“AUSTRALIANS are crazy about music. By year end, we’ll have bought 50 million singles and 37 million albums.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
“That’s 50 per cent more music than we consumed in 2005 and it doesn’t even include the millions of songs we stole via the internet.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
So, what they are saying is that the music industry is doing 50% better than it was six years ago – (irrespective of illegal downloads) – and they still say that it is all slowly killing the industry?<\/p>\n
Huh?<\/p>\n
Here’s a better idea – drop your prices to reasonable levels, and people won’t even steal your content. As soon as the price of legally purchasing your content is effectively less<\/i> than what it costs people to download it – (for free or otherwise) – people won’t want to download it for free.<\/p>\n
Because it will be cheaper for them, and you’ll sell a lot more units.<\/p>\n
It isn’t downloads that are killing your industry – it is your own overpricing greed and lack of vision that’s doing it.<\/p>\n
Not the people…but you!<\/p>\n
Screw you music industry!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
We’ve heard a lot lately about how piracy and music downloads are supposedly killing the music industry. How all those nasty people downloading music for free are “taking the caviar off the 50-foot marble dining tables” of the recording artists, and leaving them to cope with “only 17 bathrooms in their palatial mansions”. Poor snookums. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[33,283,402],"class_list":["post-4433","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology","tag-afact","tag-iitrial","tag-onlinepiracy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelwyres.com.au\/mwdc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4433","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelwyres.com.au\/mwdc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelwyres.com.au\/mwdc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelwyres.com.au\/mwdc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelwyres.com.au\/mwdc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4433"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/michaelwyres.com.au\/mwdc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4433\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelwyres.com.au\/mwdc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4433"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelwyres.com.au\/mwdc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4433"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelwyres.com.au\/mwdc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4433"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}