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I've heard this argument for a decade now. It still hasn't sunk into the music industry (though it is deepest there) and the efforts to create policy to prop up
by SoftwareMaven 15y ago
I've heard this argument for a decade now. It still hasn't sunk into the music industry (though it is deepest there) and the efforts to create policy to prop up Hollywood have only gotten more absurd.
Believing the entrenched players are going to innovate themselves out of this situation is just silly. It will take new entrants truly disrupting the space or we will eventually have to become comfortable with SOPA-like legislation (I am leaving out true revolution. I heave no idea what it would take to get my fellow US citizens off the couch, but I don't think this is it.).
- Ingaz 15y ago>>It still hasn't sunk into the music industry Last.fm It's not future of music industry - it's reality. Most of new artists I'm interested in - available "free". Some of them - also listeners like me. Keef Baker, SE. "Free" - in Russia it costs 5$/month. It must be 0$ in US and Germany.
- rickmb 15y agoYou're missing the option of copyright reform that will no longer protect the business model of the entrenched players. It may not happen in the US, were most of the industry resides and politicians are bought and paid for before they enter office, but other countries that do not have such a powerful copyright industry are getting tired of being bullied around by the US.