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Well-deserved losses
In the part about downloaded music not making up for decreased CD sales, they forgot to mention the part about so many popular bands going into the studio with three good new songs and then being forced to fill up a CD with ten more pieces of what makes the grass grow green so the record behemoths can extract $18 from fans for those three good songs.

The San Francisco Symphony years ago gave up on them and has been producing its own recordings, recently winning Best Orchestral and Best Classical Grammies. Other orchestras have done likewise, which has probably not even been noticed by the record behemoths, who are focused on selling a kapillion copies of a hot CD over a short period while getting on radio's computer-generated playlists and then moving on. Pop and rock artists are currently more dependent on the record behemoths' distribution system, but eventually they might figure out how to self-produce or organize their own cooperatives, which would give the record behemoths what they deserve.

Before anyone takes Mr. Gewecke's rhetoric too seriously, let's not forget he thought it was a good idea to produce five million music CDs that infect victims' computers with performance degrading rootkits that can not be removed. His talk about more opportunities to monetize the music is about more income for his corporation. His silence on developing artists and audiences is deafening. And there's Apple. They say they want to eliminate Digital Restrictions Management but won't let any other online store or music player use their technology. Pay no mind to Apple's or the record behemoths' self contradictions and blatant contempt for artists and audiences.
Posted by: AES2   Posted on: 02/28/07 You are currently: a Guest | Members login | Terms of Use
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NonZealot...  MacVet | 02/27/07
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Your priceless quote is BS  mrlinux | 02/27/07
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hypocrisy...  mrlinux | 02/28/07
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iPod Borg  KrUshPruF | 02/28/07
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Consumers have spoken, DRM is dead as a business model.  TripleII | 02/27/07
Couldnt have said it better.!!!!  mrlinux | 02/28/07
Bad news guys  tic swayback | 02/28/07
Look at it this way fella's  Laff | 02/28/07
"There's more opportunities to monetize the music."  ejhonda | 02/28/07
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Sony's technological solutions  GrumpyOldMan | 02/28/07
A hundred years ago...  Henry Miller | 02/28/07
Record companies still don't get it  jtg61 | 02/28/07
The answer is right under their noses...  BitTwiddler | 02/28/07
the brilliant idiot  shraven | 02/28/07
Music companies already have the best marketing...  Anton Philidor | 02/28/07
Music DRM and Revenue  Jaytmoon | 02/28/07
Well-deserved losses  AES2 | 02/28/07
I'm late to the party so this probably won't get read but...  Beat a Dead Horse | 03/01/07

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