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A brief history of record industry suicide
- brl 19y agoThis essay is fantastic! I wish I could vote it up 50 times. It's absolutely the best thing about the music industry vs. the internet that I've read since Courtney Love's rant 7 years ago.
- rms 19y agoThat Courtney Love rant was mostly plagiarized. Figures, right? The original: http://www.negativland.com/albini.html http://www.negativland.com/albini.html
- Tichy 19y agoBrief? That was the longest blog entry I have ever read on the internet. Some interesting points nevertheless, especially as I didn't know Oink before.
- ardit33 19y agotoo long.
- aston 19y agoI like to pirate music as much as the next guy, but I can't get behind arguments that go like "The music industry isn't giving us fair alternative to outright stealing music." Music is probably the cheapest it's ever been right now. Nobody buys $5 'singles' CDs because they can get the MP3 of it legally for 99c. Gone are the days where you need to pay $20 for a CD from a music store, since you can get all of the tracks for half that, assuming you're cool not getting the physical media (like cover art). Ultimately, music piracy happens not because the RIAA is mean or information wants to be free or any other positive sounding reason. We pirate music because we can and we won't get caught and we now have a bunch of moral arguments in our back pocket we can use whenever we want to feel like we're actually not doing anything wrong.
- brl 19y agoYou're not doing anything wrong when you share music. Intuitively everybody knows this already which is why everybody does it without thinking twice. File sharing is just not a moral issue and never has been.
- aston 19y agoYou're fooling yourself, man. Maybe it's because you're only considering music. Think about all of the software firms that make money only when people buy copies of their product. Is there nothing wrong with handing out copies of OSX or Photoshop just because it's easy? Both industries are trying to fight the same battle, that their product is now easier replicated than purchased legitimately.
- brl 19y agoIn any other industry if you can't make money because nobody wants to pay for your product (no matter what the reason is) it's because your business model sucks, not because you're a 'victim'.
- aston 19y agoPiracy is stealing, whether the music industry sucks at business or not.
- brl 19y agoThe music industry sucks at business, whether piracy is stealing or not. The moral debate isn't even very relevant here because regardless of whether downloading mp3s is stealing or impolite or a sin or whatever, in 25 years nobody will even remember that record companies ever existed.
- ced 19y agoPeople pay because they have to (excluding tipping), not because they want.
- pixcavator 19y agoAnother so-and-so-is-dead rant.