This is hilarious. They complain about losing money, when their earnings are up. Now they want ISP’s to take the blame? Oh, this is just too perfect for the MAFIAA. They get the cash, and everyone else does the work. What I find troubling is that ISP’s are going along with this. Who on earth would want that kind of responsibility? When computer gurus find a way around whatever they implement, the ISP’s will take the heat. The only winner here is the MAFIAA.

Well of COURSE they’re losing money!  The recording industry desperately wants to cling to the antiquated model of people buying 12 song CDs for $17, rather than individually buying only the songs they want for $1.  As frightening as France’s ruling is, it’s nice to see that there are other countries besides the U.S. whose leaders are in the lobbyist’s pockets.

Yeah, centralized government for the lose.

...The problem I have with all this is that for years the music industry was begged for years to do what is right by people. I remember in the 80’s when an album cost about 8 US dollars. Then the price kept creeping up. Until they were close to 12 US dollars. Then Congress started to ask questions about the the rise in price but no difference in product. Then all of a sudden compact disks popped up. Instead of 10 tracks on an album you got any were from 12 to sixteen per disk and the price of music shot up to any were from 12 US dollars to 18 and beyond. The problem with this is.... Yes you got more songs (… to me more didn’t mean better) but the price to produce the CD was dirt cheap to the music industry. Do you think they passed the cost back to the consumer??? No, Why??? Because they had a monopoly. There were no more then five major companies along with there lobbyist in congress making all the rules while we the consumer had no choice but to sit back and watch it all happen. I remember when the customer had a little comfort by the way of going to places that let you trade in your old CD’s for credit towards the price of a new one. There you could buy old and new CD’s alike. As soon a the music industry got wind of it they threaten the store with.... if you (music stores) didn’t stop the practice they (music industry) would stop selling the store new CD’s. That crushed that thought. So if you ask me it been a long time comming for the customer to have a say so in the way they listen and buy music. And don’t give me that crap that we’re hurting the artist when music is cheap or people are sharing it on line. That might be true to a point but it broke my heart to watch TLC go down in the Guinness book of world record as the biggest hip hop group, at that time, of all times just to hear them get up on MTV and said they bearly made a dime off there CD sales. Funny who was crying about hurting the artist then???

A major part of the music industry has become irellevant yet instead of adapting they are going the way of the dinosaurs.

Famous musicians (Madonna, Avril), who by the way make the main portion of label proceeds, no longer need the labels and they can cut out the middle man and go direct to consumers.  Those that remain are the ones that sell in the range of tens of thousand and are not viable for the labels to live on alone.

With the wide penetration of the Internet the main choke point labels controlled, namely promotion and distribution are no longer theirs to control.  Whats left is the scouting, management and recording.  With desktop software and private studios even recording is going away.  They need to realize this and act accordingly.

Attempts at ‘legally’ or otherwise resisting such fundamental changes in the environment will not only add them to the endangered species list but totally wipe them out…

The key phrase here is “devaluation of copyrighted music.” The sea change in digital downloads is a market correction due to new technology--we’re seeing the true price now.  All the energy spent on whining and sour grape litigation would be so much better spent getting creative and taking advantage of the EXTREME opportunities available now to make LOTS of money. It’s a great case of Not Realizing Where You Are--complaining they can’t fly during a hurricane.