Unions? Where do unions enter into this discussion? Or are you just kinda puking up general purpose U.S. Neo-con catchphrases as a placeholder until your talking points memo update arrive via IM from ShillCon?
There's an important point hidden in their expenses. The whole 'producer' concept is the key to understanding the label mindset.
Musicians make music. Producers make product, which is how the Labels view their wares. Once the promotions department is finished with it, it's a tightly controlled packaging of the artist's intention, using the closed feedback loop of chart numbers as an infinitely recursive mass focus group.
They still think in terms of physical objects: their entire philosophy, and their entire workflow is based around solid lumps of plastic and the vending thereof.
They don't know how to change, because all they know is 'product'. 'Product' isn't what's selling.
Between these headlong leaps to extremes, and your new found affection for 'reasonable assumptions', you're really losing your edge. Been a long week, has it?
In the beginning, Apple was the one with the plastic velcro on their cases for easy access to the card slots. PC's were the ones that voided your warranty if the anti-tamper strips showed *any* signs of human contact.
Apple was most emphatically *not* always locked down.
In the case of a (for want of a better term) celebrity musician, wouldn't the product being sold be Reznor (and his not unsubstantial skillset) himself?
We look forward to Hollywood leading the way to this new era of completely original creativity. They'll be getting right on that as soon as they're finished promoting 'Battleship: The Movie' and can free up some manpower, I presume?
It's worth noting that the cake is the middleman between the film maker and the audience; it will be claiming all ensuing revenue until the costs of batter, icing and oven time are fully recouped.
The amount of effort you put into being willfully obtuse for the sole purpose of steering the dialog towards whatever point you're attempting to make is truly impressive.
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No one will want to do a $100 million dollar scam anymore if filthy pirates are just going to rip off their methods for their own gain.
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Musicians make music. Producers make product, which is how the Labels view their wares. Once the promotions department is finished with it, it's a tightly controlled packaging of the artist's intention, using the closed feedback loop of chart numbers as an infinitely recursive mass focus group.
They still think in terms of physical objects: their entire philosophy, and their entire workflow is based around solid lumps of plastic and the vending thereof.
They don't know how to change, because all they know is 'product'. 'Product' isn't what's selling.
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Apple was most emphatically *not* always locked down.
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Cautionary tales, doncha know.
Unfortunately, many of my generation assumed they were instruction manuals.
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