Top 5 Tips To Save The RIAA And The Music Industry

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With the advent of DRM, the music industry is increasingly losing serious amounts of profits. Piracy is at an all-time high, and there’s no end in sight. What can be done to help the music industry save itself? Here are five things that it may just want to pay attention to, as sent in by a community member.

• Put money into Open Source iTunes killers, like SongBird for instance. Record industries need an app that works on all platforms so that everyone can enjoy and use them.
• Invest in BitTorrent and make it part of the iTunes killer. BitTorrent is the fastest platform, and most widely used. [Note from Chris: keep in mind that BitTorrent isn't a platform, it's a series of networks. But I get what you're saying here.]
• Hire coders to make your music available to work on ALL platforms, programs, and formats. Nothing is worse than not being able to listen to music you purchased on any media you want.
• Allow any and all stores to sell music; don’t just lock it down like iTunes does. [Note from Chris: It's not really about HOW I get the music than the fact that I just am able to GET it, period.]
• Profit! [Note from Chris: I'm not really sure what he's saying here. I mean sure, the record industry needs to make a profit, but in order to do that, it needs to increase sales. It can't afford to do things to increase sales without profit. It's a never-ending cycle.]

What do you think can be done to save the music industry? Do you hate DRM as much as I do? Leave me a follow-up comment, or send an email to me at chris@pirillo.com