For #2, the 360 deal (and its variants) arose to mitigate this - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/360_deal http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/360_deal For #3, I think we

For #2, the 360 deal (and its variants) arose to mitigate this - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/360_deal http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/360_deal For #3, I think we consume books/movies so differently that what happens in the music industry has no effect on other mediums. The biggest change since 1983, for example, is that people today have the opportunity to hear any and every song they want all day, every day without having to pay. Sure, you might need to listen to a commercial every once in a while (Spotify, Youtube, Pandora, etc) but that's okay - you aren't a "pirate" if you use those services so it's cool. And you can go about your daily life while doing so - you can listen to 8+ hours of music at work today if you want and still get your work done. That didn't happen back in 1983 - if you got to listen to music, you'd share that music with everyone else in the office and it would either be muzak (!) or a radio station. You didn't get to have these deep niches and deep preferences that Spotify/et al allow. Movies though - that requires your full attention. Can you read a book while you code? Can you watch a movie while you do your company's books? It's just too different.