Former EMI boss says Limewire users were major iTunes customers

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It's no EXCUSE for pirating, but it makes the success of Netflix and Hulu that have minimal subscriptions seem to be EXACTLY what the pubic demands. Therefore it makes all the gouging, backstabbing, price fixing of Netflix & RedBox that's gone on in the last 9 months doubly as bad because the publishers KNOW they're CREATING more pirates, by taking away what people are willing to pay for. The "invisible hand" found a legal and profitable way to distribute the media and the moguls take away.

I think this is why the Apple deal looks to be really interesting. I always figured the "genius" and "ping" features from the iTunes store were for just that. I'd venture Apple has an even BIGGER database that says exactly the same thing.... people pirate the vast collections of stuff 20 years old (not that they couldn't just borrow CDs anyway) but then actively hunt out new stuff to BUY in droves. Signing up for $25 bucks (per year) is some pretty big money in Apple sized numbers.

I do think there will be "another shoe" in that the new "locker" feature i'm guessing will only include "ripped" songs because itunes still tags your userID and system info. That way if you can get a hand on a CD it will work, but not anything downloaded from Limewire ect...

Of course my big complaint about that is that I buy tons of music from an emusic subscription. Apple treats generic MP3 formats from Amazon and emusic downright rudely. iPhone syncs don't always grab it. they don't have good tools to manage it, etc. I'm upset because labels basically ruined emusic... taking away re-downloading, upping the costs.. and driving away the indie labels that built the place.

Why is it that the one guy I think I've seen who seems to get it from the RIAA get's fired a year after he starts. Just lump in the RIAA and MPAA with the idiots running newspapers and be done with it. They don't see the forest for the trees and if they don't catch up soon (the Apple deal with iCloud and Spotify seems to signify they finally are) they will be left with nothing when the artists figure out they can publish their music themselves and put them on spotify and itunes without the hindrances of the RIAA.

That describes me, pretty much. I used to use Limewire to get (steal) a lot of music, either because it was rare, or unavailable in my market. But I deleted Limewire years ago, and it’s because Steve Jobs was right: make music accessible, high-quality, and price it fairly, and I’ll buy. I’ve gone back and bought most of the old tracks that I originally downloaded for free. I have no problem buying if something is available. Same goes for Netflix, Amazon, or any media/vendor.

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jesus.

According Telepolis in Germany, that conducted a survey on poeple dowloading movies, they got results so bad for the major that ordered the survey that they have been asked not to publish it. It surfaced some days ago on blogs in Europe. The survey says that the other downloading movies are the ones that buy the more DVD and they ones going the most to cinema. Source here: http://www.heise.de/tp/blogs/6/150152.

Not surprising. I've been saying this for years. If content is good, people will pay for it, regardless of where they get it from or if it's available for free. Put out a record that's got one killer track and the rest is junk, you're not going to make any money, simple as that.