1, Are you a man or woman?
2, Please let me know your generation. ( Are you a teenager, twenties, thirties, forties, fifties, sixties?)
3, Given your music life, do you buy CDs these days?
Do you use streaming services?
4, If you do, why do you want to buy CDs?
If you do, why do you use it?
5, What is the good points of these two(streaming services and CDs)?
6, What images of streaming services do you have?
7, In the long run, streaming services are good tools for indies musicians, because it is possible for them to get known by more people via streaming services. Actually, statistics showed that people know new music and musicians on the web page.Therefore, we don’t always deny it. Depending on how to use it, it is very useful. What do you think of it?
8, According to the statistics from Recording Industry Association of Japan, 18.4 % of people only rent CDs from rental shops like TSUTAYA. The percentage of people who use only streaming service is 3.1%. What is the difference between streaming services and renting CDs? Cost? Convenience?
9, By 2013, less and less people buy CDs, and the production rate decreased. However, in 2014, more and more people reportedly buy CDs again. What makes people do so?
10, What do you think should record companies do to sale more CDs?
11, There are many people who use streaming services in a wrong way. Should we punish them strictly? How?
12, Why did people come not to buy CDs? because of the price, quality of sound, or inconvenience?
13, Is it difficult for you to download music or video from the Internet?
14, Why do musicians think that streaming services are not good?
15, These days, CDs and records are getting popular especially among young people. What makes people get interested in them again?
16, When was spotify founded?
Answer : It was founded in 2006
Wikipedia < https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spotify >
17, How many users on users are there?
Answer: “We had an amazing 2014 at Spotify and owe it all to you, the music fans who listen, discover, share and celebrate music and artists with us every day of the year,” Spotify says. “And before 2014 turned into 2015, we reached 15 million subscribers and 60 million active users!”
Aldrin Calimlim January 12, 2015: App Advice < http://appadvice.com/appnn/2015/01/spotify-welcomes-2015-with-15-million-paying-subscribers >
18, If you are artist , will you permit people listen to your music on streaming service?
I will not permit. If I can sell my music at the same price as shop or iTunes, I want to permit. It is difficult to get money by contributing music to streaming service. I heard that it takes 300 downloads to buy a cup of coffee. I will not be satisfied with royalty late.
Some artist, for example Taylor Swift, also complain about system of streaming service. Taylor posted her opinion on tumbler.
"to apple, to love Taylor" on tumbler < http://taylorswift.tumblr.com/post/122071902085/to-apple-love-taylor >
19, Which will be mainstream in future CD or streaming service?
I think CD will be mainstream, because when we buy a CD, sometimes we can get some benefits, for example ticket that allows you to participate shake hands event. That arouse fans to buy CD.
20, When free download became illegal in Japan?
It became illegal on October. 1, 2010
政府広報ライン< http://www.gov-online.go.jp/useful/article/200908/2.html >
21, How much the total financial damage of illegal site to artist is in a year in Japan?
22, What benefit is needed to get interested in CD?
23, We often see a video on YouTube has been deleted. What is boundary between remained video and deleted video?
24, When was a heyday of CD?
25, Have you ever downloaded music illegally?
26,Do you know the app that allows you to listen to music for free ? Do you use?
27, How much money users on streaming service pay for a monthly plan, will artist be satisfied?
28, What percentage of revenue from streaming services artist can get?
29, How many streaming services are there?
30, How long copyright will be protected?
It might be useful to get an historical view of the issue by looking at the rise and fall of some of the big file sharing services as they were challenged by the music industry. Although the music industry, and artists themselves, were skeptical about what the Internet could do for them at first, they gradually started to embrace it as they gained greater control of it. From about 6 years ago, streaming started to seem like a reasonable alternative to, usually illegal, file sharing.
返信削除Although the article is a bit old now, it is worth taking a look at the Guardian article on the collapse of illegal sharing and the start of streaming: http://www.theguardian.com/music/2009/jul/12/music-industry-illegal-downloading-streaming .