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krj
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The Eighth Napster Item
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Jan 5 22:04 UTC 2002 |
Continuing the weblog, with occasional discussion, about news relating to
the deconstruction of the music business: with side forays, to
steal polygon's description, into "intellectual property, freedom
of expression, electronic media, corporate control, and
evolving technology."
This item is linked between the Winter Agora conference and the
Music conference. The previous version of this item (item:music3,37)
includes a list of all earlier items in this series.
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krj
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response 1 of 219:
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Jan 5 22:10 UTC 2002 |
Soundscan issues a report on 2001 CD sales:
http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/nm/20020103/re/leisure_albums_dc_1.html
"Album Sales Not Sweet Music in 2001"
(Soundscan is the company which runs the point-of-sale counting
system used by Billboard magazine for the "official" US sales charts.)
Quotes:
> A lack of blockbuster hits, the weak economy, and the
> distraction of underground music Web sites like
> Napster (news - web sites) and other media combined to
> push U.S. album sales to 762.6 million in
> 2001 from 784.8 million in 2000, according to Soundscan, .
> It was the first decline since the company began monitoring
> album sales in 1991 and was almost
> entirely reflected in the drop in sales at the
> multi-platinum top of the charts.
> The top-10 selling albums sold 20 million less units in
> 2001 than the top 10 albums in 2000, a
> Soundscan spokeswoman said.
> The year's best selling album was Warner Bros.'
> ``Hybrid Theory'' by Los Angeles-based rock group
> Linkin Park, which sold just 4.8 million units.
> By contrast, seven albums sold more than 5 million copies each
> in 2000, with Eminem (news - web
> sites)'s smash release ``The Marshall Mathers LP''
> selling more than 9 million.
To repeat that key point: the top-selling CD in 2001 sold roughly half
as many copies as the top-selling CD in 2000.
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krj
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response 2 of 219:
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Jan 5 22:19 UTC 2002 |
Slashdot has coverage of the US imposing trade sanctions on the Ukraine
over bootleg CDs. As best as I can sort it out, the US is demanding
that Ukraine implement a serial number licensing system for all
CD blanks and all CD-manufacturing machines so that the sale of
every CD from that country can be traced.
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/01/03/1621205&mode=thread
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mcnally
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response 3 of 219:
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Jan 6 00:30 UTC 2002 |
We're demanding that they do something there that we don't do here?
Or *do* we do that here?
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ric
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response 4 of 219:
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Jan 6 03:34 UTC 2002 |
I don't think it's necessary to do it here if CD piracy isn't a problem here.
And, to my knowledge, it's not. NOTE that I'm saying "CD Piracy" and not
"music piracy". We're talking about making illegal copies of compact discs
and selling them. That's not a real problem in the US.
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krj
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response 5 of 219:
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Jan 6 05:19 UTC 2002 |
Genuine Napster News! :)
http://www.mp3newswire.net/stories/2002/napsterlives.html
mp3newswire.net discusses Napster's preview of the new for-pay,
copy-controlled service.
Napster hopes to relaunch in "early 2002."
There are two other mp3newswire.net stories worth a mention: their
"winners/losers for 2001" stories discusses how the major labels
wiped out most potential business competition in 2001, either through
legal action or by buying them out, both in file-downloading and in
internet radio. However, the labels' offerings seem to have no
appeal to consumers; mp3newswire.net projects that anything successful
in the digital music field will have to be based
somewhere outside of the reach of the US legal system.
mp3newswire.net also reports that the file trading company KaZaa
is ignoring the Dutch court's order to shut down; that was as of
late December and I have not seen any updates.
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senna
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response 6 of 219:
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Jan 6 08:40 UTC 2002 |
UBL should skip all this messy plane and anthrax business and just set up his
own pirate music-trading site.
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scott
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response 7 of 219:
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Jan 6 13:50 UTC 2002 |
Re 3: I think we *do* do that here. Or rather they *do* do it in the places
where they make the CD blanks and recorders that we use here.
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ric
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response 8 of 219:
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Jan 7 03:19 UTC 2002 |
Media and equipment do not make piracy.
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bdh3
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response 9 of 219:
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Jan 7 08:10 UTC 2002 |
What is the best site to download bootleg videos in VCD format?
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other
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response 10 of 219:
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Jan 7 16:36 UTC 2002 |
re #8:
Sony Corp. of Am. v. Universal City Studios, Inc., 464 U.S. 417 (1984)
USSC.
Everyone in the content industry, including Sony, is now trying to forget
this decision. Hmm, I wonder why.
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gull
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response 11 of 219:
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Jan 7 17:17 UTC 2002 |
Re #7: That's very likely true of stand-alone audio CD burners and the
corresponding "audio blanks". These are the only legal way to copy a
copyrighted audio CD for home use under the amended Digital Home
Recording Act. A copyrighted audio CD copied to a "data blank" is
automatically an act of piracy regardless of what you do with it.
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