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January 4, 2008
Even Fools Don't Invest in the Music Business
Posted by Alan Wexelblat
Alyce Lomax has a piece on fool.com (the Motley Fool investment advice site) this week advising against investing in the music industry. The punchline:
a good sign of a dying industry that investors might want to avoid is when it would rather litigate than innovate, signaling a potential destroyer of value. If it starts to pursue paying customers -- which doesn't seem that outlandish at this point -- then I guess we'll all know the extent of the desperation. Investor, beware.
Although she's riffing on
A.R.C. v Howell, the language of which is subject to some disagreement, the core argument she's making is one that
many others have made.
The music industry is dead, or at least severely damaged, and certainly not the kind of thing someone who wanted her investment to grow would put money into. Lomax has three links in her current piece to earlier Fool writing detailing more Cartel foolishness. Good reading.
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1. kundu on January 9, 2010 11:19 PM writes...
how is music business dead and people still buy records ,artist still being born.
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