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| From | "Jaimie Vernon" <bullseyecanada@hotmail.com> |
| Subject | Re: INTERNET FILE-SHARING BIGGER THAN RECORD BUSINESS |
| Date | Fri, 28 Mar 2003 21:38:20 -0500 |
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AT Date: Fri, 28 Mar 2003 21:14:45 Josh wrote:
>Yeah. Early 80s they said the same thing about home cassette taping
>dwarfing album sales. For the record industry, the sky is ALWAYS falling,
>and it is NEVER their fault.
>
>----- Original Message -----
>From: "Road Angel" <orb@stripe.colorado.edu>
>
> > Damn.
> > ___________________________
> >
> > INTERNET FILE-SHARING BIGGER THAN RECORD BUSINESS
> > The California legislature was warned yesterday that free peer-to-peer
> > music
> > file sharing has become so common that its volume actually dwarfed the
> > multi-billion dollar recording industry. Eric Garland, a Web trends
> > analyst,
> > told the Senate Select Committee on the
> > Entertainment Industry that fighting the popular activity would be "a
> > losing
> > battle" and that the industry should instead embrace downloadable music
>as
> > a
> > part of their distribution model. Industry execs see it differently,
> > however, and plan to push for legal challenges to P2P sharing while
> > launching education campaigns about the illegality of such activity.
> > [SOURCE: The Washington Post, AUTHOR: Jim Wasserman]
> > (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A40744-2003Mar28.html)
Interesting article.
I just visited a CD manufacturing plant yesterday who were trying to
solicite our business for speedier delivery (4 DAYS!!!) and better prices.
What really sold me on this company was that they have spent the last 7
years developing a software system that allows the finished manufactured
goods to be warehoused, fulfilled, confirmed through Verisign for purchase
and shipped to customers and wholesalers globally with an online shopping
cart system that is software based...
And they offer secure pin-accessed file downloads as part of the shopping
cart system -- your customers can chose to buy the CDs from the pressing
plant or the audio files via their portal...or incentive buys that have CDs
sent out with access codes that allow purchasers to get after-sales
downloads. That's pretty forward thinking considering 90% of their business
is currently based on the manufacturing end.
These people realized awhile ago that the physical format for transmitting
music is quickly becoming extinct and have embraced the alternative while
still offering the traditional "home" version of the CD format.
They'll even retro fit warehousing of your existing inventory (no obligation
to manufacture through them).
This is a one-stop shop situation...I encourage any of the labels out there
to contact me for more info, these guys will set up label systems for any
size operation.
Jaimie Vernon,
President,
http://www.bullseyecanada.com
#1 West Hill Dr., Toronto, ON
M1E 3T4 Canada (416) 284-7067
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