Alas, poor Blockbuster, I knew it well, and watched its original owner both give us a baseball team and gut it. Nothing good ever came out of that blue and yellow POS. I'll be first in line to dance on its grave.
It's nothing new. Corporations run through systems, and those systems are designed to resist change. That's part of what makes them successful. That's why every time something new comes around, it's demonized until the corporation finds a way to make money off it. Today, file-sharing is seen as the end-all to the RIAA and MPAA. Until they find a way to give the consumer what they want, then the technology will become vital to it’s success and they’ll bitch about how some newer technology is cutting into their profits from the older one they didn’t want to adopt in the first place.
Agreed that while Avatar did bring people out to the theater, it was for entirely different reasons. I don't make it out to the movies anymore, specifically for the reasons you listed. Whenever I DO watch something first-run, it's almost always bootlegged.
I just can't see theaters competing with home-brew stuff anymore unless they start giving audiences incentives to go. Avatar made use of 3D. Other movies are following.
I guess I see a future where everything that ISN'T 3D will be given the option to stream at home, kind of like how widescreen gave people reason to go to the theater when television first came about.
Hmmm, giving consumers MORE options rather than limiting them. I wonder how long until the MPAA and RIAA take notice? My guess is a before Hale-Bopp, but not till after Hailey's Comet.
I like to buy CD's because I enjoy the artwork and I like having an original disc. But not for $18.99 (in 2001 dollars, courtesy of Sam Goody's). That's why i wait a few years until they're going for under a buck on Amazon, then swipe them up for about $3.00 with shipping.
Much like how criminals are now "clients of the correctional institution." Which always invokes images of convicts in offices wearing three-piece suits and ankle cuffs.
Agreed on the MA being underappreciated. And on the house/techno hate. But the songs really do seem to carry the same structure. I dunno, maybe it's just me.
"If they would actually scout decent talent and promote it in a way that actually helps someone other than themselves they would be alright."
But that would be an admission that their way of doing things NOW is the reason why music sucks, which is something the record labels would never, ever do.
Give it time. If there's a way to get around the contracts, I'm sure they'll find a way to go directly to the consumer. Can't say I'm happy about it, but that's the nature of the beast.
Listen, if I want to convince some chick that I secretly helped Paul and Ringo pen the lost Beatles album, who am I to say I'm wrong if it lands her in the sack? Something something suckers and every minute.
Y'know who's the real culprit behind piracy? Nickelback.
I stopped buying albums around the time Nickelback got big because I was convinced the record companies had completely lost their minds. Since then, I've happily downloaded a truckload of albums I normally would have never paid for.
So as you can clearly see, Nickelback is to blame.
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I just can't see theaters competing with home-brew stuff anymore unless they start giving audiences incentives to go. Avatar made use of 3D. Other movies are following.
I guess I see a future where everything that ISN'T 3D will be given the option to stream at home, kind of like how widescreen gave people reason to go to the theater when television first came about.
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But that would be an admission that their way of doing things NOW is the reason why music sucks, which is something the record labels would never, ever do.
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I stopped buying albums around the time Nickelback got big because I was convinced the record companies had completely lost their minds. Since then, I've happily downloaded a truckload of albums I normally would have never paid for.
So as you can clearly see, Nickelback is to blame.
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