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On Wed, 12 Mar 2008, Jonathan King wrote:
On Wed, Mar 12, 2008 at 10:41 PM, Mike Miller <EMAIL:PROTECTED> wrote:
Here are some stories...
MPAA Touts Record Year For Hollywood
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/03/12/0156220
And how's the RIAA doing? Not badly, I'll bet.
I think you would actually be wrong here. Last I heard, CD sales were
down again, and online sales only put a small dent in this trend. Not
that I feel sorry for the recording industry, but I find it hard to
believe they have not suffered from significant sales declines.
There are some interesting countervailing forces. For example, the
ability to make MP3 tracks from a CD that you can then share with your
friends adds a huge value to the CD. A group of 10 friends could pitch in
on CDs that they buy new, rip them, sell them to the used CD store. In
this way they are likely to buy many CDs that *none* of the 10 ever would
have bought otherwise.
What I would like to see is historical data on the average prices of new
CDs in various categories. If the prices have fallen substantially, I'll
believe that they *might* be losing some money to unapproved file sharing,
but they might also be dropping prices for other reasons such as (1)
competition from independent recording companies or (2) approved file
downloads from iTunes and others.
Intel Confirms It Will Ship 160GB Flash Drives
http://hardware.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/03/12/1647241
Jon was right, of course, and here they are!
Jon did not predict that Intel would do this, however. Jon also predicts
he won't buy a flash drive of this size until it's really cheap. I just
noticed that 1 TB hard drives are approaching "sweet spot" status on the
mass storage spectrum. Yeesh!
We need the volume!
Mike
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