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<blockquote data-quote="GSHamster" data-source="post: 5890800" data-attributes="member: 20187"><p>I thought the author had a very strong point when he talked about search engines funnelling traffic to patently illegal sites and then profiting off the advertising on those sites.</p><p></p><p>However, his attacks on things like Apple's 30% cut of legal music sales were far less effective. If he thinks Apple charges too much he can always chose to not sell to them. He can roll his own service or point of sale, or sign up with one of the businesses that take a smaller cut.</p><p></p><p>Second, he undercuts his own moral argument a few paragraphs above. Just like he has to pay sound engineers, roadies etc. Apple has to pay their own engineers and support staff as well as dev staff for future products. Just as the cost of producing music is not zero, the cost of producing iTunes, etc is not zero.</p><p></p><p>He also badly hurt his argument with that slide that shows that artists used to earn $2.50 of a $15.00 album, and now earn $2.50 of a $10.00 album. Is this not a huge argument in favor of Apple's effect on the market? The artists are earning the same amount of money, but Apple has cut the cost to the end consumer by 33%.</p><p></p><p>As well, his attacks on Youtube and Facebook are just laughable. He whines that Youtube and Facebook have made very popular sites so he feels that he needs to utilize those sites to be successful. And that somehow indebts Youtube/Facebook to him? He has the choice not to put videos on Youtube, or not to make a Facebook page. People still have browsers, they can still navigate to his website. If his website isn't as good as Facebook/Youtube, or he has to pay for bandwidth or technical expertise, well, that's the point of going with the professionals.</p><p></p><p>Finally, I think the essay would have worked a lot better if it had been better written. It was hard to follow his points as he jumped around a lot. And his tone was very arrogant and condescending, which did not help at all.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="GSHamster, post: 5890800, member: 20187"] I thought the author had a very strong point when he talked about search engines funnelling traffic to patently illegal sites and then profiting off the advertising on those sites. However, his attacks on things like Apple's 30% cut of legal music sales were far less effective. If he thinks Apple charges too much he can always chose to not sell to them. He can roll his own service or point of sale, or sign up with one of the businesses that take a smaller cut. Second, he undercuts his own moral argument a few paragraphs above. Just like he has to pay sound engineers, roadies etc. Apple has to pay their own engineers and support staff as well as dev staff for future products. Just as the cost of producing music is not zero, the cost of producing iTunes, etc is not zero. He also badly hurt his argument with that slide that shows that artists used to earn $2.50 of a $15.00 album, and now earn $2.50 of a $10.00 album. Is this not a huge argument in favor of Apple's effect on the market? The artists are earning the same amount of money, but Apple has cut the cost to the end consumer by 33%. As well, his attacks on Youtube and Facebook are just laughable. He whines that Youtube and Facebook have made very popular sites so he feels that he needs to utilize those sites to be successful. And that somehow indebts Youtube/Facebook to him? He has the choice not to put videos on Youtube, or not to make a Facebook page. People still have browsers, they can still navigate to his website. If his website isn't as good as Facebook/Youtube, or he has to pay for bandwidth or technical expertise, well, that's the point of going with the professionals. Finally, I think the essay would have worked a lot better if it had been better written. It was hard to follow his points as he jumped around a lot. And his tone was very arrogant and condescending, which did not help at all. [/QUOTE]
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