Let’s Sell Recorded Music! Part1: Here We Are Now, Entertain Us
Posted by Jonathan Robinson — October 25. 2008
Elephants in the room...[Dave Harrison]
Elephants in room: often felt that one of them was the Live music scene. People like spending their money there and getting the albums for free. The two industries are quite seperated still.
Posted by Jonathan Robinson — October 25. 2008
Handbag lifting moments...[Ritch Ames]
...some really interesting stats from Feargal - and some great handbag lifting moments from the panel 
For me, adding new "exciting" content to new "exciting" digital music stores will still attract those that are already buying legitimately online - those that don't will still download this new exciting content from the bit torrents / file swap / Hard Drive swaps because they are free.
Its the same when we were younger - taping stuff off the radio, taping your mates new album.. the problem now is that you are effectively mates with everyone in the digital world..."home taping is killing music"...did anyone take any notice of that?
I know loads of people of all ages that download everything for free, and would never dream of buying a record again...but, if they like what they hear, they are likely to check them out live, and legitimately buy tickets to do so...so maybe a controversial way of looking at downloading music for free is as airplay...and maybe addressing it that way to get money to the songwriters through PRS / MCPS is the way forward.
But just as Napster was shut down and made legit, as soon as Torrents are no longer free, something else will come along.
It annoys me that people think an album for under a £10 is not value for money, yet they'll happily part with more than that to buy a DVD that they'll watch once, and have stuck on the shelf for years.
For me, adding new "exciting" content to new "exciting" digital music stores will still attract those that are already buying legitimately online - those that don't will still download this new exciting content from the bit torrents / file swap / Hard Drive swaps because they are free.
Its the same when we were younger - taping stuff off the radio, taping your mates new album.. the problem now is that you are effectively mates with everyone in the digital world..."home taping is killing music"...did anyone take any notice of that?
I know loads of people of all ages that download everything for free, and would never dream of buying a record again...but, if they like what they hear, they are likely to check them out live, and legitimately buy tickets to do so...so maybe a controversial way of looking at downloading music for free is as airplay...and maybe addressing it that way to get money to the songwriters through PRS / MCPS is the way forward.
But just as Napster was shut down and made legit, as soon as Torrents are no longer free, something else will come along.
It annoys me that people think an album for under a £10 is not value for money, yet they'll happily part with more than that to buy a DVD that they'll watch once, and have stuck on the shelf for years.
Posted by Al Mobbs — October 29. 2008
Re: Handbag lifting moments...[Ritch Ames]
I guess it takes longer to download a whole DVD and time is valuable. I think this also applies to people downloading single songs instead of whole albums. Bite size, fast and immediacy of content.
