First of all Artist do not make much off of album sales. They make there money off of concerts and the like. So when people download a song and like, they might go to the concert, so it can be useful to the artist. The problem is the cost of CD's hasn't come down. And the answer is not Apple's music downloading idea. I am not gonna pay 99 cents per song. If I did that I'd have to pay nearly $3,000. I think the real problem here is the inflexibility if the music industry. They want it there way or no way. All the people who run the industry just want the money. They don't see that music is more then just a way of making money.
Exellent point. I'm not going to sit here and try to justify downloading music from kazaa because it's illegal and I know it,but the music industry is partially responsible for this craze. They have been infelxible in the past and continue to be that way now. They learned nothing from the whole Napster fiasco. Instead of rolling with the technology and using it to THEIR advantage they tried to shun it and shut it down which only created a bigger issue out of it with the new generation of p2p programs. What they need to do is similar to the apple thing but cheaper. I mean 99 cents a song costs more than buy an entire cd out of the store sometimes. IMO back during the Napster deal they should have setup a subscription site where you pay per month (price could be set depending on usage) but make it cheaper than buying a cd. CD Burners and broadband are in many many homes now so think about the overhead the record companies could cut by doing this...less cd's to produce+same steady sales=more money for the companies.
I also blame a part of this on artists. I started using napster back in the day because I got tired of spending 18 bucks on a cd that had 2 good songs on it. With pnp I can download more songs and see if the cd is even worth buying to me and especially with newer groups (if the whole album is good) I will support them by buying the cd. Bottom line: if the artists stopped putting out so many crap cds with garbage for filler and put out 100% quality EVERYTIME I think it would cut the downloading and burning down SOME.
Until they music industry decides to embrace technology instead of trying to beat it down they will constanly be trying to stop these sort of things because as soon as Kazaa goes down there will be a ton of new era pnp programs to replace it.
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