Music: Free Content
by Trevor Turk
I found this article to be very interesting: News.com – Free Content. It suggests that music should serve as free content for companies like Sony to push thier products. For example, Sony is rumored to earn more from player hardware than from its own music division. So maybe they want to provide some free music as an incentive to buy thier walkman? If anybody actually reads this, let me know what you think, ok?
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I never paid a dime to Jerry Seinfeld to watch Seinfeld or Ray Romano to watch Everybody Loves Raymond on my Sony TV, and I'm pretty sure Jerry Seinfeld, Ray Romano or Sony would care less I recorded any one or all or their shows on one of Sony's vcr's or dvd recorders, duplicated them and gave them away.
As for the music industry, it is no longer producing those exotic licorice pizzas requiring a diamond needle to extract its magic, it has gotten on the Bill Gates bus with the rest of us and are pumping out, in essence, simply… zeros and ones to the masses.
My advice, RIAA, change your industry's business model because whatever you might believe the law will do to protect you, the hackers and music loving programmers that swarm the internet, will morph the file sharing concept to suit their needs.