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My understanding is that the record companies are selling more music than ever before...what's killing them revenue wise is that customers are choosing to buy 99 cent singles instead of $15 albums because as a collective whole we got sick of paying $15 for one or two decent songs and another 8-10 songs of filler.
The obvious solution to customers is to produce more songs I'd like to buy.
The obvious solution to the record companies is to scream piracy.
Study after study has shown that people who fileshare more also buy more music. I also wonder if anybody has dared to compare the incidence of online filesharing vs. the old "sneakerNet" days when people made mix tapes and copied their casettes.
As for DRM on books, I love the quote attributed to Cory Doctorow I read today: "Anybody who believes in ebook DRM has never met a typist."
Last edited by BillSmithBooks; 02-14-2012 at 09:43 PM.
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