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Once companies get big enough their polices can be industry shaping, before Apple it was Walmart "On other CD's he has bought at Wal-Mart, record companies had
by joenathanone 5y ago
Once companies get big enough their polices can be industry shaping, before Apple it was Walmart
"On other CD's he has bought at Wal-Mart, record companies had removed songs or altered artwork on the covers to make them acceptable to the discount chain, although Adam said he was not aware of it.
Adam's mother, Arlene, said she did not like Wal-Mart's policy. ''It should be my decision instead of theirs,'' she said."
https://www.nytimes.com/1996/11/12/arts/wal-mart-s-cd-standards-are-changing-pop-music.html https://www.nytimes.com/1996/11/12/arts/wal-mart-s-cd-standa...
- lotsofpulp 5y agoThe difference from 1996, is that now Arlene can simply go to the artists’ website and buy the content directly with zero extra friction and bypass all of Walmart’s (or Apple’s) meddling.
- willis936 5y ago"Industry-shaping" doesn't seem so bad. "Art-shaping" provokes other feelings. Counterculture's lost its soul in the past decade. It's time to rekindle it.