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Name That Tune?
Posted by Rick Jessup, October 20 12:48 PM

An interesting article over at Wired.com is shedding some light on another small bit of stupidity surrounding the big label music industry. Just when you thought suing your customers as a business strategy was as stupid as one group could get comes notice that some of your favourite television shows may be coming to DVD with new music. That's if they come out at all, due to the often exorbitant licensing fees associated with the practice.

When Sony released the first season of Dawson's Creek on DVD it came not with the popular music the fans originally heard, but with new pop ditties filtering throughout. The reason? The original licensing deal didn't cover DVD sales, and the studios were asking for far too much. That leaves a choice of change the music or don't release it at all - a choice Universal has already been forced to make for their popular 1980's series 'Miami Vice' after acquiring rights for the music became too cost prohibitive. 'Creek' fans complained when they noticed the new music, enough to prompt Sony to place a note on the back cover of the pending second season DVD alerting fans that the music may have changed since it originally aired.

So a few years from now when we're all going over why the big labels are losing money and preparing to go out of business, it might be a good time to look back on a date when they added "removing the ability for fans to hear the music" to their long list of colossal brain farts.

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