On Sun, 18 Aug 2002 11:36:32 +0300 Petri Helenius <pete@he.iki.fi> wrote:
Tim Thorne wrote:
They'd probably end up filing suit for that too. I don't believe that will affect them much. The whole music industry seems to be running scared of new media. They obviously like the revenue from album sales and figure that if people buy only a couple of mp3s tracks they will earn less revenue. Try and buy an mp3 of something from Sony:
http://usa.sonymusic.com/music/catalog.html
File sharing will continue until the recording industry gives people what they want. It is not about piracy, its about convenience.
How do you classify Pressplay in this view?
Pete
Pretty lame. They have only 3 of the 5 "majors", and various restrictions on what you can do, how you can copy downloaded files, etc. See http://www.businessweek.com/technology/content/aug2002/tc20020812_4809.htm for a description of how things stand. Note that pressplay and the other paid services have together maybe 100,000 customers - about 2 to 3 orders of magntitude below the free services. Please remember that the music business is one where bullying and hard ball tactics are routine. They _will_ try to bully ISP's, and, BTW, they _will_ monitor this list and bring e-mails posted to this list up in court if it suits them. In my opinion, it is not until the rear-guard action to stop the use of new technology has failed, and has seen to have failed, that things will improve. This has not happened yet, and things are likely to get uglier and nastier until it does. Regards Marshall Eubanks