jarrekid wrote:I told my dad about this and he said the Keane concert he went to last night were doing this, at exactly £15. Interesting.
Way overpriced IMO,if you've just attended the concert you would have paid on average of todays ticket prices about £25,so personally you should get a "Concert exclusive price" of about £7 for a the CD...to spend that money on a ticket and then have to pay the full Price of a standard album is extortion..
Its like sitting in a Cinema and paying to watch the Film and then buying a DVD of it on your way out!!!!
I think that its the Artists taking advantage of Fans..and not beating the Bootleggers,because IMO Bootleggers aside a real fan will still buy the Genuine artifacts even if they have bootlegs,so really there creaming the Real fans by cashing in on something that never really existed from Illegal file sharing,anyone willing to pay to attend a show is gonna buy a CD of the artist
I have plenty of Jarre bootlegs I'd still go and buy them all if they were for genuine release and I'm sure most of you would also.So Jarre will still have not of lost out from Illegal Bootleggers..
Although you have the right to not buy also,but most fans will buy it on loyaty or some sort of false pretence that they have to,its like the Merchandise they sell at crazy prices like 25 quid for a £2 cotton T shirt with the Bands name printed on!!!!Its a joke and they should be regulated..
Any real fan would buy a Live CD irrespective of it being sold months after the Concerts or multiple bootlegs have been passed around,so IMO i don't see how distributing genuine copies minutes after the show would stop illegal distribution,whats to stop someone buying the CD after the Concert and then copying it onto the net for others who didn't attend to rip????By only selling copies to the attending Audience your already opening the illegal distribution to a wider audience as maybe 30 thousands fans attended,so in effect only 30 thousands copies sold to that audience,yet one person who bought it puts it on the net and 80 thousand people who didnt attend the concert could have access to it for free,so the Artists have stilll Lost out to bootlegging!!!
The way DM did it was to offer it as Digital Download on the net,which then isn't only allowing the Attending audience the chance to buy it ,but anyone who did or didn't attend it..so that stops filesharing across the net in a way
If you only sell copies at the venue,sooner or later a File share will happen on the net of it
It's definetly a way to curb it,but you'll still never fully beat the system..