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Originally Posted by Chris T
In what way could it be counterproductive?
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If they skin me for £2.5k that's a lot less in my coffers to spend on Play.... and antagonising your best customers is never advisable.
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Originally Posted by ian@huth
You have to remember that not everyone has internet access, in fact most people don't. Music still has to be made available for the ones that don't. The internet is but one method of distributing music but that method should still bear its share of the costs.
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True but the majority of homes do. Nearly 60% of UK households now have internet access (Sept 04 figs - virtually double 2002 figs). The industry has been widely condemned for failing to keep technological pace - if it had launched low cost downloads early it could have at least stifled illegal download sites. It is also a terribly inefficient and conservative industry, still largely signing 'me too' acts and having a mud-at-wall approach to A&R (which probably hurts more artists as they get unceremoniously dropped).