[NewMusic] Death of the record industry (cont'd.)

[Cypod]

It isn't entirely the consumers fault, the industry has been slow to react.
Why not have a music licensing scheme on UTube, where people could pay to
license a song to go with their home video. The problem arises when it is
more convenient to steal a song than buy it.

On 9/4/07, David Slusser <slusser at pixar.com> wrote:
>
> On Sep 4, 2007, at 10:43 PM, Sarah - 21 Grand wrote:
>
> > I strongly doubt that. If you look at the housing bubble and the
> > increasing
> > quantity of debt in America, the average family will overspend
> > their means,
> > and if you look at the stuff that they have, quite a bit of their
> > spending
> > is discretionary. Do they need a new car? No. Do their kids need
> > the fancy
> > video game machine? No. Do they need to spend $4 on a frappuchino?
> > No. I'm
> > sure we can all make lists of "stupid" ways people "waste" their
> > money.
> > Personally, I spend too much money going out to eat rather than
> > cooking at
> > home.
> >
> > The fact that it is a lot easier to get music for free makes a lot
> > more
> > sense in terms of declining sales. Let's take parking as an
> > example. If you
> > are used to free parking, or if there is a large supply of
> > accessible free
> > parking, are you going to choose to park somewhere you have to pay?
> > Not very
> > often.
>
> That's the gist of the focus group - music is free.
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