CDs Dying Out, But So Are Many Music Downloading Stores
from the makes-sense dept
I doubt this is all that surprising to most people, but Forrester is predicting a shift from the CD to buying downloadable music, while at the same time predicting that about half of the current music download stores will go out of business by the end of the year. I think they're being a bit optimistic on both predictions. I'm still not convinced the CD is going to go away that quickly. While I also agree that many of the music download stores aren't long for this world, I'd be surprised if most of the current ones didn't at least make it through a year - but perhaps not much longer than that.
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Forrester = idiot
No SACD, no DVD-A, no downloading.
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Re: Forrester = idiot
In this case the guy from Forrester has "lost" quite a bit of music. He claims that CD's will be obsolete in 5 years, and that downloads will account for one-third of all music sales. So where will the other two-thirds of music sales come from?
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Re: Forrester = idiot
I wonder if anyone has ever done a study of just how accurate these analysts are over the long run.
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Why not one store that does both?
This isn't illegal, and it isn't what MP3.com tried to do. It's simply transferring fair use digital archives from one owner to another. The store would be obliged to delete the MP3s once they'd been downloaded by the customer.
It seems like an obvious step. Anyone know anyone doing this?
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24/96
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Bye bye CD
Young generations of kids today don't think that way about music, don't approach music from an "I must have a discular thingy with 10 or 12 songs on it", nor do they in general listen to radio. Those are old concepts by old people.
25 years into the future the youth that are grown then will have completely rewritten the whole music-for-consumption thought process from the ground up, and all the old, dusty diehards still alive and clinging to their disc-type objects will be irrelevant in shaping what exists at the time.
The biggest noise and resistance re CD's dying out, as is usual, comes from those who are making their living peddling the atrocious little things, and who can't accept change. As for the sites selling downloads, all they have to do is come up with the monthly bill for some bandwidth, quite unlike having to have a building, tons of insurance for every idiotic thing a bunch of humans can do in a store, etc., etc. They just don't have the tiniest fraction of hassles and overhead associated with a brick&mortar business.
Of course, what I'll miss most about not having CD's around someday, is the wonderful packaging; having to find a knife, or car-key or screwdriver to rip it open; then taking that clever little sticker off along the edge, which always rips into a thousand sticky pieces in your hand trying to get it off, and leaving a gluey residue on your brand new purchase. The guy that dreamed that up should have a CD shoved up %$&...well you get the idea. Cheers
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Bye bye CD
Young generations of kids today don't think that way about music, don't approach music from an "I must have a discular thingy with 10 or 12 songs on it", nor do they in general listen to radio. Those are old concepts by old people.
25 years into the future the youth that are grown then will have completely rewritten the whole music-for-consumption thought process from the ground up, and all the old, dusty diehards still alive and clinging to their disc-type objects will be irrelevant in shaping what exists at the time.
The biggest noise and resistance re CD's dying out, as is usual, comes from those who are making their living peddling the atrocious little things, and who can't accept change. As for the sites selling downloads, all they have to do is come up with the monthly bill for some bandwidth, quite unlike having to have a building, tons of insurance for every idiotic thing a bunch of humans can do in a store, etc., etc. They just don't have the tiniest fraction of hassles and overhead associated with a brick&mortar business.
Of course, what I'll miss most about not having CD's around someday, is the wonderful packaging; having to find a knife, or car-key or screwdriver to rip it open; then taking that clever little sticker off along the edge, which always rips into a thousand sticky pieces in your hand trying to get it off, and leaving a gluey residue on your brand new purchase. The guy that dreamed that up should have a CD shoved up %$&...well you get the idea. Cheers
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CDs , RIAA, Ripping, Downloading
As far as internet company's getting popular ... I doubt that will happen either and people dont wanna pay for a song for 99 cents when they have to give their credit card info.
RIAA needs to eat my A** . They seriously need to get a life they want us to continue purchasing cds to be legit and it seems like every time I want to be "LEGIT" I go to purchase a cd I lost or want and they tell me "I'M SORRY IT'S OUT OF PRINT" ... What does that mean ??? So they are telling us to buy cds to be "LEGIT" but you can't buy them...
As Far as "COPYING & RIPPING"... My personal feelings are until they learn to keep everything on hand everywhere ... Don't as me to be "LEGIT".. Until they learn how to carry everything at my disposal. I'm getting so tired of going to the record stores and trying to be "LEGIT" and can't buy what I want...And lower the price of CDs to 5-7 dollars since the only pay a few cents to make... So this is from me to the great RIAA "Leave People Alone About COPYING & RIPPING...
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