What Will The Recording Industry Be Blaming For All Their Problems A Decade From Now?
from the or-will-they-not-have-problems? dept
At the very end of an NPR story about the decade since Napster there's an amusing quote from Eric Garland of online music tracking firm Big Champagne, where he says:A decade from now, executives may be longing for the days--when they could blame piracy for all of their problems.Indeed. "Piracy" makes for an easy -- if totally incorrect -- scapegoat. The reality is far different. As we've seen over and over again, those who learn to properly use file sharing to their advantage don't see any "problems" from file "piracy," but actually see it as a huge opportunity. That, alone, makes it clear that piracy has never been the problem, only a failure to adapt. And yet, as we've noted repeatedly, the industry itself is actually thriving. So that raises a separate question. A decade from now, what will industry execs be blaming their problems on? Or, will the old "blame game" execs have moved on, and we'll be in a new industry that doesn't even think of the challenges it faces as problems, but as opportunities?
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They won't even exist.....
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I agree for the most part ... but by then the record labels will have lobbied for indentured servitude and debtors prisons on unrecouped artists. So the artist will have to work for them or go to jail ... ;)
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That's easy
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Sigh, has all my work here to create a new internet word been for naught.
It's RAPORISTS, dammit, waving around their raporist rapiers and raping the innocent with their spurting raporgasms and all this.
But in the future? I think hari krishnas make a nice target. After all, who the fuck likes them?
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Greed knows no limits.
I guess they don't believe God's law of sowing and reaping is still in effect. But it is.
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Lets see...
They DONT KNOW TECH.
They DONT know whats out there.
They dont know HOW it works. They hire it out.
They dont know HOW a dubbing studio/sound stage works or ANYTHING ELSE..
So, trying to get them to change over is a pain.
They learned a few lessons from the past.
1. Quad dont wont if the customer AINT GOT IT.
2. 8 track?
3. BETA?
The STANDARD goes like this.
STEREO works on every format.
Stereo is cheap and easy.
Stereo is PORTABLE.
2 ears STEREO
CHEAPEST, Format of media we can USE, PERIOD.
A MEDIA FORMAT that will last more then 3 seconds. WE DONT like changing formats.
They WANT a format that YOU CANT COPY.
What they dont SEE/REALIZE..
1. you dont need a MEDIA anymore, WE have it and can MAKE our own.
2. PROTECTION hurts them and costs them TONS of money.
3. FORMATS, USE a GOOD original FLACC/RAW, and we can convert it to ANY that we have/need/want..
4. Just MAKE it available at a reasonable PRICE and we will FLOCK to your doors.
5. MAKE all your STOCK available...the NEW, OLD, ALL OF IT..
you will have BUYERS.
6. STOCK isnt a problem with DIGITAL formats..At this time you could convert ALL of it and store it in 1 small building. 1 small store could have access to EVERY album/artist/recording/.. out there WORLD WIDE..
You dont NEED to send ORIGINAL material out to stores in TRUCKS... hook up to the net and send it to EVERY LOCATION in 1 day. THEY, at the locations, can make TONS of copies for customers, and only need 1 VIRTUAL copy.
This goes for movies ALSO.
DROP the protections, the lawyers, the shipping, the COVER ART and you have SAVED 2/3 of the cost of the recording..SHOW it to the customer. DROp the price 2/3 and you WONT have PIRACY..
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Moreover, with the 1979 law recapturing and extending all copyrights about to expire, all the way back to 1917 or so, it will likely be decades before anything at all enters the public domain again. This benefits nobody but the mega-corporations which own all the copyrights and don't want anybody else getting any benefit out of anything without their getting a big chunk of money from it.
As I said before, greed knows no limits.
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Contracts make the reasonable price un workable.
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Do not understand Technology
Well, I am older than most of the parents and about the same age as Top Media Exec’s and Politicians (age 51).
Where have these people of power been all their lives, there should be some type of ‘real world test’ before
1- Become Parents
2- Run a large company
3- Run for office.
Until then we are in trouble.
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5-Profit
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* The industry execs will still be around, and
* Piracy will not be.
More than likely, it's the other way round!
But I most certainly agree that piracy is just a scapegoat. The record companies are in trouble because they are riddled in debt and are actively pushing away their customers and artists.
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Hopefully "The Recording Industry" will be dead
We are pretty close to being able to put all known American music going back 60 years or so on something like and SD card. Not long after that we will be able to do the same thing with movies. In a few years, driving to a store to pay $20.00 for a piece of plastic containing 12 songs (10 of them crap) will seem novel. I do not expect to ever purchase another CD or DVD but I will happily pay for non DRM'd content as long as I get to share in the huge savings media companies realize through digital distribution of infinite goods.
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Ooh! I know! Pick me! Pick me!
Why, player pianos, of course, which should be right about the time 3D holographic displays are in the market. You can bet someone's going to create a 3D holographic player piano to play Prince's "1999" in synthesized MIDI format (because everyone stopped buying mp3s due to corporate greed).
Ooh. Time to file a patent on this idea!
© R. Miles 2008. Steal my idea, and I'll RIAA your ass.
;)
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Canadians of course
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EMI
The last I heard was that Citibank was going to get though and was lining up buyers :)
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Two future concepts to blame
http://www.tuvie.com/reppo-ii-boombox-backpack-plug-and-play/
The freesbe
http://www.tuvie.com/broadcast-your-music-with-freesbe/
The Freesbe concept envisions people broadcasting their music to everyone and receiving music from others in public spaces.
"You can say that Freesbe is a Radio with a difference. It is really exciting to create your own radio network totally made by what others are listening. Its sleek black look adds to your style and you can easily hang it or keep it in your pocket."
The labels forgot to pass the memo to the concept designers :)
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Nightmare for the entertaiment industry
Pers onal projectors that can be weared by anyone and will display images and sounds anywhere LoL
Hyper connectivity with with broadband speeds everywhere, storage devices in the terabyte realm and crystal clear images and sounds.
People wont need ISPs they will be the nodes in the future carrying all that information.
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