More Are Paying To Stream Music, But YouTube Still Holds the Value Gap (theregister.co.uk) 43
An anonymous reader shares a report: With Google's user-generated content loophole firmly in lawmaker's sights, global music trade body IFPI has published new research looking at demand for music streaming. The research confirms YouTube's pre-eminence as the world's de facto jukebox. 46 percent of on-demand music streaming is from Google's video website. 75 percent of internet users use video streaming to hear music. The paid-for picture is bullish: 50 percent of internet users have paid for licensed music in the last six months, in one form or another, of which 53 per are 13- to 15-year-olds. Audio streaming is split between 39 percent who stream for free and 29 percent who pay. [...] So what's the problem? European policy makers have become convinced by the "value gap" argument: compensation doesn't reflect usage. Google finds itself with a unique advantage here, thanks to YouTube's "user-generated content" exception, as we explained last year.
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sadly, no.
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I believe the revenue model the MPAA/RIAA is going for is "just give us all the money and your child lives".
Re: Value gap is propaganda (Score:2)
What's your primary email address and password?
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The only value gap is the price people are paying for streaming, and the actual value of digital files. Which is zero.
Umm, speaking in terms of market economics, the monetary value of something is exactly what someone else is willing to pay for it. No more and no less.
Re: paid for v streamed (Score:3)
Until you do...
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I'm sorry to inform you that moral and ethics have to be decided by a judge.
Morality and legality are entirely different things.
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Yes, I've done that.
Me too. On average, I think I spend about $50/mo purchasing music. I won't pay for media I can't have a usable a copy of, though. "Usable copy" means no DRM and in a common audio format.
Dear music industry (Score:2)
You can either get the ad revenue from YouTube or nothing from when people go back to filesharing. Because 50% is already about 49% more than I'd have expected to pay for something as useless as the audio pollution you sell as music.
Slaughtering the goose laying the golden eggs may well result in having nothing at all.
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It's commonly said that people aren't willing to pay for things (especially music) anymore, but that is demonstrably untrue.
Percentages (Score:2)
50 percent of internet users have [...] of which 53 percent are 13- to 15-year-olds.
26.5% of internet users are between 13 and 15 years old? That explains everything!
Entertainment industry is destroying freedom (Score:2, Informative)
What we have gotten from fear like this is censorship and the great firewall of the west. We don't need copy"right" and I'd argue the value of music, movies, and entertainment has long been over valued. You can't tell me that a song or bunch of songs is worth millions of dollars. Songs are literally worth little more than a dime a dozen. There is a reason that the industry "needs" copy"right". It really doesn't, but it thinks it does. What it needs are sound business models (which it has with or without cop
Re: Entertainment industry is destroying freedom (Score:3)
You've never made music, have you? I used to earn extra money as a performance artist and, sometimes, studio musician. I play at a very high level (samples available) and can't even begin to enumerate the number of total hours it takes just to master a single song - and I can play at just about the same speed I can read tab. I play classical guitar, but usually earned money by making faithful reproductions (cover tunes). As in, note perfect reproductions of a studio cut and played better than some of the or
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You've never made music, have you? I used to earn extra money as a performance artist and, sometimes, studio musician. I play at a very high level (samples available) and can't even begin to enumerate the number of total hours it takes just to master a single song - and I can play at just about the same speed I can read tab. I play classical guitar, but usually earned money by making faithful reproductions (cover tunes). As in, note perfect reproductions of a studio cut and played better than some of the original artists could do while playing live.
My pedal station totals a half sheet of plywood. My choice of guitars numbers well over 100. I practice with a metronome just to ensure my timing is exact. I no longer play professionally, but I still try to get two hours of practice in, every single day. I've played for more than 45 years.
If you think it is four hours of work, you've never made music. If you need proof of my skill level, and thus my ability to speak authoritatively, I'm more than happy to provide that proof, in this public space. It takes more than four hours, just to master a fairly simple song. Yeah, there is shitty music but evennshitty music, and shitty artists, take quite a bit of time to create the music you like.
However, as I have no financial worries, I don't actually sell my work and don't try to make money with it. So, I don't have any personal qualms about putting my work into the public domain.
Long time (45+ years) professional musician (guitarist, session/live-performance) here as well.
The original purpose of copyright was to make certain that new music steadily entered the public domain instead of either never being created or never made public at all. To that end, they incentivized the creation and publication of music by trying to guarantee creators a reasonable time within which they could exercise exclusivity and profit. "We'll allow you a small window within which to profit, and in exchang
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Absolutely, I agree with everything you said. My contention was mostly that it took a mere four hours to create music.
Here, I'll show off. ;-) As stated, I'm a trained classical guitarist. However, nobody pays for a classical guitarist. So, I learned to play rock. Which is how you end up with something like this:
https://vocaroo.com/i/s0j5qxFp... [vocaroo.com]
Yeah... That's pure unadulterated ego. I'm pretty sure it's note-perfect. I am a bit fond of Malmsteen. That's played on a Malmsteen edition with the scalloped frets
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"at most 4 hours to create"
Here's a couple of my videos -- both around 80 minutes -- that took about 50 hours each to make:
COASALT 6: 222 Answers [youtu.be]
Toxic: How Science Measures Harm [youtu.be]
Boggles my mind why anyone would pull an arbitrary fixed number out of their hat...
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Yes, I'm entirely fine with the concept and original purpose of copyright.
Copyright law as it exists currently, though, is an abomination.
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> ... socialism which doesn't work on a massive scale because we have too many poor people trying to get in ...
The actual problem with Socialism is that eventually you run out of other people's money.
i.e.
You can only rob Peter to pay Paul for so long.
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"To robbe Petyr & geve it Poule, it were non almesse but gret synne." -- Jacob's well: an English treatise on the cleansing of man's conscience, 1450
'53 per'...? (Score:2)
53 per? I feel like there may be a certain symbol that could shorten that grouping of symbols even more, but I can't seem to remember which. it is.
A terribly biased article (Score:2)
128 GB phone - I'm not a slave to bandwidth. (Score:2)
Buy disks, rip, compress, keep it with you. (disks are super cheap on the used market these days)
Streaming = Provide me bandwidth random store or eatery so that I may stream music into my head for your roof is metal and my phone signal does not penetrate well.
Storing your own music = Hackers took down the ENTIRE INTERNET and cellular network? LOL I've got this.
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Buy disks, rip, compress, keep it with you. (disks are super cheap on the used market these days)
Which used markets are those? Certainly not e-bay or Amazon.
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I used to hit used media stores like Hastings and FYE those stores seem to be going out of business. Half Price Books is still around and has a good selection. I've bought music at garage sales and thrift shops.
There's at least 7 good ones here, I couldn't read all the titles due to the glare - Buy it Now price $15, free shipping, take the ones you don't like to Half Price Books or give them away otherwise. http://r.ebay.com/rUsgkB [ebay.com]
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THIS.
Used CDs are dirt cheap (not just used music stores, but Garage sales, etc). Plus you have the CDs as back up, you rip the tracks snas any DRM.
You get to choose the play order, the songs in the list, no censorship, etc...AND no monthly fees. Plus you don't need cell signal or WiFi and don;t have to worry about connection speed from overuse of the bandwidth...