Re: Warning Copy protected audio CD's & RiscOS

Date: 14 Jul 2003 09:41:38 -0700
Newsgroups: comp.sys.acorn.misc
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Kade Hansson <email-address-deleted> wrote in message news:<email-address-deleted>...
>
> Hm, have the music labels considered that I might not be alone in
> diverting the money I used to spend on CDs to the next generation of
> media? So it may not be file swapping after all that's eating into their
> bottom line...
All too frequently, music videos and other materials are just seen by
record companies as a "promotional tool". That's a shame since there
are quite a few good music videos, and it's quite possible that many
people actually want to be able to buy them - after all, if the video
sold the song (according to record industry analysts) then the video
may well be a saleable thing in itself. Moreover, many people now have
the equipment to be able to play music videos conveniently, provided
they aren't in a blatantly proprietary format (eg. Quicktime, Windows
Media).
Now, given the fact that the average music video is larger in terms of
file size than the average music track, one would think that the
inclination to swap such things would be reduced - not everyone has
free, unlimited broadband access. So, one might think that the record
companies would have tried to get into a technology race with their
"consumers" in order to remain ahead of the game and to keep selling
units.
I don't think it's unfair to say that the real reason for the decline
of music industry revenues has less to do with casual file swapping
than it has to do with a basic business principle that they seem to
have forgotten: stop listening to your customers and they will stop
doing business with you.
Paul