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> Before Napster, to hear whatever you wanted, whenever you wanted, you had to pay for it Huh? "Home Taping is Killing Music" Was the slogan on every LP and t
by anexprogrammer 10y ago
> Before Napster, to hear whatever you wanted, whenever you wanted, you had to pay for it
Huh? "Home Taping is Killing Music" Was the slogan on every LP and tape, and played before every film, in the late 70s and 80s. It wasn't and it didn't. We had crappy ghetto blasters with 2x speed twin tape decks from every Japanese manufacturer designed for tape copying (not that anyone in their right mind copied anything at fast speed). We'd record tracks off the Rock Show on the radio and trade tapes in the playground. We'd borrow LPs to tape, regularly. 95% of my music was on copied tape. None of us could afford to buy all the vinyl we wanted.
Then CD burners came along and copying was so much easier - long before Napster. Just don't let the screensaver or print job kick in if you were on a Windows PC as it'd wreck the burn.
2 generations have been used to having free music, despite what the streamers may wish I doubt YT Red etc will make much of a dent. I'd imagine most will go back to torrents, or step up from CD copying and trade libraries with friends. Those likely to pay are those with Sonos or other home streaming hifi. If streaming becomes difficult to access there'll be a YIFY/Popcorn Time type site along any moment.
TL;DR Does the headline end with a question? The answer is no.
- pessimizer 10y ago> Those likely to pay are those with Sonos or other home streaming hifi. To be more specific, geriatric and upper middle class. edit: I actually think that music torrenting is dying because habitual torrenters all have all of the music that they want. The next logical step is to spend $20 on a hard drive and give that entire collection to a friend. Or $80 if you're a fiend for flacs.
- ghaff 10y agoI'm not in the acquire a lot of new music demographic any longer, but I guess I assume that people must trade their music collections around. I sure would have in college with today's technology. I get that a lot of people use streaming these days but when you can trade around a few thousand songs basically for free..
- selfsimilar 10y agoBut you still paid for it, at least a little bit. Blank media was taxed against piracy with the 'Private copying levy'[1]. It wasn't perfect (and could never be) since they simply tied payouts to chart position, but at least the artists still got _something_ when copies were made. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Private_copying_levy https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Private_copying_levy
- ghaff 10y agoNot in the US for the most part. It was never enacted for tape and "only applies to CDs which are labeled and sold for music use" (which I'm not sure I've ever actually seen one of).
- KON_Air 10y agoThat quote prevented me from reading the article. Even in its hey day Napster wasn't "the source".