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| What does the RIAA/MPAA expect to gain? Do they think if they stop pirating, there is going to be big increase in album sales? People's budgets are magically going to increase to cover spending on cd's and what not?
Not ever album/movie downloaded is a lost sale. I bet a giant percentage wouldn't of bought it otherwise.
The RIAA/MPAA seems to put all this effort in, instead of focusing on great product.
Look at The Dark Knight. The put out a great movie, it smashed box office records, and it smashed bluray/dvd records.
Stop focusing your efforts on frying people that wouldn't pay for your stuff, and focus on putting out good product. | |
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2 edits | Re: What does the RIAA/MPAA expect to gain? Not ever album/movie downloaded is a lost sale. I bet a giant percentage wouldn't of bought it otherwise. said by zod5000:
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| |  KrKHeavy Artillery For The Little GuyPremium
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| Re: What does the RIAA/MPAA expect to gain? No, it's not. Many people download a movie and watch it because they can. If they couldn't download the movie, they aren't going to go buy it because they couldn't download it.
Most downloads do not equal lost sales. In fact evidence suggests that they can actually increase sales by exposing people to something they never would of bought before they experienced it first for free.
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| |  KAD ImagingJust Shoot ItPremium
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Hialeah, FL | said by Transmaster:Not ever album/movie downloaded is a lost sale. I bet a giant percentage wouldn't of bought it otherwise. said by zod5000:This is a bogus argument. In the first place I do not download movies this is the one area where I think I am getting good value for my money. If I like the movie I will purchase the DVD. Why would I download a movie I would not go see or purchase in the first place this is a waste of hard drive space. Bzzt!! WRONG!!
Take for example "Disaster Movie", it was a truly terrible flick. Not a snowballs chance that I would pay $10 not including refreshments (don't get me started on that), or $5 from Blockbuster, $3.99 PPV, and most definitely not $16+ for the DVD.
If I couldn't d\l that movie, I guess I'd see it when it came on FX, USA, or TBS. So no harm, no foul. Download for FREE and pay nothing or see it on Syndicated TV and Pay nothing (well directly anyway) | |
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Mullica Hill, NJ | movies on DVD are a better value then music CDs. i go into a store with 20 bucks im gunna buy a DVD and download a CD because the DVD is better value.
and this is what the industry needs to learn, CDs should be 9 bucks or compairable to an iTunes album because people do ask why spend 15-20 on a music CD with a few good tracks when they can get a dvd with 90min-2hrs or more of entire movie they enjoy and will likely reuse many many times more then the CD.
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| | KAD ImagingJust Shoot ItPremium
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Hialeah, FL | Re: What does the RIAA/MPAA expect to gain? said by Kearnstd 
and this is what the industry needs to learn, CDs should be 9 bucks or compairable to an iTunes album because people do ask why spend 15-20 on a music CD with a few good tracks when they can get a dvd with 90min-2hrs or more of entire movie they enjoy and will likely reuse many many times more then the CD.
[/BQUOTE :Try $24.99 plus at B&M'$ like Sam Goody and FYE. :/ | |
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| | Well, what the RIAA/MPAA hope to gain is...well...more of your money. Well, their lawyers do. They want billable hours.
Look, for the RIAA, record sales are down. Of course they are not going to address the issues that they are turning out music that is a little less than inspiring to the music buying public. One need only look at the summer season concert grosses to find out that it is older acts, many without major label deals, that enjoy some of the largest aggregate box office numbers for the season. That means someone wants to hear that music. Those someone's are people with the money to buy the tickets. Those tickets are selling when those artist's either don't have a new record out, or if they do, that record is on a sub-prime record label with far less distribution efficiency than that enjoyed by the major labels.
Moral of the story? The major record labels big problem with record sales is that instead of signing the artists and releasing the music that people want to hear, they are signing artists and releasing records that aren't selling.
But don't try telling those bright young men and women that stuff. They won't listen. | |
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