Monday, October 24, 2005
Music Industry: ...Cake and eat it too?
Dear Music Industry,
You have to come clean. While you have good reasons to complain about piracy, your greed is not helping matters.
When you sell a music CD, do you expect the buyer not to make any physical or digital copies? Fine, if you want that not to happen, then you should have a free rush delivery service that replaces broken or scratched CDs, and promptly upload the CDs to a buyer's mp3 players and computers. Obviously you will never do any of that...
So the buyers have to protect their purchases by making backup copies (since the music industry won't replace broken or scratched CDs for free), and upload the music to their computers and mp3 players (since the music industry won't do that either).
Or perhaps you are so greedy that you expect a buyer to buy three copies of the same CD so they can play it in their home, car and office?
You have to come clean. While you have good reasons to complain about piracy, your greed is not helping matters.
When you sell a music CD, do you expect the buyer not to make any physical or digital copies? Fine, if you want that not to happen, then you should have a free rush delivery service that replaces broken or scratched CDs, and promptly upload the CDs to a buyer's mp3 players and computers. Obviously you will never do any of that...
So the buyers have to protect their purchases by making backup copies (since the music industry won't replace broken or scratched CDs for free), and upload the music to their computers and mp3 players (since the music industry won't do that either).
Or perhaps you are so greedy that you expect a buyer to buy three copies of the same CD so they can play it in their home, car and office?
