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Strategies & Market Trends : Heinz Blasnik- Views You Can Use -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: GraceZ who wrote (1790)	5/24/2003 12:01:58 PM
From: MulhollandDrive	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 4912

>>Bad for those offset guys<< >>A lot of this stuff is being produced inhouse<< (setting your particular skillset aside..i'm sure you have a well established and growing market based upon the quality of your work) the creative destruction of jobs is very much in play ....and yes with that comes new opportunities... but to give you an idea of how resistant (rightfully so if you think self preservation still the primary operator of human motivation).....look at the continuing battle between the RIAA and the consumer. they know full well that the creation of the new distribution channel of online music and the ability of consumers to burn their own cd's will destroy jobs... they want to force their market (their buyers) into their specific business model entirely based on the selling of the compact disc in a physical format within a physical structure (even accounting for internet sales...all those cd's are being handled and warehoused somewhere)...by limiting distribution in this way, it gives them a relative amount of pricing power. (read janis ian's website for an insider's look at the struggle to protect the status quo) janisian.com ultimately there will an enterprisng corporate entity (in this case so far it seems to be aapl) that will stay within the legalities of copyright infringement issues and provide consumers the market they demand. i agree with you that this will create a "new demand" situation, but it can be argued that it will adversely affect existing markets....if the RIAA thought the existing business models would not be adversly affected they would be promoting online distribution, not fighting it every step of the way. (personally i think .99/song is too high, but ultimately as more players get into the field, that will drop <vbg> i'd like to discuss this with you further at some point if you wish, but i have log off for the day...