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Strategies & Market Trends : Piffer OT - And Other Assorted Nuts -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: The Phoenix who wrote (53582)	9/23/2000 12:17:29 PM
From: Cheeky Kid	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 63513

I know it's about copyright laws. But how do you regulate it? How can you control it? You can put a major dent in illegal trade if the greedy software and music industry would sell their products for realistic prices. When you buy a CD, how many songs on there do you really like? 1, 2 maybe 3. And you pay 19.00 (Canadian) for that CD, and what does it cost to make? .50 cents? One major step in lowering the price is: ELIMINATE THE CURRENT DISTRIBUTION CHAIN Buy right from the artist or the music industry. Get rid of the middle man and you will lower the price. Same with software, if you lower the price, you will put a major dent in the illegal trade. Most software I buy for my Pilot are in the 5-20 dollar range ----> All downloaded, no delivery charges. It's all about money. Lower the price of this over priced commodity and you will almost solve the problem. You can add all the security and anti-copy measures you want to software, music, but the crackers will break it. They are doing it to DVD movies right now. Lower the price. As I predict, most software and music will be distributed via download one day, no more shrink wrap. With high speed connections you can download large files in seconds. These guys will survive, last time I checked MS was still worth a few million, even though countries are selling bootlegged copies of their software. Lower the price! I pay for all my software, and I am very loyal to shareware developers, I pay for ALL of my shareware. Oh, and the record companies are still making piles of money and CD sales are still strong. So why don't they join the digital revolution? Come up with a format that will sound better than MP3, more secure and priced right, per song, and you will put a dent in the illegal trade, you won't eliminate it, because you can't! Copyright infringement of software and music was here long before the Internet, the Internet just made it worse. These companies will survive, believe me. Maybe they should watch David Bowie, he's not scared of the Internet and new technology, he embraces it: davidbowie.com bowiebanc.com PS Maybe one day ALL of the artists will just say screw you to the big record companies and sell their music on-line themselfs. Subject 23995