http://www.newsome.org/2006/08/reinventing-music-industry/ Kent Newsome on technology, music and life Sun, 05 Feb 2012 23:43:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://www.newsome.org/2006/08/reinventing-music-industry/comment-page-1/#comment-4393 Kate Fri, 25 Aug 2006 22:43:00 +0000 http://clients.emmense.com/newsome/?p=3142#comment-4393 Hear, hear. I started saying a few years ago that the way to battle piracy was to start offering songs at a fixed price (I always said 25 cents, but sometimes I think I'm living in the past in terms of dollar value, sigh). Various people who I waved this at would scoff, saying that piracy meant that model wouldn't work.Well, lo & behold, it seems to be working just fine & dandy. And you are so correct--the record industry is fighting it tooth and claw, and what's going to happen is that they'll be a thing of the past in only a afew years. Or else, they can leap in, start joining the party, figuring out a new business model, and they'll still be in business in a hundred years. Hear, hear. I started saying a few years ago that the way to battle piracy was to start offering songs at a fixed price (I always said 25 cents, but sometimes I think I’m living in the past in terms of dollar value, sigh). Various people who I waved this at would scoff, saying that piracy meant that model wouldn’t work.Well, lo & behold, it seems to be working just fine & dandy. And you are so correct–the record industry is fighting it tooth and claw, and what’s going to happen is that they’ll be a thing of the past in only a afew years. Or else, they can leap in, start joining the party, figuring out a new business model, and they’ll still be in business in a hundred years.

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