[Free-sklyarov-uk] "Attack of the Cyber Pirates" - first impr essions

[Jason Kitcat]

Simon Wood <Simon.Wood at pace.co.uk> said on 18/7/02:
>1). The 10% fall in record sales.... everyone seems to forget that 
>we're in a recession and just blame 'pirates'. They also fail to point
>out that the record industry is partly to blame as they just push crap
>music. Even the teeny-boppers are becoming wise, newsround (kiddy-news)
>had an article how BMG pulled sales of current #1 so that it wouldn't
>interfere with the new Gareth Gates release.

Are we sure the figure is a high as 10%? I was hearing figures between 4 - 7%....

Either way it was also interesting to hear the program note that no CDs had sold more than 1 million copies (I think it was a million)
this year while several had done so last year. If we exclude recessionary factors what about diversification? People have broader
tastes and are less likely to all pile into buying the same CD. Are other CDs doing better than they traditionally would have done?
Just because no CDs sold above an arbitrary number doesn't mean people are buying less music or that copying has any impact.

Overall the program was quite balanced for a mainstream Money Program piece (don't forget that they ARE the establishment -
they sell CDs and DVDs) but I was surprised that they never seemed to challenge any of the figures being chucked around.

Also this new Palladium initiative amongst others which relies on hardware authentication. Aren't we going back to the ID number
Intel tried to put into chips but got shouted down over?

regards,
Jason

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