tyfach submitted an article on the BBC News website. According to the article, the music industry is alienating its own customers with their anti-piracy measurements, something we have said many times before:
"The record industry has become the National Rifle Association of showbusiness. It has declared jihad on its customers who it calls pirates," he (Wayne Rosso, head of file-sharing firm Grokster) said. |
"Last year, around about the stage that file-sharing was ramping up, there was a huge window of opportunity for the record industry to do something before it became too ingrained but that moment has disappeared," said Mark Mulligan, senior analyst at Jupiter Research.
Jupiter Research's latest study reveals that legitimate internet music services are struggling to get off the ground despite the fact that nearly 40% of Europe's digital music fans are willing to pay for music online.
With the music industry refusing to offer up any but a small percentage of its artists for digital download, millions of music lovers are using services such as Kazaa to swap tracks and build up online libraries of free, if illegal, music.
The article adds that record labels really need to change their attitude towards file-sharing programs. The major labels are far too restrictive and are frustrating both legitimate online music companies as well as the music fans.
Source: BBC News
