[BC] music industry woes

[DHultsman5 at aol.com]

In a message dated 10/21/2007 5:19:21 PM Central Daylight Time, 
rorban at earthlink.net writes:

> The problem is simple -- you can't 
> compete with "free." The last statistic that I saw indicated that 
> paid downloads were less than 2% of total downloads; the rest were pirated.
> 
> 

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There will always be some form of pirates,  CD's, DVD's  Betmax, & VHS.

But there will also be folks that are willing to purchae the movies.   
Remember before the Betamax and VHS invasion of our households,  the software 
producers wanted to put their movies on CED's or LaserDisc's with scramblers.   

Same went for the Microvision on Betamax and VHS movie tape to jam up copying 
to another tape.

Same for HBO and SHowtime,  they didn't want to rent to anyone but cable 
companies, certainly not and guy that wanted to pay a monthly charge for one dish 
and one customer.

The comes the music industry  with the increase in customer prices on CD's 
musch dissappointment in the number of lousy selections include with one or two 
hit songs out of 12 tracks for $15.00,   Of the costs also went up as now to 
have a hit record you need a Music Video which cost a bunch to produce.

As I mention Hunsinger wantyed to make CD's legitimately in the Block Buster 
Record stores,  they nixed that real quick.

Well what happened with all of the above?????????

THE INDUSTRIES CHANGED

Betamax died but Sony bought Columbia Pictures and added a $1.00 tax to every 
Video tape for 20 years.   Macrovision and all other scramblers have been 
compromised by hackers.

The Video industry they were so worried about is now a larger money maker in 
after market release legitimate videotape sales.

HBO Showtime an all of the other satellite providers compromised and let 
DirectTV and many other companies deliver their software direct satellite to 
homes.   The income numbers are astounding.

The CED's and Laser Vision are gone replaced by DVD's and are much cheaper 
and they are again making money.

The music industry took over 15 years to embrace the internet and license 
downloads.  By the time they decided to license music downloads it seems that 
everyone had already downloaded music from the internet and never subscribed to 
any service.

Sames with the pirate satellite TV direct to home industry which was priced 
out of business by Hughes, Direct-TV, RCA and others for direct satelllite TV 
to home.

The biggest loser in all of this is the federal and state governments.  Since 
the internet is essentially not taxed.

The winner is the consumer.

Dave


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