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Good Luck! Download is the future

I just saw a Sony mp3 player that can hold an amazing 20gb. That is right 20gb! Now when you can carry something like that around and fill it full of hundreds of hours of music, it tells me the cd is dead.

At some point new music will never make it to a cd but simply be posted on a download music store.

The answer as to why all these companies are trying to do this is simple: The average copyright fee per song is something like $.05 so a song for sale on download for say $1.00 represents a product that you can sell for a 950% markup! Besides jewelry and designer clothes (Which fetch about a 500% mark-up) I know of nothing that even comes close to those type of margins. In addition the cost of a server and setting up a website is virtually nothing compared to the cost of building a brick and morter store. When the costs for running such a store are spread over a few million downloads the actual cost are probably less than $.02 per song. So ridiculously high margins with virtually no costs make a pretty attactive business model.

As far as copyright violations go. The Riaa are a bunch of loud mouthed spoiled brats. I would venture to say 98% of the population have no idea where to find all the bootleg soft. In my opinion less then 2%, if even that much of sales are affected by downloading. I happen to know where there is terabytes of the stuff available but most people I know have no idea how to even find even a kilobyte of warez.

The bottom line is that eventhough there are those savy individuals that have collected tons of music via the internet most of the public continue to buy it, or all the industries that sell digital media would be out of business by now.

The major obstacle to online sales right now is consumer friendliness. Consumers want something simple like an analog cassette, that once bought could be copied at will and listened to anywhere.
The consumer does not want restricted music files in special formats with special players and soft needed. They want to download, burn to disc, or copy to mp3 player and play anywhere. They sure as hell don't want some vendor to set some arbritrary number of allowed copies that you can make an no more. (After all are they god? Where do they get off deciding what number is ok and what is not?)

Posted by: Robertbrice   Posted on: 09/19/04 You are currently: a Guest | Members login | Terms of Use

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