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Record Industry was massively greedy/stupid on moving to CDs

Dumbasses should’ve put copy protection on the disks from th...
Hyperactive hall
  07/20/18
Nah, they fucked up when they fought napster/p2p instead of ...
Kink-friendly very tactful mood
  07/20/18
This is true. Spotify is light years beyond napster that fuc...
Hyperactive hall
  07/20/18
there was so much technological advance that had to occur be...
Umber Appetizing Foreskin Institution
  07/20/18
...
Adventurous iridescent temple depressive
  07/20/18
haha holy shit wow
Umber Appetizing Foreskin Institution
  07/20/18
You’re old
Hyperactive hall
  07/20/18
Maybe with streaming but there were great alternatives, even...
Kink-friendly very tactful mood
  07/20/18
it was so obvious then why didn't you invent iTunes in 1998?
Umber Appetizing Foreskin Institution
  07/20/18
Oh come on. The record companies had a few billion in cash. ...
Kink-friendly very tactful mood
  07/20/18
which companies? this is total hindsight bias bullshit. ...
Umber Appetizing Foreskin Institution
  07/20/18
The argument is they should’ve invented their own iTunes. i...
Beady-eyed gaming laptop parlour
  07/20/18
Cr
Hyperactive hall
  07/20/18


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Date: July 20th, 2018 10:20 AM
Author: Hyperactive hall

Dumbasses should’ve put copy protection on the disks from the get go

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Date: July 20th, 2018 10:25 AM
Author: Kink-friendly very tactful mood

Nah, they fucked up when they fought napster/p2p instead of developing their own streaming/download services. Their argument then was that it wouldn't matter if they had such services ("people will prefer to steal it anyway"). With youtube, streaming services, itunes etc. we now know that there are ways to profit even from "free" streaming and that customers will pay for music if it's delivered in an easy convenient manner.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4030921&forum_id=2#36464837)



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Date: July 20th, 2018 10:29 AM
Author: Hyperactive hall

This is true. Spotify is light years beyond napster that fucked up your computer

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4030921&forum_id=2#36464848)



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Date: July 20th, 2018 10:31 AM
Author: Umber Appetizing Foreskin Institution

there was so much technological advance that had to occur before the streaming services we have today became a viable option. It's hard to say that these music execs should have seen this coming 20 years ago

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4030921&forum_id=2#36464853)



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Date: July 20th, 2018 10:32 AM
Author: Adventurous iridescent temple depressive



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Date: July 20th, 2018 10:34 AM
Author: Umber Appetizing Foreskin Institution

haha holy shit wow

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Date: July 20th, 2018 10:34 AM
Author: Hyperactive hall

You’re old

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Date: July 20th, 2018 10:39 AM
Author: Kink-friendly very tactful mood

Maybe with streaming but there were great alternatives, even then. I remember before they started cracking down on illegal downloads there were websites where you could download a dudes favorite songs. It would be like a cheesy geocities page with the guys collection of songs. The record companies got those shut down and then napster and the p2p's filled the gap. On college campuses you had internal ftp networks where people shared entire playlists. This is all in the early to late 90's.

The record companies' reaction seemed so ridiculous to me, even back then. They could see that these new delivery systems were extremely popular among young kids and they had almost a decade's notice and they couldn't come up with anything?

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4030921&forum_id=2#36464897)



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Date: July 20th, 2018 10:43 AM
Author: Umber Appetizing Foreskin Institution

it was so obvious then why didn't you invent iTunes in 1998?

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4030921&forum_id=2#36464922)



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Date: July 20th, 2018 10:45 AM
Author: Kink-friendly very tactful mood

Oh come on. The record companies had a few billion in cash. They couldn't make a few good acquisitions?

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4030921&forum_id=2#36464931)



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Date: July 20th, 2018 10:46 AM
Author: Umber Appetizing Foreskin Institution

which companies? this is total hindsight bias bullshit.

Steve Jerbs understood that the internet was the future of music, but I'm not even sure if he predicted streaming

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4030921&forum_id=2#36464939)



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Date: July 20th, 2018 10:59 AM
Author: Beady-eyed gaming laptop parlour

The argument is they should’ve invented their own iTunes. iTunes is and always has been a lazy piece of shit interface with all sort of problems. The actual business that needed the music itself to be profitable would have been much better situated to work to improve the product. It’s understandable that Apple never cared to do it, since they already had an absurdly generous split of the revenues—Apple got a third of every mp3 sale. This is the same music industry that for decades paid 7 cents per dollar to artists who actually write, perform and market the actual music and literally are the product.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4030921&forum_id=2#36464998)



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Date: July 20th, 2018 10:47 AM
Author: Hyperactive hall

Cr

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4030921&forum_id=2#36464948)