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["Josep L. Guallar-Esteve" <jlguallar AT maduixa.net>]

Excerps from 
http://www.calendarlive.com/top/1,1419,L-LATimes-Movies-X!ArticleDetail-64586,00.html

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" So why are movies and video games booming while the music business, pop 
culture's trend-setter of the past several decades, is in such a funk? The 
people who run record companies gloomily blame the Internet. But if you ask 
music and movie lovers, you get a very different answer. Consumers adore 
DVDs, which offer cool packaging and lots of interactive extras; they loathe 
CDs, which they say are grossly over-priced and padded with filler. "

"... top music executives, such as Jim Urie, president of Universal Music and 
Video Distribution, still contend that CDs are a great product.

"The dissing of CDs is just a ridiculous self-justification for stealing the 
music," Urie says. "I hate to see what's going to happen when DVD burning 
becomes as prevalent as burning CDs. How are people going to justify stealing 
a movie by saying it isn't any good after the movie's already a $100-million 
hit?"

Urie says his company doesn't heavily research consumer attitude, noting, "We 
tend to ask how can we make more money and sell more product, not deal with 
consumer gripes." 

(...)

"...Craig Kornblau, president of Universal Studios Home Video...."

" Believing he should get to know his enemy, Kornblau is bringing his son 
into 
the office to meet his marketing team and show them the sites he visits. "If 
he's grown up downloading music, imagine what it'll be like with the kid 
who's grown up downloading movies," he says. "It isn't that far away."

It sounds awfully ominous until you recall that when Sony introduced the VCR, 
it was sued by Universal, who claimed that unlawful copying would destroy the 
movie business. The business not only survived, but thanks to DVD, it's 
flourishing. In the entertainment business, it's fashionable to talk doom and 
gloom but sometimes it's darkest just before the dawn. "

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So the film industry adapted once, is adapting now and it will adapt in the 
future. On the other hand, music industry disregards the consummer, keeps 
pushing proizes up and blame change for their loss of sells.

Interesting.

For myself, I'm finding that the music that I like to buy tends to be old and 
that I already have listen to. So down with (current) music biz!



Salut,
Josep
-- 
Josep L. Guallar-Esteve, QA-Test Engineer, Red Hat, Inc.
http://www.ibiblio.org/sinner/