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- unknown
on how to change the face of music as we know it and beat the RIAA
very very good read
- mitsu0
pffft... no thanks... i'll just keep downloading my music for free.
my idea is packaged media. it's in a tangible form so you actually feel like you are getting something worth value... not just a bit sequence represented by an icon on your hard drive.
the media is readonly and contains the same songs that a regular cd would except now you get mp3's, music videos and other promotional items through html files linked to their online website...
the cost would be about $5 to $10 depending on what you get in the package...
i'd buy that...
- Nirvous0
Im sold, and will stand in line to buy my share.
Brilliant.
- ********0
hmm.. maybe i don't get it...but..
since that will be legal, everyone will accept it as being an ok and fair business, as now many people that download music illegally still buy cd's every now and then.
abd that is where i have my doubts...
you play out the record-companies, but also the artist?? :(
or did i read it too fast?
can somebody explain me that it's legal to see an artist make one album with all his skills, and sell one single copy to 60 million people??
- unknown0
pretty much since the users will own shares in the company......
they get to download the music that the company has on file..
and the company only needs 1 of every cd.
i think like they charge 5 cents to download a song or 50 cents ... and thats how the shares work somehow....
it truely is brilliant
- KingMob0
My only question is how do you become a rockstar under this model? It seems like everyone would be a one-hit wonder...
- ********0
yes, and the artist?
damnit, some of us are artists.. how would you feel?
- Nirvous0
That was addresses (or not addressed) at the end of his pipe dream. I see no way for an artist to make money on this, unless they work out a percentage plan from sales generated.
Still, anything that crushes the RIAA, even a pipe dream like this one gets my naive vote.
- unknown0
since you own shares in teh company..... you are a part owner of the company.. hence you own the CD
like if a company owns a car.... anybody could drive it as long as they are an employee.....
same things... if a company owns 1 cd... all people who have shares... or quote own a part of the company can use that cd
- Bluejam0
The answer is pretty simple.
Bring back vinyl.
- ********0
no, not mine, sorry.
as it will never reorganize to suddenly pay the artists their share as well, people are greedy.
so if you offer it that cheap and people buy shares, it could become very hard to change policy.
kill the RIAA, kill the fat record bastards, but don't kill the artists, please.
next suggestion, please!
- ********0
i meant: not my vote..
hehe, so many posts in between already.
- abba_cadaver0
Im with 4cy on this. How does the artist make money, If every Snapster corp is buying one cd copy to distribute among its shareholders? Even if Snapster only gets a quarter of the market it will effect the artist considerably. Im going to re read it because that seems like too obvious a problem for the author to have missed.
- unknown0
ya.. im going to re read it too....
- unknown0
I know this is going to sound all over the place, but I keep having this thought that we need a massive boycott of the major labels. How that could be pulled off, I'm not sure, because we all want music, and if buying it is the only way to get it then we're going to buy it.
I would just love that record sales were being crippled because no one was buying albums from major labels, and at the same time downloading wasn't really going on. Just flat out refusal to pay so much for a product that costs so little to make.
But you've got to think on the other hand that a good majority of bands selling gold and platinum albums are the crap groups out there like boy bands, Metallica, Spears, Aguliara, etc.I'd just like to see them cry over that.
- unknown0
the only thing i can think of is that somehow by having your cd or music part of this.... you would somehow own shares also.....
or maybe charge 10 cents per song.. and 2 bucks per cd and give the artist half...
that would be what they are getting now with the RIAA anyway....
hell id pay 2 bucks for a cd
- mitsu0
again, drop the prices of the cd or come out with a new multi-media format that includes mp3's as well as music vidoes and other media... sell it cheap, package it nice and many people will buy it....
what you have to do is find the right formula... the cost of this product has to be less in the consumers eye than that of going through the trouble of finding all the media online and then downloading it... not to mention the legal implications...
you mean to tell me you'd rather spend a few hours of your time downloading all of the latest songs from hail to the theif including music videos over spending $5 at best buy for a nice packaged product?
- ********0
Artists can still create art without being rich. If they're good then people will pay to see them live.
I love this idea. It's just based on a technicality of the law, but it is sweet....
- ********0
mitsu I like that idea...
- unknown0
Heres what needs to happen
this model needs to be adopted...
charge 2 bucks an album
or 25 cents a songthe artists gets half
it would make all artists RICH
- Bluejam0
"we need a massive boycott of the major labels. "
Adbusters tries to do that every year, granted they are targeting anything and everything with their 'Buy Nothing Day'. It's the same idea, refuse to pay for things that are overpriced..cars, electronics ...etc.
They have little or no success and some people laugh at them for trying.