retired_jshendel

Bit different tho. People would rather pay to see the film on a massive screen rather than just their (in comparison) small tv

retired_rondaw25

Another thing that nobody really brings up, is the phasing ot of CD players in general.

The reason I don't buy CD's is because I rarely use a CD player. I only use MP3's, both during the day (on my phone) or during the night, on itunes.

retired_rachelst

Yeah that's a good point. Who even has a discman anymore?

retired_musiclova31

i-tunes sales increased around 25% last year. cd sales have fallen about 10% in that time iirc.

dunno what that means in real financial terms (as 25% of one isn't necessarily greater than 10% the other), but the point is, the competition is not just with piracy - the music industry is competing with itself in a way through the scatter gun approach to new media technology.

also interesting to note this reaction in the article:
"It's not rocket science to work out that if you get your music for free, why would you go out and buy it," Ms Heindl said... She pointed to a telephone survey of 1000 Australians aged 14 to 74, conducted by Quantum Market Research last year, which found 57 per cent of those who downloaded via P2P file sharing programs rarely or never went on to purchase the music legitimately.
which is pretty much ARIA themselves admitting that sales aren't as affected as they'd like us to believe by music piracy. a line of thought shared by several studies into software piracy as well.

retired_bec8643

I came to these conclusions in my dissertation on how technology is affecting the music industry.

The guy marking it wasn't impressed though. Trust my luck to end up with a musician marking it.

retired_bec8643

Thing with that is, a lot of what they've downloaded and don't go on to purchase legitimately they wouldn't have purchased legitimately even if they couldn't download it, a lot of the stuff that gets downloaded (or at least from what my research showed) is tracks that people download for novelty value that they wouldn't dream of going down to the shops to buy.

retired_neasp

Your suppose to buy the CD and rip it on to MP3? No?

But good point on MP3 players contributing to the downfalls of sales.

retired_musiclova31

meant to address this point too-
why. he's right? and if he's going, i'll join him: first version of cm i played was the very original back on the miggy 500. i had never even heard of the game until my mate (his name was Stuart Hall for the record ) gave me a couple of 3.5" pirated disks to have a gander at. i've bought every version of the game since - so SI have come out in front on that little transaction.

same again with the AD&D Forgotten Realms games (which were fffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffb). Stuey gave me Pool of Radiance and Curse of the Azure Bonds (which between them took up about a dozen disks iirc ) - the amount of money I've spent of rpgs since then ridiculously outweighs the lost income on those original two games.

And if SLAMPA and i are gonna be banned for 'acts of piracy' that long ago, then they'd better ban marc duffy too... theme hospital ffs.

DebSchiff

Saw someone with a diskman on the bus the other day. I thought it was 1998 again.

retired_derek

Pretty much the same with me too. I'd had a brief flirtation with it on a friends Amiga. Think it was the first version with real names. Anyway, another mate came round my house one day and brought some disks with him as was the norm back then for most people with an Amiga 500/600 and a copy of xcopy professional.

Loved it and i have bought every version ever since. Was probably one of the few games on the Amiga i did always own the original version for too.