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Originally Posted by mac black  Its the same as illegal downloads, why do you think everyone in the business earns less ?
Why is the business in such a crisis? |
The recording industry is in decline because people don't want to pay for something they're used to getting for free, and labels are too stubborn to shift their methods of distribution to meet today's demand. If artists made their albums available to download for free, supplemented with advertising income, they'd probably be better off. for example, allowing someone to download an album for free, but have them watch a 30 second commercial before they download each song. You get paid per song for advertising income by the corporation, your fans get to download music for free, and everyone's happy. But instead of coming up with new ideas, the labels decided to just sue everyone instead. Thus, alienating their consumers even further.
Waves is digging themselves deeper into this same hole by suing their market base instead of switching to a hardware-software interface platform. Suing people just makes them not want to deal with you or your company. It doesn't make people stop using what they can get for free.