2022年上海高级口译练习题：唱片业的难题

2022年上海高级口译练习题：唱片业的难题

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　　Music industry needs clear strategy and control over illegal downloads

　　It’s 4am in a hotel room far from home and you’ve just broken up with your

　　lover. Aside from the minibar, there’s no empathy on offer: not a soul to talk

　　to, no shoulder to cry on.

　　You update your Facebook status with news of the split. Seconds later

　　someone on the other side of the world sends your smart phone a digital version

　　of What Difference Does It Make?, allowing you and Morrissey to wallow together

　　in self-pity. Someone else sends you Paul Simon’s Fifty Ways to Leave Your

　　Lover, which cheers you up a bit. This may sound far-fetched, but the hope of

　　the music industry rests upon such connections. A future where songs are not

　　bought, but accessed via telephones, sent across cyberspace, and passed around

　　friends through platforms such as Twitter, is what is hoped will save music from

　　the twin ravages of illegal downloading and a lack of strategic direction.

　　The full extent of the crisis was illustrated with the news that EMI, the

　　label that gave the world the Beatles and Pink Floyd, faces the possibility of

　　break-up if it fails to find ￡120 million by June. The smallest of the “big

　　four” record labels, it has suffered from the battle between its parent company

　　and bankers over a ￡2.6 billion debt — despite a jump in profits and the signing

　　of 200 artists in 18 months.

　　“EMI are perceived to be in a terrible situation, worse than they actually

　　are, and that’s putting off some artists,” said James Sandom, manager of the

　　Kaiser Chiefs. “It’s a shame because they’ve got some great creative people and

　　are out to prove a point.”

　　The internet is the big battleground. Piracy remains rampant, with more

　　than seven million illegal file-sharers in Britain alone. Shops such as

　　Woolworths and Zaavi have collapsed, further depressing CD sales. Albums, which

　　bring in the most amount of revenue to record labels, have been hit by digital

　　websites such as Apple’s iTunes that allow users to “cherry-pick” their

　　favourite singles. Falling revenue has had an inevitable effect on talent.

　　“The number of artists getting signed is down 50 per cent from 2006,” Mr

　　Sandom said. “The class of 2003 and 2007, including Franz Ferdinand and the

　　Kaiser Chiefs, were able to build massive careers. There’s not been one artist

　　in the past three years, apart from Kings of Leon, given the backing to achieve

　　that success.

　　“There are a couple of the major labels that have made it very clear

　　internally that they don’t believe signing bands is a viable prospect. Solo

　　artists need less investment, they either work on the radio or they don’t.”

　　The desperate situation has pre-empted two radical approaches: labels have

　　invested in new subscription services such as Spotify, and artists have

　　increasingly moved towards corporate sponsorship.

　　“As an industry we’ve fought back from near collapse,” said Paul

　　McGuinness, the U2 manager who masterminded the Irish band’s current

　　multimillion-pound sponsorship deal with RIM’s Blackberry.

　　For the right band, Mr McGuinness said, “Record label funding can be

　　replaced by the right corporate sponsor. And falling CD sales can — hopefully —

　　be made up for by subscription packages.”

　　Feargal Sharkey, the former lead singer of the Undertones and chief

　　executive of UK Music, agreed. “Research shows that 80 per cent of 14 to

　　24-year-old UK filesharers would pay for a legal service. Quite clearly, this is

　　the direction in which we need to be heading.”

　　“By 2012 half of all telephones will be smart phones and we’ll see

　　impressive growth in ‘access’ music services such as Spotify,” Mr Ek said. “The

　　overall industry will be worth $40 to $50 billion dollars and, if you look at

　　how internet companies develop, there will be only a couple of really dominant

　　players. We hope to be one of them.”

　　If Mr Ek’s valuation is correct he will become a very rich man. The

　　entrepreneur reportedly co-owns 47 per cent of Spotify along with its

　　co-founder, Martin Lorentzon. But Spotify’s growth particularly its delayed

　　American launch, has been hampered by concerns that not enough users would

　　upgrade to its “premium” service.

　　词句笔记：

　　empathy:心意相通，共鸣

　　wallow in sth.：沉溺于

　　the twin ravages：双重打击

　　rampant：猖獗的，猖狂的

　　pre-empt：先取得，先占领，先发制人

　　mastermind：n.智多星;vt.巧妙策划

　　premium：n. 额外费用，奖金

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