February 21, 2011 at 11:35One thing I don’t understand about the relationship between Google and copywriters
Not so long ago, news came to Habré that Google, at the request of the RIAA, Google began to introduce methods to combat “pirated” requests (see here ). Those. Google thoroughly bent under copywriters, obviously having lost a lot in both money and prestige.
RIAA, if anyone does not know - the main American copywriters from the music industry. Usually, they act in tandem with the MPAA - the main American cinema copywriters (and in the case under discussion, I think that MPAA could not do without the help). There are also rumors that Google has been going to launch its music service for a long time (by analogy with Yandex.Music), but in no way can agree with the copyright holders.
In general, the evil American bigwigs of the media industry are so cool that even Google can’t cope with them.
But one thing still bothers me.
Take a close look at the numbers. Google's turnover is something like 24 gigabytes (of which about 6 gigabytes of net profit), while it has something about 12 gigabytes of free money.
Now let's look at the so-called Big Four record labels for Universal Media Group, Sony Music Entertainment, Warner Music Group and EMI. In addition to Warner Music, all of them are part of large holdings and it is rather difficult to estimate their value, but some sources give a rating of 4.26 gigabytes for Warner Music and 2.2 for EMI - which, in principle, is not surprising, given the deplorable state of affairs in the industry (Warner for The year 2009 showed just 56 million revenue - compared with 6 billion Google).
Wait, wait ... Google was offering 10 billion on Twitter. For this money, it turns out that he could buy at least three of the four main players of this same RIAA, or even all four at once (if, of course, the antimonopolists allowed).
Attention, the question is: what the hell is Google bending for them?
In order to make a revolution in the music industry, Google just needs to take two steps:
1. Buy someone from Big Four, for example, Warner Music
2. Launch your music website with some kind of human model (freemium, for example, yes or even advertising)
???
PROFIT!
If Google at the same time saves the payment to the artists themselves, then all the other labels have no choice but to switch to a similar business model. They can, of course, sue out of habit, but while the trial goes on, they will simply go broke.
But Google, it seems, is not interesting. For some reason, he prefers to lose time and money on this RIAA. And it is absolutely incomprehensible to me.
RIAA, if anyone does not know - the main American copywriters from the music industry. Usually, they act in tandem with the MPAA - the main American cinema copywriters (and in the case under discussion, I think that MPAA could not do without the help). There are also rumors that Google has been going to launch its music service for a long time (by analogy with Yandex.Music), but in no way can agree with the copyright holders.
In general, the evil American bigwigs of the media industry are so cool that even Google can’t cope with them.
But one thing still bothers me.
Take a close look at the numbers. Google's turnover is something like 24 gigabytes (of which about 6 gigabytes of net profit), while it has something about 12 gigabytes of free money.
Now let's look at the so-called Big Four record labels for Universal Media Group, Sony Music Entertainment, Warner Music Group and EMI. In addition to Warner Music, all of them are part of large holdings and it is rather difficult to estimate their value, but some sources give a rating of 4.26 gigabytes for Warner Music and 2.2 for EMI - which, in principle, is not surprising, given the deplorable state of affairs in the industry (Warner for The year 2009 showed just 56 million revenue - compared with 6 billion Google).
Wait, wait ... Google was offering 10 billion on Twitter. For this money, it turns out that he could buy at least three of the four main players of this same RIAA, or even all four at once (if, of course, the antimonopolists allowed).
Attention, the question is: what the hell is Google bending for them?
In order to make a revolution in the music industry, Google just needs to take two steps:
1. Buy someone from Big Four, for example, Warner Music
2. Launch your music website with some kind of human model (freemium, for example, yes or even advertising)
???
PROFIT!
If Google at the same time saves the payment to the artists themselves, then all the other labels have no choice but to switch to a similar business model. They can, of course, sue out of habit, but while the trial goes on, they will simply go broke.
But Google, it seems, is not interesting. For some reason, he prefers to lose time and money on this RIAA. And it is absolutely incomprehensible to me.