More Sales = More Profit
Trent Reznor (of Nine Inch Nails) gets it:
Now if the RIAA could just get it through their thick skulls: the easier it is to buy music, the more likely people are to buy it. If you make it difficult to buy, people are more likely to pirate it. Like Mr. Reznor, I am at a loss to understand why the RIAA can't comprehend and embrace this very simple principle.
"The USB [drives given away at concerts] was simply a mechanism of leaking the music and data we wanted out there. The medium of the CD is outdated and irrelevant. It's really painfully obvious what people want -- DRM-free music they can do what they want with. If the greedy record industry would embrace that concept I truly think people would pay for music and consume more of it."
Now if the RIAA could just get it through their thick skulls: the easier it is to buy music, the more likely people are to buy it. If you make it difficult to buy, people are more likely to pirate it. Like Mr. Reznor, I am at a loss to understand why the RIAA can't comprehend and embrace this very simple principle.
posted by Jar(egg)head at 08:03
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I heard on the news yesterday that CD sales are down 20% this year which surprises me not an iota. I don't purchase CDs any longer because I don't have to. Why should I spend nearly twenty dollars on a CD when I can enroll in an online music program for eight and enjoy all the music I need to? CDs are going the way of the LP, Eight track and cassette and you are correct, the archaic RIAA and dinosaur artists like Don Henley and Metallica had better embrace the new technology are be trampled by it.
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