| Grex > Music > #54: The Thirty-Second "Napsterization" Item |  |
| response 27 of 30: | 
Jun 18 19:46 UTC 2008 |
Re resp:25: I'm sure they'll find a way to blame this on illegal downloading. I'm always kind of distrustful of entertainment industry loss figures. My understanding is it's common to use creative accounting to come up with loss figures so that they can get out of paying royalties. It's been said that if you believe movie industry accountants, no movie has ever turned an overall profit. ;)
| response 28 of 30: |
Sep 17 05:08 UTC 2008 |
An actual response about Napster!! :) Best Buy has acquired Napster. The bloggy speculation is that Best Buy is doing this to acquire an online delivery system which might be able to compete with walmart.com. I can't vouch for this myself, but the blogwriters argued that Best Buy's existing online music system was not very good. On the other hand, we recall a previous Best Buy acquisition: they bought the national CD retail chain Musicland in 1999, just before the market started to collapse, and eventually Best Buy gave Musicland away for zero cash, a year or so before Musicland's final shutdown in bankruptcy.
| response 29 of 30: |
May 13 13:34 UTC 2009 |
To the music conference: Looks like about a year since I had one of these items. In the past there were some readers in the music conference who objected to having this linked from Agora, but I suspect those folks are all gone now anyway. Any thoughts?
| response 30 of 30: |
May 13 13:47 UTC 2009 |
Link away.