Comments on: The Universal Music award for excellence in customer relations. http://rocknerd.co.uk/2002/07/04/the-universal-music-award-for-excellence-in-customer-relations/ all the fits that's news Fri, 11 May 2012 11:20:17 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.4 By: David Gerard http://rocknerd.co.uk/2002/07/04/the-universal-music-award-for-excellence-in-customer-relations/comment-page-1/#comment-108 David Gerard Sat, 06 Jul 2002 01:13:07 +0000 http://rocknerd.co.uk/?p=353#comment-108 <p><i>"By the way, why don't record companies object to the massive amounts of second-hand recordings that are sold?"</i></p> <p>They do. Every now and then they think of something to try against the second-hand market. They recently put forward a plan to make a royalty payable on all second-hand recordings sold.</p> <p><i>"Hi Dave. How's Eng-er-lund?"</i></p> <p>The weather in London is identical to Melbourne. I mean, IDENTICAL. Except no forty-degree days in summer.</p> “By the way, why don’t record companies object to the massive amounts of second-hand recordings that are sold?”

They do. Every now and then they think of something to try against the second-hand market. They recently put forward a plan to make a royalty payable on all second-hand recordings sold.

“Hi Dave. How’s Eng-er-lund?”

The weather in London is identical to Melbourne. I mean, IDENTICAL. Except no forty-degree days in summer.

]]> By: ms45 http://rocknerd.co.uk/2002/07/04/the-universal-music-award-for-excellence-in-customer-relations/comment-page-1/#comment-107 ms45 Fri, 05 Jul 2002 22:50:50 +0000 http://rocknerd.co.uk/?p=353#comment-107 <p>Damn, I was gonna post this. At least I can confirm that it is an excellent article and gives many convincing reasons why file-sharing is in fact GOOD for smaller artists :</p> <p>"Let's take it from my personal experience. My site (www.janisian.com ) gets an average of 75,000 hits a year. Not bad for someone whose last hit record was in 1975. When Napster was running full-tilt, we received about 100 hits a month from people who'd downloaded Society's Child or At Seventeen for free, then decided they wanted more information. Of those 100 people (and these are only the ones who let us know how they'd found the site), 15 bought CDs. Not huge sales, right? No record company is interested in 180 extra sales a year. But? that translates into $2700, which is a lot of money in my book. And that doesn't include the ones who bought the CDs in stores, or who came to my shows."</p> <p>Janis, you go girl. </p> <p>By the way, why don't record companies object to the massive amounts of second-hand recordings that are sold? The overwhelming majority of my collection is from opshops, Dixon's etc. </p> <p>Hi Dave. How's Eng-er-lund?</p> Damn, I was gonna post this. At least I can confirm that it is an excellent article and gives many convincing reasons why file-sharing is in fact GOOD for smaller artists :

“Let’s take it from my personal experience. My site (www.janisian.com ) gets an average of 75,000 hits a year. Not bad for someone whose last hit record was in 1975. When Napster was running full-tilt, we received about 100 hits a month from people who’d downloaded Society’s Child or At Seventeen for free, then decided they wanted more information. Of those 100 people (and these are only the ones who let us know how they’d found the site), 15 bought CDs. Not huge sales, right? No record company is interested in 180 extra sales a year. But? that translates into $2700, which is a lot of money in my book. And that doesn’t include the ones who bought the CDs in stores, or who came to my shows.”

Janis, you go girl.

By the way, why don’t record companies object to the massive amounts of second-hand recordings that are sold? The overwhelming majority of my collection is from opshops, Dixon’s etc.

Hi Dave. How’s Eng-er-lund?

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