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Jason Levine
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Re: on average,
I agree. With Napster they had a centralized system that could have been used to easily track and distribute payments. They could have enticed users in with free low-bitrate copies of the music (say, around FM radio quality), but charged for higher bitrate (e.g. CD quality) versions for the users to download. With a bit of work, the original Napster could have easily become an "iTunes" type of shop only without all of the illegal P2P trading as competition.
Instead, they took the "sue them out of existence until we figure this Internet thing out" approach. They wound up having to compete with a few dozen different P2P networks whose users distribute free (albeit illegal) versions of the same music they're trying to sell. They also wound up (by suing users) with some bad PR.
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King P
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| The sad thing is that online Music doesn't HAVE to be this way. Because the "Industry" is looking to make money at every angle they can, we get crap like DRM and the DMCA. However, part of the blame does lie with the Artist, and I say that only because they don't bother to seek out an alternative, or else they don't care. Most artists have the clout to stand up and say no, but they choose not to. Who can blame them, they have bills to pay just like everyone else, and when they make about 1/10 of the money the labels do (off of THEIR music) who can really blame them.
No one can say that there isn't an alternative, however. See my sig for more details. If WE will spread the word about sites like this, then eventually everyone can benefit from it.
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sivran
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Unfortunately Label CEOs and big good-ol'-boy networks like the RIAA and MPAA can't see beyond the end of their collective snout. When they saw Napster it didn't occur to any of them that this might be the beginning of something new and exciting for their customers and potentially profitable for them the good ol' boys. Just like the good ol' boys of the MPAA saw the VCR as a profit-eating monster instead of a golden goose...
They're late to a game they don't know how to play, and where the other team already has a ten point lead. And they still haven't figured it out.
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raydog1
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| More like, a 1,000,000 point lead. 
The MPAA was hesitant, at first, to go the RIAA "sue them QUICK!" route. It's like someone in the organization (with brains) was saying, "Wait a minute. We can't fight this, but, we could make money off of it!" Unfortunately, there are way too many hands in the pot. . . something that has plagued the movie industry for decades. I think it will take many, many years before they figure out a way to make this work for both the consumer and the money-grubbing execs.  | |
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