That the record industry should try to raise revenue from live music is interesting in view of its responsibility for the virtual destruction of live music in the first place.

It looks like this is what is coming. New artist productions will be put in concert tours first, for a whole duration of milking, then after it will be available in other formats? Yeeah, I could live with that.

Just a question, are they going to attempt to tag a fee on the ticket price when you bring in your personal Digital gear at the concert?

...record companies now have '360' deals with artists, where they get a cut of the proceeds from concerts. That's where the real money is, with cds being more of a promotion. And since the companies now have a stake in the concerts they have more of an incentive to promote the concerts.

Now if they can only stop nickel-and-diming the artists so they aren't in the hole after cutting a record...

Time for record industry to turn back to having purely concerts...

Sorry dagbladet (and the domain .no) is Norwegian, not Swedish.

Altough Norway should be a colony of Sweden, that is not the fact ;)

You know it's Friday 13th when a record exec speaks common-bloody sense that has been iterated so many times over the last 5 years you'd given up hope of *anyone* in that industry accepting it.

Best batten down the hatches, the end of the world is nigh!