How did this file-swapping of music start that's strangling the music business?
Many of the geeks who were into the internet and all at college were Deadheads, used to swapping concert bootleg tapes and stuff that the Grateful Dead encouraged them to tape. So when they invented MP3 and all, these geeks didn't see anything wrong with file-swapping their music over the Net either. There you go. It's the Grateful Dead who stabbed a pointed dagger into the exposed heart of the music business. Damn, those hippies -- who knew they wielded such deadly power?
posted by Adam @ 10:53 AM
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Oh, I dunno Adam...
Did you ever see a flick called "Almost Famous?"
The Rock Journalist goes on a rant about big money and big business invading rock n roll and "killing everything we love about it."
Pro sports has gone the same way.
Maybe if superstardom and bling are forfit from the insudtry, and a modest living comes to humble musicians from touring, music might find an ounce of redemption, a purity of soul, that once was, but now is gone.
Think back, to before TV and mass media. All the way back to the trubadors of England, and even further to unknown entertainers of small villages. There folks never got famous or rich. They did it because they loved it. Modern poets still operate like that. I think it would be nice if music did too.
The carpenter gets paid for building the door, but he does not get paid for every time someone uses it.
Peace and Music, Man.
You guys are both right. If it hadn't been for file-sharing, Steve Jobs would never have come up with iPod. The music companies don't know what they're doing when a total outsider is showing them how to market music. They've ahd it far too good for far too long.
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