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An online, pay distribution method is a possible addition to album sales, but most of you are missing a very important aspect of the industry, which is promotion. Sure, I could find a Nelly tune on a website, but how do I know to look for it? The only reason I would is because there has been...

In a free market society, the cost of any given item is governed by what people are willing to pay for it. Expecting any industry to adjust their pricing to compete with bootlegs, or otherwise illegally distributed wares is rediculous. If you feel CDs are overpriced, you have several...

There is a fundamental difference between you losing your job and condoning piracy. In your case, your services are no longer being utilised, therefore you aren't getting paid for them. In the case of piracy, it is the fact that the material IS being used that is why it should be paid for. I...

A big part of the download problem is that parents don't really give a crap if their kids are stealing music, presumably because there are no obvious ramifications to doing so. Perhaps if these kids were arrested for the theft they are undertaking, and the parents fined there would be a...

Ted, your costing is off base, and this addresses another issue brought up earlier about bands recording stuff themselves on cheap studio equipment. First, let's address the do-it-yourself issue. While it is theoretically possible for an artist to buy a piece of gear for a few thousand...

Travis, the big difference between the criminals you mention and the record companies is that, unlike the bootleggers, the record companies and artists have to pay to create and distribute the music they offer, they don't just steal it. I can buy a stolen car or TV for substantially less than...

While it would be nice to single out the labels as the bad guys, it also must be said that without them, a very large percentage of music would never reach the marketplace (though some of it shouldn't ;)). What the label offers an artist is twofold: first, they finance the recordings, which...

James, you are overlooking the fact that DVDs are a secondary market for films - the primary still being the theater. A film looks to recoup its costs in a matter of weeks at the boxoffice, home video is the gravy, though it does push some films into a profit that were otherwise unsuccessful...

The problem with singles on CD and retail is that they take up the same amount of space as a regular CD which a store gets more profit from. Also, they are additional inventory that has to be projected for. Also, from a replication standpoint, it costs the same to produce a disc with one song...

Tom, if you don't like the prices, don't buy it or shop somewhere else. Just because something is priced beyond what you feel is acceptable does not justify stealing it. How would peple react if better product sold for a higher price, like in every other segment of the market outside the...

Robert, the buck a disc costing is a bit misleading. Even if it cost that much to manufacture (which would only be applicable to exremely high volume titles), like every other retail product there are markups through the distribution chain. The record company sells to a distributor, the...

I think the members of this forum and their motivation for buying DVDs is far from the average opinion of the general populace. DVD is a hot commodity, currently in the peak of its popularity (even though many of those here have owned the format since its inception). It has a "cool" factor CD...

While I completely agree that much of what is for sale out there is not worth buying, I can't agree with some of the comparisons to DVD offering better value for the money. 95% of the DVDs out there are of crap films that are not worth owning in the first place. Yes, they have a bunch of extra...