Comments on: Warner may keep music from iTunes, video games http://distorted-loop.com/2008/08/08/warner-may-pull-music-from-itunes-video-games/ Word-miner, watching iChange since '99. Thu, 17 May 2012 02:28:35 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 By: Aaron http://distorted-loop.com/2008/08/08/warner-may-pull-music-from-itunes-video-games/comment-page-1/#comment-171 Aaron Sat, 09 Aug 2008 21:13:19 +0000 http://distorted-loop.com/?p=769#comment-171 The truth is that the album as it has been is dead. No longer do I want to have to pay for a collection of songs (unless I really love the artist), when in most cases a few songs are really good, and the rest just seems to have been recorded to make an album. The truth is that the album as it has been is dead. No longer do I want to have to pay for a collection of songs (unless I really love the artist), when in most cases a few songs are really good, and the rest just seems to have been recorded to make an album.

]]> By: bud http://distorted-loop.com/2008/08/08/warner-may-pull-music-from-itunes-video-games/comment-page-1/#comment-169 bud Fri, 08 Aug 2008 23:53:09 +0000 http://distorted-loop.com/?p=769#comment-169 If it is available to buy when demand is hot, it will sell. If one has to hunt down the song thru whatever vendor, clicks or bricks, the urge to buy fades, and under the table free distribution takes over. Don't worry so much about How Much to ask for it, or When or Where it can be sold, and just make it available and affordable. The entire file swapping thing started because Radio stopped playing a variety and college kids had to make their own LAN radio. Most of them were not downloading as much as streaming. Oh by the way, the amount of time between promo copies to press and copies available to buy is too long an amount of time. If it is available to buy when demand is hot, it will sell. If one has to hunt down the song thru whatever vendor, clicks or bricks, the urge to buy fades, and under the table free distribution takes over.
Don’t worry so much about How Much to ask for it, or When or Where it can be sold, and just make it available and affordable.

The entire file swapping thing started because Radio stopped playing a variety and college kids had to make their own LAN radio. Most of them were not downloading as much as streaming.

Oh by the way, the amount of time between promo copies to press and copies available to buy is too long an amount of time.

]]> By: :HAn. http://distorted-loop.com/2008/08/08/warner-may-pull-music-from-itunes-video-games/comment-page-1/#comment-168 :HAn. Fri, 08 Aug 2008 19:43:53 +0000 http://distorted-loop.com/?p=769#comment-168 This sounds more like extortion to pay for a full album, on a physical CD when you only really want to download one song. This sounds more like extortion to pay for a full album, on a physical CD when you only really want to download one song.

]]> By: superdevil http://distorted-loop.com/2008/08/08/warner-may-pull-music-from-itunes-video-games/comment-page-1/#comment-167 superdevil Fri, 08 Aug 2008 19:40:00 +0000 http://distorted-loop.com/?p=769#comment-167 "...those are two ecosystems in which (companies who do not invest in creating) recorded music have derived the majority of the value created in that ecosystem,” Isn't that what record companies have been doing for years? Making money off of artists who had no other (until recently) way to get their music out to the masses? "...even though their games are entirely dependent on the content WE OWN AND CONTROL" He's speaking for Warner AND their artists, right? lol And what about Kid Rock? He basically made a song by basing it off of 2 established songs everyone knows, so no wonder its a hit. I guess its OK to for the music industry to feed of it own success in the name of $$$ “…those are two ecosystems in which (companies who do not invest in creating) recorded music have derived the majority of the value created in that ecosystem,” Isn’t that what record companies have been doing for years? Making money off of artists who had no other (until recently) way to get their music out to the masses?

“…even though their games are entirely dependent on the content WE OWN AND CONTROL” He’s speaking for Warner AND their artists, right? lol

And what about Kid Rock? He basically made a song by basing it off of 2 established songs everyone knows, so no wonder its a hit. I guess its OK to for the music industry to feed of it own success in the name of $$$

]]> By: D9 http://distorted-loop.com/2008/08/08/warner-may-pull-music-from-itunes-video-games/comment-page-1/#comment-166 D9 Fri, 08 Aug 2008 16:25:41 +0000 http://distorted-loop.com/?p=769#comment-166 Don't kid (no pun intended) yourself....this album and song is being pirated en masse on the peer groups. 1.3 million shows the love for Kid Rock, but another 2-3 million is being lost through the pirates. Warner will soon discover the fallacy of this theory when much lesser artists and their ware fail miserably to sell without the likes of iTunes, Amazon, Rhapsody, MTV, Wii, etc. Don’t kid (no pun intended) yourself….this album and song is being pirated en masse on the peer groups. 1.3 million shows the love for Kid Rock, but another 2-3 million is being lost through the pirates. Warner will soon discover the fallacy of this theory when much lesser artists and their ware fail miserably to sell without the likes of iTunes, Amazon, Rhapsody, MTV, Wii, etc.

]]> By: Scott Schuckert http://distorted-loop.com/2008/08/08/warner-may-pull-music-from-itunes-video-games/comment-page-1/#comment-165 Scott Schuckert Fri, 08 Aug 2008 15:54:13 +0000 http://distorted-loop.com/?p=769#comment-165 "We want more than you're willing to pay, so we won't sell to you." Warner's prerogative. However, you can only play that game so long. Eventually no one's buying, and artists move to a label that IS selling. At the end, Warner is trying to sell one copy of one track, to some poor schmoe, for a half a billion dollars. Hopefully it's a really good song. “We want more than you’re willing to pay, so we won’t sell to you.” Warner’s prerogative. However, you can only play that game so long. Eventually no one’s buying, and artists move to a label that IS selling. At the end, Warner is trying to sell one copy of one track, to some poor schmoe, for a half a billion dollars. Hopefully it’s a really good song.

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