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Newer technology made buggy whips and radio tubes unnecessary in the marketplace so the businesses behind them died. Are you making this analogy because you thi
by biot 14y ago
Newer technology made buggy whips and radio tubes unnecessary in the marketplace so the businesses behind them died. Are you making this analogy because you think newer technology has rendered music unnecessary and you think musicians and recording/distribution companies should no longer be making their unnecessary product?
Or is your viewpoint more along the lines that you still want them to make this so-called unnecessary product, but due to your "philosophical considerations", you feel that it's okay to take a copy of the product without paying the asking price?
- jeremyarussell 14y agoPerhaps the product he speaks isn't music, but the recording agencies. What do they need to exist for when social media has knocked big media off it's throne? In an age when the internet and torrenting have made the costs of distribution megs a minute (in a river of petabytes a second) instead of the legitimate costs of making an actual record (the big vinyls) or radio towers (actual radio, versus internet radio). The recording companies are what come to my mind anyways... shrugs
- AnIrishDuck 14y agoMusic distribution is an unnecessary service these days; people can and will distribute music freely when left alone. Music creation is still an unsolved problem. Previously, financing of music creation was tied to distribution. Now that distribution is unnecessary, we need to rethink how society should promote not only creation of music, but of all intellectual capital.