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Comment by Bret Spector on June 10, 2009 at 6:58pm

I will admit that I do use music illegally. I do. But I like that music that I am hearing, then I will buy the song off of iTunes and delete the pirated versino of the song. Because I like the song then I want to hear more of that good music, right? And by buying the song off of iTunes, then I am helping the artist, right? That's the way that I do things. I think that the streaming thing would be a good idea, I'm just a little bit confused about it all though...

Comment by ahdkaw on June 10, 2009 at 11:10am

There are many inaccuracies in your posting, I suggest that you do a little more research into these things first.

I don't really want to have to go through all the arguments, but I will question one point you made.

Do you really believe that because recorded music is now available free of charge to everyone in the world, there will be no more music? Poppy-cock. This equates to saying that before the invention of the phonautograph, there was no music! Oh but hang on, wasn't there sheet music, and live performance? So no, it will not be the death of music, it will be the saviour of music.

I also agree with Michael.

Comment by Keith Stoneberger on June 10, 2009 at 10:51am

I agree to a point about the streaming idea and I agree that cd's are losing their appeal. It is so much easier to put your music on a player about the same size of a thumb drive than to carry around a cd player and a 15" x 15" size notebook filled with your favorite cds. The only really legal way now to get the mp3 music or whatever file style of music you use is to either buy it online or buy the cd then convert the music file on the computer. I wrote an article on my website about what I think about the P2P and the sharing of the music on it. The one thing that cds, mp3s can never replace, and if you are old enough to remember, is the sound of music coming from needle off a vinyl record.

Comment by Michael on June 10, 2009 at 5:45am

Sorry i think most people could still make a good amount of money doing what everyone else has done WORKING....I mean by this greatful dead did not really make that many cds sale in comparison to say METALLICA (please do not flame me). The worked thier butts of on tours and got paid to do their shows......incentive to work you get paid! I am nto saying writing,recording,mising,producing and selling music is nto work.....I am saying we no longer use modems why? because there is a better way! I think the music industry could get rid of the middle man...MANY artist produce their own music now. I was shocked to see this happen back in the 90s when a friend of mine in New Mexico wrote and produced all his music with a MAC. BIG LABELS BYE BYE. Sell your stuff online save the middle man....Streaming will never be "free" you will have to pay somewhere I see it now with some online services offering free trials to napster and Itunes with purchases of 1 year temr contracts.....you pay somewhere......PSP is used way to much I believe if you like the artist find them online and purchase their stuff that way they will get there incentives to keep making good music....sorry but there will never be a day someone will not be creative and write and play music....you will see more starving artists if somehow it goes "free" but neccessity is the motherhood on invention or adaptation...

Comment by Zagorath on June 10, 2009 at 2:52am

To be honest, I don't really care if your worst-case scenario does come to pass, and no more music is produced, because the vast majority of the music I listen to is what most people call classical music, but is really made up of the baroque, classical and (my favourite) romantic eras.
The rest of the music I listen to is movie music, and that will continue to be made, as the movies are always going to make a lot of money, because movie piracy doesn't contain the same benefits as pirating audio, because of the richer experience of viewing a movie at an actual movie theatre. So movie music will continue to be produced.
:D

Comment by Act X on June 7, 2009 at 8:16am

From the Artist's perspective nothing really changes: They get paid by the Label, and the Label gets the CD sales. From the Label's perspective, they need to provide incentives to purchase CDs, things that you can only attain from the CD case, that you can't just put online. From the consumer's perspective, CD's are losing their appeal. No one uses CD players, and you can get the music straight to your hard drive for 99c or Free.

I'm actually working on a purchase-incentive program that would help Labels keep making money, but at the moment it's still just an idea.