I was attending a werk conference this morning mentioning these very things.
1) With my newly acquired technology I am in the position to capture streams on my mac straight off myspace or wherever. Anyone can do this with Audacity or freely available software. It's a bit of faff but no more than taping something off the radio. I tried buying a song off Tesco Downloads once and it wouldn't play on my old PC. *flicks the Vs at buying downloads*
2) A while back on here I attempted to remember the breakdown of yr 79p download; this morning refreshed my memory:
79p => 13p VAT + 8p to retailer + 47p to record label + 7p to artist + 1p to PRS + 3p to publisher
Our MD expects the price of a download to drop to about 29p in the next three years. emusic already offers it at around this level (say if you bought the maximum amount allocated to you for your monthly subscription) so it's not a ridiculous target. At the moment the big copyright tribunal is fighting over whether the above is reasonable or not (BPI are sueing PRS because they would like our slice to be more like 4-5p and their slice to be more like 50p).
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Coincidence.
Date: 2007-03-06 03:19 pm (UTC)1) With my newly acquired technology I am in the position to capture streams on my mac straight off myspace or wherever. Anyone can do this with Audacity or freely available software. It's a bit of faff but no more than taping something off the radio. I tried buying a song off Tesco Downloads once and it wouldn't play on my old PC. *flicks the Vs at buying downloads*
2) A while back on here I attempted to remember the breakdown of yr 79p download; this morning refreshed my memory:
79p => 13p VAT + 8p to retailer + 47p to record label + 7p to artist + 1p to PRS + 3p to publisher
Our MD expects the price of a download to drop to about 29p in the next three years. emusic already offers it at around this level (say if you bought the maximum amount allocated to you for your monthly subscription) so it's not a ridiculous target. At the moment the big copyright tribunal is fighting over whether the above is reasonable or not (BPI are sueing PRS because they would like our slice to be more like 4-5p and their slice to be more like 50p).
There you go.