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星期六的新聞透視講香港非法下載音樂，大家有看嗎？沒有看，暫且看本人的簡述，不過記憶力所限，如有錯漏，歡迎留言更正。
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首先節目訪問了兩名大學生，她們說現時甚少買唱片，原因是「網上有」，「下載方便」和「選擇多」，不過非法下載有一個好處是她們現在聽歌的範疇比從前更廣泛。
接著是唱片監製的趙增熹，他認為下載音樂是股勢不可擋的潮流，用戶有更大的自由度，可以自行為歌曲編排過次序，「係我都鐘意啦」。
可是，雖然非法下載猖狂，有些歌星如容祖兒或At 17 的唱片仍有不俗的銷量。節目亦指出，本地歌手除了出唱片，還會靠接拍電影廣告增加收入。
因為網絡發達，造就了一些網絡歌手，如紅遍中港的《老鼠愛大米》或本地流行的《他約我去迪士尼》，在訪問中，他們覺得網絡給了一個機會發表自己的作品，雖然接踵而來有很多歌曲被侵權的問題，諸如未經授權便被人轉做鈴聲謀利。
末段訪問了英皇娛樂集團行政總裁吳雨，他對於搞類似iTunes 的音樂商店有所保留，「日日都有人來叩門，係咪真係有市場先？」「網上的歌賣晒咁點算？」「網上賣歌，不用印海報印唱片，好多人會失業」。
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嘩！睇完吳雨果副咀臉，真係把幾火！原來還是因為嫌網上賣歌無肉食，那又難怪吳雨不熱心，因為正如節目所說，歌手靠「副業」來賺錢，唱片賣成怎樣，也不重要，最緊要廣告商肯拍廣告。香港之所以未能與「國際接軌」，似乎是因為某些商人食古不化。
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13:01 on October 5th, 2005
P.S.如果有一日，吳生表示因為太多非法下載，公司嚴重虧損，我一定會同佢講「底X死」三個大字!~~~ Links: Yahoo! HK News:港人擁MP3機 7區之冠 七成每周非法下載 every little secret:上週六的《新聞透視》 MacGrass:狂！iTMS登日四天百萬下載！
14:56 on July 4th, 2005
網上的歌賣晒咁點算？
呢個絕！因為無人知道會點算。
15:00 on July 4th, 2005
吳雨的答法堪稱一絕！
至於我地囉，則就是「絕望」了。
20:35 on July 4th, 2005
「日日都有人來叩門，係咪真係有市場先？」 – He REALLY lacks serious entrepeneurial sense, doesn’t he know there’s something called market research?
「網上的歌賣晒咁點算？」 – WTFFFFFFF? Is this man from 1000000 BC.? I don’t know where he came to that conclusion, I cannot follow his reasoning at all.
「網上賣歌，不用印海報印唱片，好多人會失業」 – With the advent of sites like itunes, it doesn’t mean that advertising revenues will eventually cut down. In fact, quite the contrary, I think the record company and the advertising companies can work together, because mainstream media are still pretty ‘mainstream’, it’s not like that people nowadays only go onto the internet and don’t watch TV or listen to radio anymore. Songs and MTVs will still be played, posters will still be built, but itunes can also act as an advertising method, as well as a new distribution method.
I really do think that guy (吳雨) lacks serious entrepeneurial sense…but then again he wasn’t hired to do that kind of serious stuff, he was there merely to “clean shoes”. What a waster.
There’s no need to worry about the future of music distribution I think (ie. downloading music legally), because I think, as every societies on this planet was brought up in law, the majority of people still ‘don’t like’ breaking the law – like those students, if they can do all that, but at the same time being legal, I think they will choose to do that legally as well, “providing the fees are acceptable for the mass”.
It’s a well known fact that people buy pirates and illegal downloads isn’t because they like to challenge or disrespect the law, but either things are too expensive for them or they just don’t worth the money they cost. This also ties itself to the lack of legal education – mere moral education sometimes just doesn’t work.
This also says something about the record industry in the whole, not only in HK, but everywhere else – they make too much profit to keep itself sustainable in the long run.
Although we are used to be confined by geography, with internet we can explore more and more diverse music which would otherwise costs alot more money, I believe that the record industry can use the internet to their advantage, however a lot of things, including copyright laws, needs to be reviewed, which will take some while.
OTOH, given how good us HKers are at imitating things, when the west had completely developed this business, HK will follow suit.
00:25 on July 5th, 2005
如果要吳雨單靠唱片版稅維生，睇下佢有無咁「豪情壯語」？
港人版權意識薄弱也是個事實。大家都覺得夠平就得。
係呀，香港的版權法很落後，將CD rip 成MP3 自用也算犯法，這也可能是iTMS 遇到的阻力。