Fuddy-Duddy Record-Label Mogul Hates You - Idolator Comments

Fuddy-Duddy Record-Label Mogul Hates You

AcidReign — Fri, 15 Sep 2006 17:11:39 EDT

.....Thing is, they make a shit-load of money off YouTube that they apparently don't realize. I just re-bought several ELO albums because my interest was re-kindled by some old promo video posted to the site. That was $40 of pure profit for the record company, and free advertising by Stevelo and YouTube. The CDs were probably already pressed years ago, and just sitting in a warehouse.

AcidReign

Fuddy-Duddy Record-Label Mogul Hates You

Spiny Norman — Fri, 15 Sep 2006 11:24:31 EDT

...And now the RIAA is going to get busy chasing down all those homebrew skateboarders and camcorder jockeys for "infringing". Sooner or later this whole house of cards is going to come crashing down from the excessive costs incurred in litigation. Bittorrent forever! Viva la Revolution!

Spiny Norman

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nah_brah81 — Fri, 15 Sep 2006 11:06:10 EDT

you can't stop you tube..

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cDr8k3GsYjQ

nah_brah81

Fuddy-Duddy Record-Label Mogul Hates You

djtonyz — Fri, 15 Sep 2006 10:53:05 EDT

The last time I checked, YouTube has a lot more than just music videos posted to the web site. If Doug Morris thinks that YouTube's explosive growth was due to his companies music videos, then that just shows he just doesn't get it.

I'm growing weary of record labels trying to milk every last penny out of every business for a product they aren't doing a good job of promoting themselves.

The last time I checed, CD sales are on the decline, people are buying singles again because they are tired of one hit wonder albums priced at $18 and music videos are really still just a promotional tool to get fans to connect with the music.

Just a few years ago, record labels would never ask a music video network or internet site for pay to play. Not only are these companies gouging the little guy for content (MySpace is still only worth $500M as opposed to Universal's billion's), but they aren't creating any new business models for consumers to connect with the artists behind those giant walls.

The more major record labels keep bitching and moaning, the more they turn off the consumer, who will look elsewhere to discover new artists.

I am starting to see a world of independent, artist driven labels that aren't tied to Wall Street, rising up and taking inch by inch, the real estate that majors consider themselves the caretakers of.

It's a sad state of affairs when you have super wealthy CEO's complaining that they aren't getting any love, because they're jealous that they can't sell their label for a billion, like YouTube can sell it's system for.

It's a new economoy, stupid!

djtonyz

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Clare — Fri, 15 Sep 2006 10:32:08 EDT

Cute Sinatra reference in the second graf.

Clare

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nerdlinger — Fri, 15 Sep 2006 09:49:12 EDT

>[MTV] built a multibillion-dollar
>company on our (music) ... for
>virtually nothing. We learned a
>hard lesson.

It's really funny to me to read this quote in this particular context...I'm a music editor at a pop culture web site, and in the past year UMG has enacted a very draconian policy about to whom they'll be serving music videos, requiring sites to sign a lengthy agreement filled with reporting demands and, of course, requiring payment. The EXACT same language was used when the label debuted that policy. Man, they must have been really burned by all the publicity music videos on MTV brought their artists over the years.

That said, I have to think that a YouTube backlash is inevitable, because the amount of infringement on that site borders on ridiculous.

nerdlinger

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Loseroo — Thu, 14 Sep 2006 22:53:01 EDT

"Whenever I hear a music industry executive complain about being robbed of millions of dollars, I imagine that executive being torn apart and eaten by the musicians who have been robbed of millions of dollars by the company that executive represents. Doing this makes me smile."

Yes, I playback that image in my head until I have an orgasm.

Loseroo

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pax_cincinnatus — Thu, 14 Sep 2006 22:29:27 EDT

I, for one, welcome our new mogul overlords.

pax_cincinnatus

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ozacrot — Thu, 14 Sep 2006 21:04:48 EDT

As a general rule, anything that allows musicians to do for free what they used to have to pay record labels to do will be considered a crime by those same labels.

ozacrot

Fuddy-Duddy Record-Label Mogul Hates You

ozacrot — Thu, 14 Sep 2006 21:02:16 EDT

As a general rule, anything that allows musicians to do for free what they used to have to pay record labels to do is going to be considered a crime by those labels.

ozacrot

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The old Campion — Thu, 14 Sep 2006 20:21:24 EDT

Whenever I hear a music industry executive complain about being robbed of millions of dollars, I imagine that executive being torn apart and eaten by the musicians who have been robbed of millions of dollars by the company that executive represents. Doing this makes me smile.

The old Campion

Fuddy-Duddy Record-Label Mogul Hates You

Ned Raggett — Thu, 14 Sep 2006 19:07:28 EDT

Dude's gotta protect his stock options. Why must you be so cruel?

Ned Raggett

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catdirt1 — Thu, 14 Sep 2006 18:49:45 EDT

other tags: tom freston, s**tcanned.

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