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On The Media Takes On The Music Industry
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| He is, of course, defending Billboard's
| obsolete "charts" which are still based
| mostly on CD sales and radio play, but just
| comes across as someone who doesn't even
| realize what he's measuring (at 43:15 on the
| podcast):
|
| "Right, okay, the one thing that does
| skew our ratings is that older people buy
| more music. They steal less music.... So
| like, you know, a Bruce Springsteen or a
| Madonna might overperform on the album
| sales chart relative to some more
| subjective measure of their popularity.
| But as far as like who's stealing what...
| I mean, what use is that?"
|
| And that, right there, is why Billboard has
| become so obsolete. It's lead by people who
| think that file sharing is "stealing" and
| that it's meaningless in figuring out where
| the money is in music.
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http://techdirt.com/articles/20091025/1241496665.shtml
Recent:
Apology for singing shop worker
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| Sandra Burt, 56, who works at A&T Food store in
| Clackmannanshire, was warned she could be fined
| for her singing by the Performing Right Society
| (PRS).
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http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/scotland/tayside_and_central/8317952.stm
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