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Re: Why the RIAA wants the ISPs to be Judge and Executioner
I doubt Jim needs much of anything or has for decades... 
You may have inadvertently tripped over a major distinction here with "but it's not like free FM-radio play really hurt concert and merchandising sales". Revenues from concert tickets and merchandising sales rarely go to the record label...they are a primary revenue source for most bands though.
I know what you meant though. I have six shiny new CDs received as Christmas presents which I would never have even considered purchasing were it not for Internet radio, specifically Radio Paradise. The RIAA jams fingers in ears and hums loudly when approached with such proof of induced sales, which pretty much defines the problem.
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| said by RadioDoc  :You may have inadvertently tripped over a major distinction here with "but it's not like free FM-radio play really hurt concert and merchandising sales". Revenues from concert tickets and merchandising sales rarely go to the record label...they are a primary revenue source for most bands though. Yeah, I didn't know that.
But today's labels don't develop talent, either, do they? I know that 50-30 years ago, after an act was discovered, there was actual training and development involved.
So their services are probably less. Concerts do sell CDs -- I bought a CD this summer in a subway out of a guitar case. It was a a-capella doo-wop trio from Philadelphia called "the Underwoods" -- they were hosting an impromptu show and were quite good!
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