Being a used game retailer has it’s advantages. Gamers love new stuff. Because of that one way to fund their new lusts is by selling off their old. Awesome concept and business model until you consider more and more people are downloading games — that which you can’t return. GameStop, looking to keep from fading out of existence has announced via the BMO Capital Management Digital Entertainment conference that in earl 2010, the company will try...
Count me thoroughly impressed and disgusted by the actions that music labels and bass akwards governments will go to in the hope of preventing piracy innovation. If you thought certain “3-strikes” plans that kicked suspected, not convicted file sharers off the internet were bad enough, a new friendship forming in Japan may signal an even more daring assault on consumers’ rights. According to a report revealed by Elmundo, the Japanese government and one...
While the war against illegal downloads rages on between consumers and the organizations suing the pants off of everyone, one can easily see that this “war” will never end. It is and always will be a constant cat and mouse game. Many consumers however opt to avoid confrontations and instead go the legal route by paying for their digital downloads through the online media store of their choice. However, if you work for the U.S. government, prepare to sing a...
It used to be in the good ‘ol days (read: the last couple of years) if you like online music free of cancer (again…read: DRM), as well as indie music, eMusic was your one stop shop. They were the pioneers of DRM free music long before other larger online music stores followed suit. Even though eMusic wasn’t as big as other online music stores, the customers agian loved the large selection of indie music as well as lower priced DRM free music. Apparently...
Music experts and those that claim that the CD and the music industry are being destroyed by more consumer friendly digital means and P2P file sharing services have pointed to CD sales for years showing the declines that have swept (slowly) across the market. Many thought that the CD/music industry wasn’t doing that bad as April had year-over-year sales down only 9%. Compared to the even more gut wrenching 17.9% and 11.5% for YOY sales from February and March, I...
