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Originally Posted by docdtv
Supposedly, Alizée "Toc de Macintosh" Jacotey herself said
Mp3 players are not at the source of piracy, it's the price of progress and the Internet... we can't do anything about it, we made a lot of laws, it was a battle lost before it begun, unless we go back to vinyl records. I think we should prepare for the death of the CD...
We hear you, princess, and are struggling to brainstorm plan B! |
It seems that the <a href="http://alizeeamerica.com/forums/showthread.php?p=150660"><i>Opendisc</i></a> initiative is an attempt to address the "file-sharing" crisis killing CD sales which uses a methodology in the spirit of the very suggestion made at the start of this thread. (I will abstain from offering a technical analysis, in the hopes of helping this method succeed as long as possible.)
But another revenue stream exists for <i>celebrated</i> artists as well. Long before <i>YouTube</i> and other free video hosting sites threatened the legitimate marketing of movies, a wiseman named <i>Yogurt</i> explained the way forward:
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