日批在线视频_内射毛片内射国产夫妻_亚洲三级小视频_在线观看亚洲大片短视频_女性向h片资源在线观看_亚洲最大网

USEUROPEAFRICAASIA 中文雙語Fran?ais
Lifestyle
Home / Lifestyle / X-Ray

Pay for free lunch

By Raymond Zhou | China Daily | Updated: 2013-03-31 17:55

The real product has shifted down the chain. Musicians still make money. They sell concerts and make commercial appearances. Singing one song may bring some of them revenues in the six figures. Emerging stars upload their new songs onto the Net in the hope of finding a wide audience. It is the record labels that are suffering. People who are not holding onto the old revenue model left long ago. Who'd want to be in a business of making sales brochures while being excluded from the business with commercial value?

Right now, the attention is on the fee-collecting process. Apple with its iTunes store has given hope to many. Of course, convenience and security of payment are important. So is reasonable pricing. The real difficulty is in the culture - habits nurtured through decades and accepted by a billion-plus people.

China has a musicians' association that collects royalties. The song Legend, one of the most popular in recent years, earned a total of 94.75 yuan in a year from the nation's karaoke segment. (And it's much easier to find a karaoke store in China than a public toilet.)

Liu Huan, the reigning king of pop music on the mainland, gets a royalty check that does not even meet the minimum wage of the capital city. That is equivalent to Michael Jackson earning $500 from his songs each month, and Thriller bringing him a whopping 100 bucks in a year. Sorry, I can't help being sarcastic.

I'm sure some users will gladly pay to download songs. The trick is, how much of the online population will change their habits to embrace this, and equally important, how much of that revenue will be funneled back to the recording industry, or what remains of it?

To restore commercial value to music in the digital form, piracy must be eradicated. One is organized piracy, which the government is obligated to aggressively prosecute - more aggressively than what's been done so far. The other is harder to root out because it is done on an individual basis and in the spirit of sharing. I can imagine the elimination of music sharing on portal sites, but how can you prevent it from popping up on private online groups?

Only when fighting piracy gets serious will alternative revenue models, such as monthly subscription, become genuinely feasible. Until then, Gao Xiaosong should probably keep up his gigs on TV shows.

Contact the writer at raymondzhou@chinadaily.com.cn.

Pay for free lunch

Pay for free lunch

 Hip is a 'smart' start  Translation misery

For more X-Ray, click here

Previous 1 2 3 Next

Copyright 1995 - . All rights reserved. The content (including but not limited to text, photo, multimedia information, etc) published in this site belongs to China Daily Information Co (CDIC). Without written authorization from CDIC, such content shall not be republished or used in any form. Note: Browsers with 1024*768 or higher resolution are suggested for this site.
License for publishing multimedia online 0108263

Registration Number: 130349
FOLLOW US
主站蜘蛛池模板: 久久av热 | 日本理论中文字幕 | 免费成人深夜蜜桃视频 | 欧美专区日韩专区 | 天天爽天天做 | 天天干天天透 | 欧美精品自拍偷拍 | 欧美一级特黄高清视频 | 人人看av| 日韩av动漫 | 亚洲成人一区 | 久久98| 狠狠干五月天 | av青青草原 | 欧美日韩看片 | 日韩免费在线 | 中文字幕久久精品 | 久久中文免费视频 | jizz国产在线观看 | 青青草原伊人网 | 老汉色av| 中文字幕av久久爽一区 | 69福利视频 | 亚洲国产精品99久久久久久久久 | 天天操天天干天天爽 | 亚洲人成人一区二区在线观看 | 肉感丰满的av演员 | 日韩在线视频网 | 欧美丰满一区二区免费视频 | 青青草国产 | 日韩欧美高清 | 日韩av片在线播放 | 久久精品中文字幕 | 国产免费av网站 | 天堂av成人 | 国产精品伊人 | 337p粉嫩色噜噜噜大肥臀 | 美梦视频大全在线观看高清 | 九九精品网| 亚洲三级国产 | 成人激情综合网 |