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Ah yes, The Right Thing. A well-defined category if ever there was one. This is kindergarten morality. Human beings will never stop creating art. They don't ne
by benched 13y ago
Ah yes, The Right Thing. A well-defined category if ever there was one. This is kindergarten morality.
Human beings will never stop creating art. They don't need a Media Industry.
There is no "we", and none of us control the future.
- ztratar 13y agoThrough iteration and the test of time, the media industry has a way of doing things that contains value. I think it's hard to argue against that, but welcome it if you can. We all control the future. We are the future.
- aredington 13y agoThe media industry created a way to sustainably undergo the capital expenditures necessary for high quality studio recording, and the mass production and distribution of physical media communicating those studio recordings. It extracted rents in the forms of usurous recording contracts, hugely divergent pricing from their costs, and avaricious assignment and stewardship of copyrights. Technology has reduced the cost of transmitting the information in recordings to the trivial level that serving someone a glass of water costs. A combination of technology and prior capitalization has driven down the cost of studio recording, both lowering the necessary a prior knowledge to record well, and putting excellent mastering tools in the hands of many at low cost. What precise value are the members of the RIAA providing today? Please demonstrate how these members provide an essential value that cannot be shouldered by individual artists (e.g. Macklemore & Ryan Lewis)