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By: Tim MacDonald

Tim MacDonald — Fri, 03 Oct 2008 16:10:06 +0000

So i am a signed music artist with an indie label out of cincinnati, ohio and i am kinda involved with the music industry as well. personally after this article, i think taht zucker dude is stupid. i mean fa real, i think whoever is or isnt in the music industry we all know that no matter who bangs at the doors of sony ent, interscope records, captial recordings or any of those, we all know that the music industry is all digital. Even the equipment used to create the music is goin digital, for rap/r&b, pop, rock, or any other genre besides clasical. And it is digital cuz right when u run a recording, a guitar sound into a amp, or have music in the background it is converted into digital sound. BUT! This is where Zucker aint thinkin, distribution of peoples music these days, is through the internet which pops off Cd sales. Lil Wayne and TI is a perfect example. Do you really think they give a crap if their label drops them from everything? hell na, they still have millions of dollars comin in just from internet sales. If its their music trust me internet or not there gonna be gettin a cut of the sales in some way. With my indie label, our distributuin is mostly through digital distibution and to be honest i have made thousands of dollars off of it too. so trust me the internet aint hurtin the industry at all its helpin these people in the music industry get their name out more and bring in more revenue. Yea, the main arguement is if people are buyin digital music then that decreases sales in cds, look, they’d be surprised in how many ppl still buy cds. Cuz bein that our economy is bad, do ya really think that everybody has an mp3 or an ipod? hell na i aint even got one i jus hi jack my step brothers lol Not all cars these days have mp3 jacks either except the newer cars but even then can everybody afford a newer car? no. It all balances out and ppl are too into their money these days and when they are they try bangin at somebodies door wantin more. Record labesl are a great example too, they invest in the artist but if they know they aint gonna get a cut off the artist they aint gonna get signed. So think about all that

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Zucker: Apple of His Eye? | Kara Swisher | BoomTown | AllThingsD — Wed, 23 Jan 2008 01:06:17 +0000

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QUOTED | John Paczkowski | Digital Daily | AllThingsD — Tue, 22 Jan 2008 08:01:46 +0000

[...] of pricing — and if we don’t take control, they’ll do the same thing on the video side. – NBC Universal chief executive Jeff Zucker, Oct. 28, 2007 We’ve said all along that we admire Apple, that we want to be in business with Apple. We’re [...]

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Wed, 19 Dec 2007 20:51:51 +0000

[...] any event, it would seem that, contrary to the claims of NBC Universal Chief Executive Jeff Zucker, Apple hasn’t “destroyed the music business.” “While the market for digital music is growing, it’s growing slower than many would [...]

By: gareth farry

gareth farry — Mon, 05 Nov 2007 05:35:37 +0000

The web is saturated with articles and blogs about the death of the music industry & what Madonna, Radiohead and the like in collusion with web 2.0 digital models and P2P sites are doing to the industry … “killing it”?
But this IS the new industry … a place where the majority of content is created and consumed for free, where the creativity embodied on your musical content IS the value attributed to it.
A place where the merit in music conquers all. Or at least in the years to come it will.
It is my absolute belief that “where music leads all else will follow” .. that is the breakdown of the commercial music industry to elements of trade, file sharing, swapping & purchase will one day encompass our whole online commercial structure.
Merit and creative truth will rule, meaningless content (read “pop”) will simply become ignored meaninglessness, and it will struggle for any traction.

The sharing and spread across digital platforms of all online services and products will occur, with value being judged by merit. This will occur whether we are talking about a music track, a new product or a simple day to day service.
Advertisers will no longer be able to saturate our TV screens with useless products and thinly veiled lies about necessity – purchase value & immediacy will be decided by the purchaser.

ok, …. deeper : the human mind is a spark of the almighty consciousness of the creator, imagination and creativity are the doors from which this consciousness emerges.
As human minds develop further and become more fully tuned to the nature of spirit, by stopping thought, abandoning knowledge & trusting intuition, creativity also becomes more fully tuned to this truth. That is, music / knowledge / content / product is freed from the shackles of blind commercialism, prejudice or banality will simply cut through and gain traction by the simple fact of its creative merit.
The deeper the self realization of a person and his/her creativity, the more he/she influences the whole universe by subtle creative vibrations.

Silence is the potent carrier of the present tense. Every sound or action comes from silence & dies back into the ocean of silence.

Death to the music industry, long live the industry of creativity.

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Fri, 02 Nov 2007 11:57:26 +0000

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By: Ronnie Dan

Ronnie Dan — Wed, 31 Oct 2007 13:07:43 +0000

Zucker is hilarious. Next thing he’ll be banging on SONY’s door to get a share of the money they’re making off selling TV sets. With this mindset, he must be doing HULU just to see it fail, and make us all understand we should stick to the good old analog days.

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By: Eric Welch

Eric Welch — Tue, 30 Oct 2007 16:20:05 +0000

Considering that only a few percentage points of the music on iPods is from downloads – the vast majority of it being from CDs – you can bet that’s the subtext of Zuker’s threnody.

The man is surely smarter than that. He knows the intent of the music industry is to make us pay multiple times for music we buy.

They think copying the files from a CD to a computer to put on a music player is theft! They think recording a TV show to watch later is theft! They think fast-forwarding past commercials we don’t want to see is theft!

Did they every think about trying to create entertaining commercials?

Oh yeah, thats called product placement.

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