MONEY IS!<\/p>\n
This is like some bizarre Mafia movie.\u00c2\u00a0 Wherein the producer of the product, in this case Microsoft, has to pay to function, even though what they’re doing is COMPLETELY LEGAL!<\/p>\n
Yes, the Rio case solved this issue.\u00c2\u00a0 MP3 players are totally legal.\u00c2\u00a0 You can make them with impunity.\u00c2\u00a0 The fact that they can contain illegally acquired music IS NOT THE PURVEYOR’S FAULT!<\/p>\n
But Microsoft, with ENDLESS cash, pays Universal.\u00c2\u00a0 Rather than giving them the middle finger, like Apple did.<\/p>\n
But Apple is a monopolist too, you say!\u00c2\u00a0 With their Fairplay DRM!<\/p>\n
One, you can buy from others.\u00c2\u00a0 Two, you can burn to disc and get rid of the DRM.\u00c2\u00a0 THREE, the reason there’s copy protection is because the labels INSISTED!\u00c2\u00a0 Remove the copy protection and you remove the advantage!<\/p>\n
Microsoft wants in.\u00c2\u00a0 So they pay protection.\u00c2\u00a0 They could go to the police, say they’ve got the right to do what they want, but the system is ineffective, and it takes a long time to get results.<\/p>\n
But oh, you say, they want to sell Universal’s tunes at their store?<\/p>\n
Well, Apple faced the same problem in Japan.\u00c2\u00a0 BMG wouldn’t license to their store.\u00c2\u00a0 So the Cupertino company STARTED WITHOUT THEM!\u00c2\u00a0 And once BMG saw the juggernaut, they signed on.\u00c2\u00a0 THAT’S how you do business, not by capitulating to back room bullies who are gonna beat you up.<\/p>\n
The key is not to take a sliver from device sales, but to charge for the acquisition of files to FILL that device.\u00c2\u00a0 By legalizing P2P.\u00c2\u00a0 By starting stores with cheap prices and NO copy protection.\u00c2\u00a0 But rather than be innovative, Doug Morris just wants his piece.<\/p>\n
A piece he normally doesn’t SHARE with the artists.<\/p>\n
What about that MP3.com money?\u00c2\u00a0 What about that SpiralFrog money?\u00c2\u00a0 What about that YouTube money?\u00c2\u00a0 Made on the backs of artists, but going straight to the company’s bottom line.\u00c2\u00a0 Giving up fifty per cent of the action to artists on Zune sales is like Pablo Escobar building soccer fields in Medellin.<\/p>\n
But it’s all academic.\u00c2\u00a0 Because the Zune is gonna fail.\u00c2\u00a0 Just read the reviews.\u00c2\u00a0 As for that 58% who said they were interested?\u00c2\u00a0 FALSE REPORT!\u00c2\u00a0 Just check it out here: <\/p>\n
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