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posted by [personal profile] eftychia at 05:26am on 2007-03-17 under

"Several years ago, [digital rights management was] all everyone in the adult industry was asking about. Then, they pretty much decided universally that the frustration on the consumer end and the loss of sales did not make it worth the amount of lost product sales (to theft)." -- John Halcyon Styn ([livejournal.com profile] halcyonpink), quoted in "Smut set still teaching retail crowd" by Ashlee Vance in The Register, 2007-03-15.

Vance follows the Styn quote with the observation, "Here's us guessing the music and film industry would prefer to make life tougher on consumers and lose sales."

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posted by [identity profile] jmthane.livejournal.com at 11:51am on 2007-03-17
Unfortunately, with what the music and film industry are doing, it not only makes life tougher on consumers but also us small, independent, no-record-label musicians as they make it too expensive for the small, independent 'netcaster to play our stuff...
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posted by [identity profile] dptwisted.livejournal.com at 04:15pm on 2007-03-17
Interesting vicious circle they have going. The more they crack down on consumers, the less they buy. Then they cite their declining sales to theft and crackdown harder. Which drops sales even more.

I always maintained that in copyright law, the RIAA was winning the battle to lose the war.
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posted by [identity profile] dglenn.livejournal.com at 04:24pm on 2007-03-17
It seems to me that this is a close parallel to the death spiral that starts with, "Sales|memberships|subscriptions are down, so we have to economize by dropping features|services|sections." Then as more customers leave and the revenue stream shrinks farther, more of the bits the remaining customers are there for get cut and more of them leave.

Same thinking applied to a different aspect of the business?
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posted by [identity profile] madbodger.livejournal.com at 03:55am on 2007-03-18
The RIAA have admitted in public that they think CDs should cost more. Well played,
idiots.
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posted by [identity profile] garnet-rattler.livejournal.com at 02:58am on 2007-03-19
Gee, I seem to remember that when CDs first came out and it became clear that the cost of volume production was nil, they promised that prices would be cut a factor of ten compared to records and tapes. Then they back-tracked to 'less than tapes', which they made sort of true by Raising the price of cassettes to more than double the old levels.

Now that everyone has mostly replaced all of the albums they really want to, sales are heading back to the levels of most of the past century, about two albums (CDs) per year per person. That being half of the level During the replacement process, they expect Us to support their 'sales projections' smoke and mirror crap While they vilify us, legally and otherwise. Idiots indeed!
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