Does kazaa and others kill the music industry?

[Junk2006]

Don't famous musicians make alot of their money from concerts and shows
I am not saying that's where most of their income comes from but a good percentage comes from there

And I am positive that the money they make from concerts is enough to sustain there spending habits

[adamrotor]

well speaking form the now illegal point of dling music, i dont really think the music industry has suffered that bad. True it is work that they do but the type of job that really isnt a job in my opinion because it is an entertainment that is provided by them to make people feel good. I bet once ages ago it was free and some onejsut came up with th e idea to charge for it. The people that make the money that they make are in the millions so if the loose couple of thousand dollars i dont think it should hurt them and if it does they just plain ol greedy. But other than that it is a good buisness to get into cuz in a way its easy money if you good, and the largest industries that make the most are rap hiphop and brittney spears . Anyway on the legal side if you use other dling programs that charge you like napster, they end up chargin your rear end more than a cd is worth in the store asi rescently read in the newspaper. But as everybody kows their stil is other programs that allpow you to rip music free best thats its not mentioned on public forums cuz u kno people want free stuff, depending on their need of it. As one of you mentioned you only buy like 2-4 cd's a year or not even get a chance to listen to music. So if u end up buying them at liek 19 bux a piece thats only like 38-76 bux into the labels pocket that goes.

_marcin

[Tuscan]

I think that the issue here is not whether or not musicians get payed enough or not. Because let's face it, after a band makes it off the local level they are making a better living than most of us ever will. The main issue here is that there are copyright laws protecting that music, and even if they don't protect the music very well it is still illegal to download that music. And hopefully most of us know that laws (except for speed limits ) do matter and we should respect them.

[troskap]

I think it's not the music industry itself that's getting really battered by P2P. The music industry usually gets their money up front from retailers buying the albums to sell. It's the retailers that take the pooch, much of the time. The stores have to buy albums to stock, and when people start to download, the retailers don't get the sales to make up for the money they spent to pick up the CDs.

It hasn't hurt the bigger retailers, at least in the US. Amazon.com, and some of the electronic stores can (a) buy enough in bulk to get themselves a discount, or (b) can price the albums low enough and accept the marginal loss to cover costs, and lean on the profits made on other goods sold in the storefronts. It's all of the decent, mom-and-pop stores taking the hit, as well as some of the smaller chain stores, like Tower Records. This new splurge in MP3-for-sale sites aren't going to help. Alas, what can you really do?

Personally, I do download. However, I usually end up running out and buying the album, anyway, if I find myself liking it enough. I just hate the idea of tossing money out for a CD that I'm going to listen for 15% of the goods from, and skip the rest.

Personally i know i buy more music since i've been using kazaa than before only i don't buy the crappy music i i have a chance to sample it first. However i suspect if any of my cd players were modern enough to play mp3 files then i would buy far less music!