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Music Industry
Death Watch
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- Sensing their imminent death, greed driven RIAA, major labels
and artists screw over fans.
- 2
- Facist Digital Millennium Copyright Act sends music industry
into a free fall.
- 3
- Vivendi Universal posts $12 billion loss in 2001 due to Universal
Music Group's incompetence.
- 4
- AOL Time Warner post $54 billion loss in first quarter of 2002
as stock price takes a serious dive.
- 5
- EMI lays off 1,800 employees and turns into industry laughing
stock.
- 6
- The "insidious virus" and alleged pervert known as
Michael Greene resigns from Grammys.
- 7
- RIAA screws over webcasters, effectively killing vital internet
marketing for artists.
- 8
- Hip hop takes over as rock music is put to death by dumb ass
major labels.
- 9
- Clear Channel screws up radio with idiotic and redundant music
programming.
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Clear Channel screws up concerts by scheduling shows at the same
bullshit venues, purposefully
skipping key cities and, therefore, losing key promotional opportunities
for artists.
- 11 -
Copy protected corrupted CDs cause music consumers to revolt
against industry.
- 12 -
Music sales declining rapidly due to lack of talented artists
and awful music production.
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Major jackass artists lose credibility and make fools of themselves
with tacky promotional stunts.
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Major labels online music subscription services dead on arrival.
- 15 -
Music industry backs misguided legislation which would only further
damage world economy.
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Major labels work with online partners who, believe it or not,
know less about music than they do.
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Impatient corporate types looking for quick buck destroy quality
artist development.
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- PS:
When the major labels and their bullshit copyright and webcasting
laws go down (the DMCA for one), the
artists and their music will go up - way up. Until then, enjoy
the silence...and the darkness.
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- We will
post more good news as it becomes available.
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