| said by skyjock41:
Kazaa will probably die and a new service will show up.
How very true. When Napster was getting pounded by the RIAA, a whole slew of new alternatives popped up to take its place. The p2p software are like cockroaches, if you kill them one at a time, you tend to neglect the fact that there are more just ready to take its place.
I don't think that the record industry will be able to sell a whole lot of mp3s, even if they charge just a quarter a song. I sure as hell won't buy those when I could just use Kazaa and download the songs for free. But if the cds were a bit cheaper ($8-10 each) and came with extras like the way DVDs do, that is something I would buy. The music would sound way better than an mp3 and you would now have extras that would present "value" to the customer. I laugh when the record industry defends their pricing of cds due to "perceived value" even though it costs them less to manufacture a cd versus a tape. |
