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Eieiei...früher sind sie ja nur auf die großen Verteiler von illegaler Musik losgegangen, aber wenn es jetzt auch gegen die User geht. Wie will man so ein Massenphänomen denn per Gericht stoppen? Millionen von Usern vor Gericht stellen?
Ich habe vor kurzem im Chill Out was dazu gepostet, was ich hier einfach mal reinkopiere:
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The whole thing about copy protecting music does not go to the root of the problem. The real question we should be discussing is: Why do people copy music? I have two possible answers (altough there might be more than these):
1. Lack of distribution
If I can`t buy the music I want I have no other alternative than to download it or copy it from someone. This is true for most of the livesets/concerts out there, but also for some "normal" CD Productions like the Zurdo Soudtrack by PvD. Why isn`t all music available everywhere? Again we find two possible answers:
First one is the distribution costs. If the distribution costs are higher than the profit you expect from a country where you distribute the music you won`t distribute it there. Possible Solution: Open a new, non physical, distribution channel like the Internet and you will have almost no distibution costs but are able to satisfy the demand from all countries in the world.
Second one is more a legal problem. If you have a liveset with around 10 songs, it is most likely that these 10 songs are from different artists and record companies. Who should be in charge to divide the money equally? How would you divide the money? Length of the track being played? Wouldn`t the costs to establish such an organisation by far exceed the profit?
2. Price for the music
The price for all electronic goods has fallen as soon as the good was mass produced. The only good I can think of at the moment that does not follow this logical path is a CD. CD prices have almost doubled since I bought my first CD somewhen in the eigthies. Why have the costs for a CD risen so much? The simple answer is: The prices that the record companies pay the artists for their work is ever rising. these costs have to added to the price for the CD. For example Robbie Williams got more than 100 Million Euros for his next CD`s and this is not only paid by the people who buy his CD`s but this is also subsidised by the people who buy other CD`s fromthat company from artist who don`t get paid as much as Robbie Williams does. All of this is, of course, only true for the big record companies. The smaller companies have the problem that the demand for their music is too low, so they have to have high prices.
The problem is that people will not buy a CD above a certain price (at least I will not), so it`s the record companies turn to lower prices to boost sales. This can be done by cutting distribution costs (the Internet...), lowering the money the big artists get paid(altough there will always another company that will pay a higher price and the artist will go to this company), by distibuting more widespread to collect all the available demand (again, the Internt) and by offering new products (livesets for sale?). Since all of this would have to be user friendly to be accepted by the people, the record companies will have to work together and create a new platform where you can buy all the music you want to a fair and reasonable price. This would definitely lower the percentage of copied music. At the moment they don`t a cent form copied music. Why not offer music the way the people want it and get a share of that money they loose?
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