HOME TAPING IS KILLING MUSIC PART 67,356
Jan. 27th, 2009 04:07 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
defrogITEM [via BoingBoing]: Remember how Monty Python started their own YouTube channel in which they put lots of clips up for free viewing with links to buy the DVDs on Amazon.com?
Result: their DVDs are now No. 2 on Amazon’s Movies/TV bestseller list, and sales are up 23,000%.
Conclusion: YouTube is clearly killing the entertainment industry, just like the MPAA always told you. Because when you give it away free, people who like it go out and buy it. And that’s wrong for America.
Stan Schroeder at Mashable makes a valid point:
Cry poor,
This is dF
Result: their DVDs are now No. 2 on Amazon’s Movies/TV bestseller list, and sales are up 23,000%.
Conclusion: YouTube is clearly killing the entertainment industry, just like the MPAA always told you. Because when you give it away free, people who like it go out and buy it. And that’s wrong for America.
Stan Schroeder at Mashable makes a valid point:
I’m not implying that everyone who owns copyrighted content should give everything for free and simply hope that the fans will send them money. But I am saying you can’t have it both ways; you can’t control, monitor and bully users on the ISP level, and reap benefits from free redistribution of content at the same time. Sooner or later, the entertainment industry will have to choose.
Cry poor,
This is dF
