willyhoops;200958 Wrote: > Thats a nice story and its keeping sales alive at the moment. But when > the consumer looses all interest in physical CDs, why would he download > a free lossless CD and then like it and then buy exactly the same thing > again. RIAA reports sales by value including both CDs and Digital > downaloads as down 6.5% in 2006 and year on year falls in several > previous years as well. But in a future without DRM the numbers are > expected to get much worse. When you buy from allofmp3.com or file > share artists and record companies get nothing. Hence the move away > from selling music to making money off live tv and events being tested > by the major lables. This is disasterous for smaller artists.
Would you please stop saying this? Especially the bit about "disasterous for smaller artists", unless you can really provide some backup for it! I've pointed out before that falling revenues for the major labels are an empty argument. If music-buying dollars are being more heavily distributed to independent labels and artists directly (ie. emusic.com is good evidence), that is a good thing for smaller artists! If you mean smaller artists trying to make it big via the major labels, maybe they just need to take another look at their approach - there are other options out there! -- nicketynick Wireless SB3, Denon DRA-F101, Mission M31 loudspeakers WinXP SP2 Slimserver, SMC WBR14g router http://www.last.fm/user/nicketynick/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------ nicketynick's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=1511 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=34928 _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/audiophiles
