In response to our posting of explaining why artists receive the lowest portion of the money from song sales, and why the parody could be misleading.
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They're giving the both sides of the story... no big deal...
Has anyone else seen the advertisement for the MTV Music Video Awards, with Chris Rock doing an iTMS parady? Pretty funny stuff actually. Goes to show how iPod/iTMS has become part of pop-culture. Chris Rock singing "Rock Your Body" is actually a pretty funny compliment.
i wrote the article linked here. its has nothing to do with apple or critcism of apple. it's about the economics of the music business and how misguided activism is not always the best direction to take even if the intentions are good. everyone listens to music and loves music, no doubt, but this does not make everyone qualified to remedy the sorry state of the industry as a whole. especially at a supposed "news" site!
These Downhill Battle guys are nuts and have absolutely no business sense.
For example, they say that the iTunes Music Store should reduce the prices (sell tracks for 50¢ and albums for $3) and that Apple should only keep 3% of the revenue. Did they even try to do the math? That would mean that Apple would get 1.5¢ per individual track and less than 1¢ per track on albums. So for every 1 million tracks sold, Apple would take in less than $10,000. There is no way that could even come close to paying for the servers, bandwidth, employees, lawyers, and marketing required to run the iTunes Music Store.
albums $3.00, tracks 50 cents...
The dot com boom and bust, showed us just how many people have no idea what a good or even sound business model is.
Gross profit is easy make, net profit is hard. If you don't make a net profit, you don't make it. Many times people don't realize it takes money produce goods and services. Now, someone is going to argue, but the songs on iTMS only need to be encoded once. True, but while waiting to be sold, they have to sit on a server which is consumes money in terms of electrical power. When the song is sold, it consumes bandwidth, which again costs money. And so on.
Some people think that the world owes them a free lunch and free music.
Apple couldn't increase the share that artists get even if they wanted to! The artist has a contract with the label, not Apple. The last thing the label wants is Apple infringing upon their deal with their artists. If this guy had half a brain (which he doesn't), he'd leave Apple (and any other online music distribution company) out of the argument. As it is, he's just railing on trying to justify his continued stealing of music.
His argument against iTMS is akin to complaining that he isn't going to buy a new G5, because out of all the profits Apple makes, they only pay Jonathan Ive less than half a million dollars a year. Jeeessh. Get real. Grow up. Learn what it takes to run a business...
I just don't get it. Does someone hold a gun to their head and force them to sign contracts with record companies? If they have a better way to promote themselves, go for it!
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Let me get this straight.
So when people parody one of Apple's competitors, it's funny and good and yay! But when someone parodies Apple's site, it's a Bad Thing and could be misleading?
Grow up. The first amendment doesn't cease to apply when the speech is critical of Apple.