That sounds like my.mp3.com. It's absolutely ridiculous. You try to add value to an organization's product by making it more useful *and* you drive sales directly and they sue you?
Completely wrongheaded, it's just amazing how badly RIAA constituents understand their market. They understand it so badly that now they're outright suing their customers. I worked for PolyGram for some years back in the days when it was owned by Philips and I can tell you from painful firsthand experience that these record companies really are run by out-of-touch technophobic dinosaurs who have not clue one how to sell to today's market and who have their jobs thanks only to nepotism, history, and old-boy-networks. Remember, these are the same men who thought *every* new recording technology would destroy their business (8-Track, Compact Cassettes, DATs, home videotapes, etc, etc) when in fact, history shows that each of these *drove* sales. The fact is that when you give people more ways to enjoy music, they buy more, period. One thing that really struck me about Slimdevices was its obvious understanding of its market. They open-sourced the server, they encourage software emulators, they encourage hacking. This would have scared the s*** out of less clever companies. Allow tuning in of arbitrary internet radio streams? Allow access to music servers outside the local LAN? Allow emulators? Most companies would think this is all maddness, they'd assume the emulator would kill their sales. Well, surprise, people download the open source server, play with the emulator, think "wow, this is pretty cool" and end up buying a bunch of boxes and getting their friends to buy them too. A lot of network music devices do things like not supporting a router, so you can only see servers on your LAN. Some only allow you to tune in net radio stations that have made deals with the device manufacturer. I guess they think this will enhance revenue. One has to wonder where these Marketing folks went to school. What university is handing out MBAs, quite apparently simply for the asking? I think Slimdevices gets their customers so well because they basically are their customers. Sorry, didn't mean for this to be a rant, but I guess I have some feelings about all this... -- rudholm ------------------------------------------------------------------------ rudholm's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=2980 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=20941 _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
