Internet, Creation Killer?
on July 3, 2009 | Business | copyright war, suicidal music industry
Of course not. But that’s what lobbyists and lawmakers around the world are trying to shove down our throats with blind propaganda and obsolete moves.
Question: at a time when music was only performed by live bands, what kind of reception do you think phonographs received? “People are going to play the same music over and over! We live musician always improvise a little bit and will be out of business! It’s going to kill music!” It didn’t.
Fast forward to the invention of the radio. I’m sure the advent of a box that could broadcast music all over the world for no additional cost and without the intervention of an artist generated an outcry. And when audio cassettes came up, the industry whined that it helped hordes of shameless pirates record music, killing it as a result. It didn’t.
It’s time people learned not to listen to those alarmist cry babies. Of course they aren’t going to cheer the arrival of this (r)evolution: during a transition, only the smartest from the “before” will manage to make a buck in the “after”. Just remember that it doesn’t matter: by using their reasoning (change = bad), we wouldn’t have what we have – and love.
Music will always be alive and well; so will be the musicians. The people in the middle, peddling the stuff at a steep price, will have to adapt or disappear – it’s the golden rule of both evolution and business.
July 8th, 2009 on 2:02 pm
I totally agree with you. With Internet, there is a lot of change on the way we are doing business. And it’s changing for music too.
In the music industry, people in the middle like productions, have to change and start to realize that they won’t earn money as they used to be…
Let’s see how it goes for the couple next years ;)
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July 8th, 2009 on 7:15 pm
Exactly; change is part of the business landscape, no matter how uncomfortable it might be for the people at the top.
I definitely wish I could get a sneak peek at the future right now, just to see the faces the majors (who are still arguing they can’t compete with free) and RIAA and its minions (who are still prosecuting downloaders on the assumption that a downloaded song is a missed sale) are going to pull when they’ll realize/admit they were just plain wrong, and missed heaps of business opportunities.
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