Comments on: Radiowar http://shift6.net/2007/11/12/radiowar/ Youth, mobility and media Sat, 22 Nov 2008 12:14:32 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.2 By: Sharon Jackson http://shift6.net/2007/11/12/radiowar/#comment-901 Sharon Jackson Thu, 13 Nov 2008 02:01:42 +0000 http://shift6.net/2007/11/12/radiowar/#comment-901 q552wlnygpvjib2q q552wlnygpvjib2q

]]> By: Inma Martinez http://shift6.net/2007/11/12/radiowar/#comment-20 Inma Martinez Fri, 16 Nov 2007 23:16:09 +0000 http://shift6.net/2007/11/12/radiowar/#comment-20 Precisely. I advocate that one should pay for value received and not walk away not giving back. The band deserve our monetary recognition because, after all, it is their craft and how they make a living. Some people, driven by the wrong ethics, live with a different agenda... Getting music for free or paying £80 ($165!!!!) for it is an unsustainable polarity. Making music, entertaining people, composing songs that become part of the fibre of life and its memorable moments should be rewarded. Likewise, setting astronomical prices on this enjoyment, which is part of our popular culture, is shameful and should be more regulated. No one sells bread at $10 the baguette... Same should go for music and film... Precisely.

I advocate that one should pay for value received and not walk away not giving back. The band deserve our monetary recognition because, after all, it is their craft and how they make a living. Some people, driven by the wrong ethics, live with a different agenda… Getting music for free or paying £80 ($165!!!!) for it is an unsustainable polarity.
Making music, entertaining people, composing songs that become part of the fibre of life and its memorable moments should be rewarded. Likewise, setting astronomical prices on this enjoyment, which is part of our popular culture, is shameful and should be more regulated. No one sells bread at $10 the baguette… Same should go for music and film…

]]> By: Randy http://shift6.net/2007/11/12/radiowar/#comment-19 Randy Fri, 16 Nov 2007 15:36:47 +0000 http://shift6.net/2007/11/12/radiowar/#comment-19 Do you loose your good will if you paid $2.00 for the album? Really? Or do you feel bad for the people who think they got away with something? I always try to drop a dollar or spare change in the subway musician's guitar case ... if they are really good. I give what I think the value is I receive. I certainly don't get pissed at the musicians because I paid an no one else did, I get pissed at the people how recognize value and choose not to contribute - those who abuse the commons. Do you loose your good will if you paid $2.00 for the album? Really? Or do you feel bad for the people who think they got away with something? I always try to drop a dollar or spare change in the subway musician’s guitar case … if they are really good. I give what I think the value is I receive. I certainly don’t get pissed at the musicians because I paid an no one else did, I get pissed at the people how recognize value and choose not to contribute - those who abuse the commons.

]]> By: Inma Martinez http://shift6.net/2007/11/12/radiowar/#comment-7 Inma Martinez Thu, 15 Nov 2007 07:49:57 +0000 http://shift6.net/2007/11/12/radiowar/#comment-7 Marginal costs may allow the band to still keep a certain level of profit, but my concern is the eternal devaluation of free services. If I pay £2 for the album, and then I realise everyone's got it for free... the good will soon quickly evaporates. Music should be affordable, not 100% free. People should pay for it because there is human effort and creativity behind it, and there must be appreciation for such exchange. The price for CDs in the UK is absolutely above what most customers can afford and it is literally forcing many people to go for the pirate download, which destroys the eco-system. Releasing the album busker-style sent the wrong message to the audience... Nevertheless, I can envision a music industry where an album, in any format - digital , CD or blue-ray, is for free and people pay for live concerts and merchandise. I reckon this could bring the paradigm to a new level of appreciation, where live music becomes the real value and the music, acquired for private use or heard on the radio, become the marketing element for the band to bring their fans to a given venue. Madonna has been clever enough to understand this releasing her latest single for free on the MSN platform for Live Earth. Marginal costs may allow the band to still keep a certain level of profit, but my concern is the eternal devaluation of free services. If I pay £2 for the album, and then I realise everyone’s got it for free… the good will soon quickly evaporates.

Music should be affordable, not 100% free. People should pay for it because there is human effort and creativity behind it, and there must be appreciation for such exchange. The price for CDs in the UK is absolutely above what most customers can afford and it is literally forcing many people to go for the pirate download, which destroys the eco-system. Releasing the album busker-style sent the wrong message to the audience…

Nevertheless, I can envision a music industry where an album, in any format - digital , CD or blue-ray, is for free and people pay for live concerts and merchandise. I reckon this could bring the paradigm to a new level of appreciation, where live music becomes the real value and the music, acquired for private use or heard on the radio, become the marketing element for the band to bring their fans to a given venue. Madonna has been clever enough to understand this releasing her latest single for free on the MSN platform for Live Earth.

]]> By: Lucas Gonze http://shift6.net/2007/11/12/radiowar/#comment-5 Lucas Gonze Thu, 15 Nov 2007 04:19:10 +0000 http://shift6.net/2007/11/12/radiowar/#comment-5 Because they had virtually no marginal costs, Radiohead didn't necessarily lose any money on the pricing flexibility. To maximize profit they have to extract as close to the maximum that each person will pay. It doesn't matter whether some people pay $1 and some pay $10. Even the people who pay nothing don't necessarily lower profits. As long as these self-imposed prices are close (on average) to the maximum they will pay, Radiohead earns more with this style of pricing than they would with fixed pricing. The name for this is "price discrimination." Because they had virtually no marginal costs, Radiohead didn’t necessarily lose any money on the pricing flexibility. To maximize profit they have to extract as close to the maximum that each person will pay. It doesn’t matter whether some people pay $1 and some pay $10. Even the people who pay nothing don’t necessarily lower profits. As long as these self-imposed prices are close (on average) to the maximum they will pay, Radiohead earns more with this style of pricing than they would with fixed pricing.

The name for this is “price discrimination.”

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